Art Spiegelman | The New York Review of Books

Foolish Questions

The subversive joy and nonsense of comics

SCREWBALL!: The Cartoonists Who Made the Funnies Funny

by Paul C. Tumey

The Art of Rube Goldberg

an exhibition at the Museum of Pop Culture, Seattle, February 11–April 23, 2017; the Grand Rapids Art Museum, May 21–August 27, 2017; Citadelle Art Foundation and Museum, Canadian, Texas, September 15–November 26, 2017; the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, March 15–July 8, 2018; the Portland Public Library, Portland, Maine, August 3–September 22, 2018; the National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, October 12, 2018–January 21, 2019; the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science, April 28–July 21, 2019; and the Queens Museum, October 6, 2019–February 9, 2020

March 12, 2020 issue

Drawing the Holocaust

This is the second of two excerpts from *MetaMaus*, Art Spiegelman’s new book of conversations with Hillary Chute about the making of his *Maus* books.

October 21, 2011

Why Mice?

Twenty-five years ago, Art Spiegelman published the first of his *Maus* books—a pair of graphic novels about the experiences of the author’s father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats. Maus II was awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1991—the only graphic novel ever to win—and both books continue to move and provoke readers. In his new book *MetaMaus*, Spiegelman talks with Hillary Chute, a professor of English at the University of Chicago, about how the *Maus* books came into being. What follows is the first of two excerpts from their conversation.

October 20, 2011