Art Spiegelman,
Self-Portrait with Maus Mask, 1989 (Copyright © 1989 by Art Spiegelman. Used by permission of the artist and The Wylie Agency LLC)
Thanks to the dense fog currently blanketing Toronto, comic-book legend Art Spiegelman’s plane was re-routed from the downtown island airport to Pearson International Airport. Luckily, a fan recognized the New York comic-book legend and gave him a lift into the city in time for a press conference at the Art Gallery of Ontario, launching the exhibition Art Spiegelman’s CO-MIX: A Retrospective. Later, Spiegelman joked with AGO director and CEO Matthew Teitelbaum that comics artists are “as famous as badminton players.”
While Spiegelman’s face may not be familiar to many beyond the world of underground comix aficionados, his body of work has influenced a large cross-section of popular culture, from his 1992 Pulitzer Prize–winning illustrative narrative Maus (he “disproves” of the term “graphic novel”) and his illustrated New Yorker covers to his snot-nosed Garbage Pail Kids trading cards.
Art Spiegelman’s CO-MIX: A Retrospective, which opens tonight, and runs at the AGO until March 14, features more than 300 works on paper, including early sketches, original Maus manuscripts, and book illustrations. Spiegelman returns to Toronto on Jan. 26 for a lecture titled “What the %@&*! Happened to Comics?” at Bloor Docs Cinema. There is also an accompanying book, published by Drawn & Quarterly.
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- Lead Pipe Sunday no. 2 (detail) lithograph, 1997 (Copyright © 1997 by Art Spiegelman. Used by permission of the artist and The Wylie Agency LLC. Courtesy Drawn & Quarterly)
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- Study for Maus II, A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began.<br /> Pen, pencil and correction fluid on<br /> paper, 1985 (Copyright © 1985 by Art Spiegelman. Used by permission of the artist and The Wylie Agency LLC)
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- Short Order Comix no. 1, final cover in colour, 1973 (Copyright © 1973 by Art Spiegelman. Used by permission of the artist and The Wylie Agency LLC. Courtesy Drawn & Quarterly)
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- Cover art for Print magazine, May/June 1981. Watercolour, ink, and collage on paper (Copyright © 1981 by Art Spiegelman. Used by permission of the artist and The Wylie Agency LLC. Courtesy Drawn & Quarterly)
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- Self-Portrait with Maus Mask, The Village Voice, cover, June 6, 1989. Ink and correction fluid on paper (Copyright © 1989 by Art Spiegelman. Used by permission of the artist and The Wylie Agency LLC. Courtesy Drawn & Quarterly)
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- Original art for RAW no. 7: The Torn-Again Graphix Mag, 1985 (Copyright © 1985 by Art Spiegelman. Used by permission of the artist and The Wylie Agency LLC)
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