Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse

  • 3 panels of a very trippy, rather scary, 4-color cartoon by Art Spiegelman.
  • An elderly white man with white hair & beard who goes by the name of Art Spiegelman

“Spiegelman’s beautiful, haunting work continues to resonate today.” – Indiewire
“Spiegelman’s biography and his imagination are anything but ordinary.” – Hyperallergic

Co-Presented by The Cartoon Art Museum

Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel MAUS is a landmark in reckoning with the Holocaust and breakthrough in serious comic art. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at DOC NYC 2024, ART SPIEGELMAN: DISASTER IS MY MUSE provides intimate access to the man and mind who revolutionized the art form of comics. See how he grapples with autobiography in his work, his complicated relationship with his Auschwitz-surviving father, as well as his personal struggles upon receiving success and praise for his books about the Holocaust.

MAUS and MAUS II were seminal works about the Jewish experience and the Holocaust, not only in its radical depiction in form, but also in Art’s struggle in how to tell this story through extraordinary honesty, humor and disclosure. Then, in 2022, Spiegelman found himself at the center of the book banning controversy in America, as a Tennessee school board voted to remove MAUS from schools.

DISASTER IS MY MUSE reminds us why Art and his work are crucial to coming to grips with the darkest chapter of history, anti-Semitism, and current attempts to erase the past.

Featuring Art Spiegelman, Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Françoise Mouly, Charles Burns, Joe Sacco, Molly Crabapple, J. Hoberman, Ken Jacobs, Najda Spiegelman, Dash Spiegelman, and MORE.

Runtime
1h 38m
Format
DCP
First Showing
February 28, 2025
Categories

Showtimes

Friday, February 28, 2025 6:30 PM
Location Little Roxie
Saturday, March 1, 2025 3:40 PM
Location Roxie Theater
Wednesday, March 5, 2025 6:15 PM
Location Little Roxie

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