On this special episode, 24 Frames Producer and comic enthusiast, Daniel Ballard interviews Art Spiegelman, comic artist, about comics before his appearance on October 21 at Texas Tech University for the Presidential Lecture Series.
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Art Spiegelman has almost single-handedly brought comic books out of the toy closet and onto the literature shelves. In 1992, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his masterful Holocaust narrative Maus— which portrayed Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. Maus II continued the remarkable story of his parents’ survival of the Nazi regime and their lives later in America. His comics are best known for their shifting graphic styles, their formal complexity, and controversial content.