The Chicago Public Library’s One Book, One Chicago program, now in its 21st year, has asked the city to read familiar favorites (ā€œPride and Prejudiceā€), harrowing memoirs (Elie Wiesel’s ā€œNightā€), ...
Art Spiegelman didn’t set out to write an educational aid for young-adult readers. A half-century ago, he simply wanted to better know his own origin story, discover more about his parents’ histories ...
After a Tennessee county school system banned his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, author and illustrator Art Spiegelman will speak virtually at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. The book "Maus," ...
Two editions of Art Spiegelman's graphic novel "Maus," about his parents' experiences during the Holocaust, have become bestsellers after being banned by a Tennessee school board earlier this month.
Award-winning graphic novel ā€œMausā€ by Art Spiegelman, which depicts the atrocities experienced by Jews imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps, topped Amazon’s best-seller list over the weekend in the ...
Celebrated comics author Art Spiegelman said that, ā€œon the malevolence-to-ignorance scale,ā€ the Tennessee school board that voted in January to remove his book ā€œMausā€ was ā€œcloser to ignorance.ā€ At the ...
From his father, a Holocaust survivor, cartoonist Art Spiegelman learned how to best utilize the limited space in a suitcase, knowledge that he then applied to his hand-drawn panels, where information ...
The cover of the graphic novel "Maus" by Art Spiegelman. (Maro Siranosian/Getty Images) The American Library Association has dubbed next week, Oct. 1 through Oct. 7, as Banned Book Week, a time to ...
We revisit our conversation with cartoonist Art Spiegelman who finds art in disorder and catastrophe. It was his muse when he wrote Maus, the graphic novel that earned him a Pulitzer. The author takes ...