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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 343

Art Spiegelman

Palestinian lawyer-activist Raja Shehadeh reacts during a session on Writing and Resistance, at the Jaipur Literature Festival in Jaipur, in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, India, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
November 15, 2023, 6:28 pm
Jewish sponsor withdraws from National Book Awards over ‘planned’ Gaza statement
Publisher Zibby Owens says she pulled out after failing to receive assurances from organizers that winners wouldn’t make speeches that ‘promote pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel agenda’
By Andrew Lapin
School board members in McMinn County, Tennessee, objected to Art Spiegelman's 'Maus' because of its language and images. (Philissa Cramer/JTA)
June 22, 2023, 3:25 am
Following criticism, Missouri school board votes not to ban Holocaust book ‘Maus’
Nixa Public Schools to keep Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel on the shelves, after considering removal because of new law barring ‘explicit sexual material’ for students
By PHILISSA CRAMER and Andrew Lapin
Artwork from Art Spiegelman's 'Maus.' (Courtesy/Pantheon & Schocken Books)
June 15, 2023, 7:50 pm
Missouri school district to debate ban of ‘Maus’ over potential ‘sexual material’
Art Spiegelman, author of Holocaust graphic novel, leading fight against possible move at district of 6,000 students: ‘Book burning leads to people burning’
By Andrew Lapin
School board members in McMinn County, Tennessee, objected to Art Spiegelman's 'Maus' because of its language and images. (Philissa Cramer/JTA)
November 17, 2022, 9:11 am
Holocaust books, including ‘Maus,’ pulled from some Missouri schools over state law
Amendment allows criminal penalty for providing ‘explicit sexual material’ to students; Holocaust books often included in bans initiated by right-wing groups
By Andrew Lapin
This undated image shows cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who will receive an honorary National Book Award this fall. He will be the first cartoonist to win the Distinguished Contributions to American Letters medal from the National Book Foundation, which previously has awarded Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Robert Caro. (Nadja Spiegelman via AP)
September 9, 2022, 6:03 pm
‘Maus’ creator Art Spiegelman to receive honorary US National Book Award
Foundation says cartoonist ‘captured world’s imagination’ with graphic novels. His ‘groundbreaking work has shown us the limitless possibilities for comics as a literary art form’
By Hillel Italie
Art Spiegelman during a remote speech about his book 'Maus' being removed from a Tennessee school board's curriculum on February 7, 2022. (Screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 8, 2022, 5:33 am
Art Spiegelman blames ‘political headwinds’ for removal of ‘Maus’ from curriculum
Jewish author of iconic Holocaust book tells Tennessee religious groups that area school’s decision motivated by authoritarian bent, petty issues among parents
By Luke Tress
Artwork from Art Spiegelman's 'Maus.' (Courtesy/Pantheon & Schocken Books)
January 28, 2022, 11:25 pm
Tennessee school board’s removal of ‘Maus’ sparks local backlash, book giveaway
After district jettisons iconic Holocaust graphic novel, a comic book store vows to give out free copies, church plans discussion on its themes and a professor pledges free classes
By Andrew Lapin
School board members in McMinn County, Tennessee, objected to Art Spiegelman's 'Maus' because of its language and images. (Philissa Cramer/JTA)
January 27, 2022, 8:50 am
Tennessee school board removes iconic Holocaust novel ‘Maus’ from its curriculum
Author Art Spiegelman says decision by McMinn County to bar book from eighth grades, citing ‘curse words’ and nudity, is ‘Orwellian’
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Cartoonist Art Spiegelman attends the French Institute Alliance Francaise's "After Charlie: What's Next for Art, Satire and Censorship at Florence Gould Hall on February 19, 2015 in New York City. (Mark Sagliocco/Getty Images via JTA)
August 17, 2019, 7:32 pm
‘Maus’ creator Spiegelman says Marvel censored his Trump super-villain critique
Comics artist says he was asked to excise a comparison of the US president to a nefarious fictional character, in an essay for the publisher
By ToI Staff
Cartoonist Art Spiegelman attends the French Institute Alliance Francaise's "After Charlie: What's Next for Art, Satire and Censorship at Florence Gould Hall on February 19, 2015 in New York City. (Mark Sagliocco/Getty Images via JTA)
August 16, 2018, 12:46 pm
‘Maus’ creator Art Spiegelman wins prestigious MacDowell award
Writer-illustrator is first comic-genre artist to receive medal, which honors individuals who make an outstanding contribution to American culture and the arts
By JTA
Belgian cartoonist Luc Descheemaeker posted this image to his Facebook page after it won a prize at Iran’s widely condemned Holocaust mockery cartoon contest om May 2016. (Facebook)
August 26, 2016, 12:41 pm
How my reporting about an anti-Semitic cartoon changed my views of Belgium — for the worse
Luc Descheemaeker was denounced by UNESCO, Germany and the US, but his school says it’s ‘proud’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Pamela Geller, cofounder and president of Stop Islamization of America, is shown during the American Freedom Defense Initiative program at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, on May 3, 2015. (photo credit: Gregory Castillo/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
May 8, 2015, 3:43 am
‘Maus’ author slams Pamela Geller group, lauds Charlie Hebdo
Art Spiegelman says American Freedom Defense Initiative head ‘intentionally trying to start a war of culture with Islam’
By JTA
Artwork from Art Spiegelman's 'Maus.' (Courtesy/Pantheon & Schocken Books)
April 28, 2015, 7:53 pm
Russia bristles at swastika on ‘Maus’ cover
Bookstores remove award-winning graphic novel about Holocaust from shelves
By AFP
Self Portrait with Maus Mask by Art Spiegelman (photo credit: Courtesy of the current exhibition of the The Jewish Museum/Copyright © by Art Spiegelman. Used by permission of the artist and The Wylie Agency LLC)
January 23, 2014, 6:46 pm
Art Spiegelman exhibit shows so much more than a ‘Maus’ that roared
The challenge of putting together a career retrospective for the relentlessly provocative artist is definitively met in a new NY Jewish Museum exhibit
By Alex Suskind
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