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Art Spiegelman
American
Artist
About the author
Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk.
Art Spiegelman,
American
Artist
#Talk
With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.
Art Spiegelman,
American
Artist
#Work
#Trust
#Worth
#Measure
I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory.
Art Spiegelman,
American
Artist
#Trying
I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.
Art Spiegelman,
American
Artist
#Beginning
Some of the reviewers wanted less. Some wanted lots more. Some wanted lots more of something else. But these strips are exactly what they are.
Art Spiegelman,
American
Artist
Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.
Art Spiegelman,
American
Artist