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xxiii, 318 pages : 24 cm, \"Comics have a pipeline to something very basic about the way people think.\" When the graphic novel Maus: A Survivor's Tale won a Special Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for its vivid depiction of the Holocaust and its effects, critics and mainstream audiences recognized that a comic book was capable of exploring complex aesthetic, moral, and cultural themes. Maus's creator Art Spiegelman (b. 1948) became the most famous alternative cartoonist in America. Art Spiegelman: Conversations reveals an artist who had long been working to establish comics as a serious art form. With his wife Françoise Mouly, he founded and edited RAW-the most in-fluential showcase for avant-garde comics in America-which published early work by such well-established cartoonists as Chris Ware, Kaz, and Gary Panter. Spiegelman's essays and lectures helped to establish that comics have a history and a canon. This collection of interviews and profiles spans 1976-2006 and covers Spiegelman's career as an artist, critic, educator, and art historian. A previously unpublished interview conducted by the volume's editor discusses themes rarely touched upon in earlier profiles. - Publisher, Includes bibliographical references and index, Art Spiegelman / Alfred Bergdoll -- RAW Magazine : an interview with Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly / Dean Mullaney -- Slaughter on Greene Street : Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly talk about RAW / Gary Groth, Kim Thompson, and Joey Cavalieri -- Art's father, Vladek's son / Lawrence Weschler -- From Mickey to Maus : recalling the genocide through cartoon / Graham Smith -- Interview with Art Spiegelman / Roger Sabin -- Art mimics life in the death camps / Michael Fathers -- The cultural relief of Art Spiegelman : a conversation with Michael Silverblatt / Michael Silverblatt -- The man behind Maus : Art Spiegelman in his own words / Chris Goffard -- Art Spiegelman / Noami Epel -- \"Word and pictures together\" : an interview with Art…