The Iconic Artist Behind A 300-Page Graphic Novel On The Holocaust

The Iconic Artist Behind A 300-Page Graphic Novel On The Holocaust
Der US-amerikanische Comiczeichner Art Spiegelman posiert am Freitag (21.09.12) im Museum Ludwig in Koeln bei einer Pressevorbesichtigung der Ausstellung "CO-MIX. Art Spiegelman. Eine Retrospektive von Comics, Zeichnungen und uebrigem Gekritzel" vor einer Darstellung des Bildes "Selbstportraet mit Maus Maske aus Maus II" aus dem Jahr 1989. Die Ausstellung ist ab Samstag (22.09.12) oeffentlich zugaenglich. (zu dapd-Text) Foto: Hermann J. Knippertz/dapd
Der US-amerikanische Comiczeichner Art Spiegelman posiert am Freitag (21.09.12) im Museum Ludwig in Koeln bei einer Pressevorbesichtigung der Ausstellung "CO-MIX. Art Spiegelman. Eine Retrospektive von Comics, Zeichnungen und uebrigem Gekritzel" vor einer Darstellung des Bildes "Selbstportraet mit Maus Maske aus Maus II" aus dem Jahr 1989. Die Ausstellung ist ab Samstag (22.09.12) oeffentlich zugaenglich. (zu dapd-Text) Foto: Hermann J. Knippertz/dapd

It is a lot of work looking back, the artist Art Spiegelman recently said, over a breakfast of fruit and meringues at the Jewish Museum.

"It's not being coy to say I really tried to get out of this," he said of the exhibition, "Art Spiegelman's Co-Mix: A Retrospective," which opens Friday. "It's very hard for me to look at the work in a way that makes it meaningful to me, because I've already had to process it so much."

Mr. Spiegelman, 65 years old and a native New Yorker, is best known for "Maus," a 300-page graphic novel about his father surviving the Holocaust. Published in two volumes in 1986 and 1991, it recounts in comic-book form the experience of his parents living in Nazi-occupied Poland and later at Auschwitz, as well as the younger Mr. Spiegelman's complicated relationship with his father, Vladek. It received a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992.

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