![]() ![]() (He got up in the middle of the same event and went outside to smoke a cigarette, leaving me facing an empty chair, and a packed house.) It’s true that Spiegelman “speaks”-and draws-the unspeakable in Maus. “For one thing, the unspeakable gets spoken within 10 minutes, by me if nobody else,” Spiegelman quipped. “Maybe vulgar, semiliterate, unsubtle comic books are an appropriate form for speaking of the unspeakable.” It came to him around the time he started making comics about the Holocaust, which would eventually lead to his two-volume, Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, Maus: A Survivor’s Tale.įorty years later, at an event where I was interviewing him, I asked about that quote. “Maybe Western civilization has forfeited any right to literature with a big ‘L,’” he wrote. ![]() In the 1970s, the cartoonist Art Spiegelman jotted down a thought in a notebook. ![]()
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