Art Spiegelman Disaster Is My Muse Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: This insightful documentary delves into the life and work of Art Spiegelman, the Queens-raised artist who revolutionized comics by exploring dark, complex themes. Shaped by his Holocaust-survivor parents and inspired by MAD magazine’s irreverent satire, Spiegelman’s most famous work, MAUS, is a poignant Holocaust narrative that redefined the medium. The film showcases his resistance to fascism and features rich illustrations from his comics, highlighting his significant impact as an artist and cultural critic. Featuring Robert Crumb among many others.
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00:00He's trying to mess with us.
00:04Art Spiegelman is the guy that reinvented comics as a medium that people took seriously.
00:10The thing that amazed me about Mouse was the audacity.
00:13Thank you so much for something I've read so many times over the years.
00:16I can't thank you enough.
00:17It is drawn as if you took a pen and put it in the heart and the heart drew this.
00:23I was absolutely floored at what you could do with a comic.
00:33Everything I know I learned from comic books.
00:36I learned how to read from looking at Batman and trying to figure out whether he was a
00:39good guy or a bad guy.
00:42And ethics, aesthetics, and everything else from Mad Magazine.
00:46The thread that ties most underground comics together is transgression.
00:51By showing stuff you're not supposed to show, you're robbing it of its power.
00:55I didn't understand how someone could be so intimate on paper and that blew my mind.
01:06I did take comics very, very seriously and I thought they were an incredibly maligned
01:14art form and this was as valid as anything that happened in literature or in painting
01:18or in cinema.
01:20He opened up the door that a lot of us went through.
01:24Art always seems to be standing at this point in these histories.
01:28Man did that get people upset.
01:29That was the one that really did it.
01:32Growing backlash over a Tennessee school board's decision to ban a Pulitzer Prize winning book
01:37about the Holocaust.
01:38It is a work that has not lost any relevance in the nearly 40 years since it was first
01:45read.
01:46Thank you all and see you in the funny papers.