A retrospective of comics, drawings, and scraps by Art Spiegelman opens at Museum Ludwig

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Art Spiegelman, "Valentine's Day". Gouache. Sketch for the Cover of The New Yorker. February 15, 1993 COLOGNE.- In January 2012 the celebrated cartoonist, artist, and Pulitzer Prize winner Art Spiegelman received a prestigious award for his life’s work: the Grand Prix of the city of Angoulême, France—famed as the “city of comics” on account of its Festival international de la bande dessinée. To mark this award for Spiegleman’s life work, the first major retrospective to encompass his entire oeuvre has been organized in Europe. Taking center stage will be of course Maus, the now legendary comic-strip novel recounting how Spiegelman’s Polish Jewish parents survived the Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps under dramatic circumstances. In Maus Spiegelman acquainted young people with the mass-murder of the Jews by addressing his audience in the medium that had taught him so much in his own youth—the comic strip. The book achieved success worldwide and now ranks as a modern classic. Spiegelman was later acclaimed for his graphic novel In the S ... More