A 70 min. Presentation By Art Spiegelman Followed By A Brief Q & A.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

MOCAD presents as part of its current exhibit

Art Spiegelman: Portrait of the artist as a Young %@&*!

Art Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman came out of the politically charged era for comics of the 1960s and 1970s, and kept the movement’s momentum for the past forty years. During his early years, he contributed to underground comic publications such as “Real Pulp” and “Young Lust”, as well as co-created the acclaimed comic magazine, “Raw”.

In 1986, “Raw” launched his career into foresight with “Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale” the true story of his family’s experience in Germany during the Holocaust in which Nazi’s were cats and Jewish families were mice. With this publication he was able to give a serious political edge that comic readers craved.

In 1992, he published the second half of the story “Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began” which led to a major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and earned him a Pulitzer Prize. Also in that year he began to work at the New Yorker, helping to create some of the most controversial covers in the magazine’s history.

Speigelman left the New Yorker in 2004, after 10 years, to protest the “widespread conformism” that he believed the magazine was linked to. This was fresh after he created one of the most memorable covers in the magazine’s history of the Twin Towers. In 2005 he was named one of Time Magazine’s “Top 100 Most Influential People”.

Recently, Spiegelman has re-released the 1978 edition of his anthology BREAKDOWNS, in which he includes an autobiographical comix-format introduction entitled, “Portrait of the Artist As A Young %@&*!” as well as a children’s book called “Jack and the Box”.

Tickets: $7.00
Presentation begins at 7PM sharp
Available Seating is limited to 200 persons.
Tickets are available at the MOCAD bookstore.
Call (313) 832-6622 or email info@mocadetroit.org for more information.
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