Reminder — artist coming to Asheville:
ASHEVILLE, NC.- The Asheville Art Museum ’s smArt speak: Distinguished Artist Series proudly presents Art Spiegelman: History of Comix 101 on Thursday, September 11 at 7:00 p.m. at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium.
As part of its 60th Anniversary Celebration, the Asheville Art Museum brings, for the first time to Western North Carolina audiences, Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrator Art Spiegelman. Spiegelman is the creator of Maus, a gripping graphic novel about the Holocaust, and In the Shadow of No Towers, a personal work about his experiences during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Because his graphic novels are powerful, autobiographical and universal, Spiegelman was chosen to help us explore the theme of “Graphic Memory” for the Asheville Art Museum ’s smArt speak: Distinguished Artist Series. After college he joined the underground “comix” movement rife with social and political commentary. In addition to a prolific career as a regular contributor to various underground publications, he also co-edited a comix revue, Arcade . In 1980, he started the avant-garde comics magazine RAW with his wife Françoise Mouly and more recently, is co-editor of the children’s comic series Little Lit. He has drawn for Topps Bubble Gum Co. and The New Yorker, in addition to teaching history and the aesthetics of comics