Tue 3/6 @ 7PM
Celebrated cartoonist/graphic artist Art Spiegelman, now 70, first began working in the 1960s. But unlike some of the underground comics artists of that era (such as R. Crumb) he didn’t make his name doing stories about drugs, sex and rock & roll. He is best known for his epic graphic novel Maus, serialized between 1980 and 1991. It made clear the depth of his social, political and historical interests as he related stories of his troubled Polish Jewish parents who were traumatized by their experiences during World War II and their time in Auschwitz, and also explained how their traumas impacted him.
Kent State University’s College of Arts and Sciences and the Jewish Studies Program are bringing Spiegelman to the KSU Student Center will host Mr. Spiegelman to present a talk called “Comix, Jews ’n Art – Dun’t Esk.” It’s free and open to the public.
Chaya Kessler, the director of the Jewish Studies Program at Kent State, who helped bring Speigelman to Kent, says, “His unique approach to recounting his personal narrative about his family’s experiences during the Holocaust makes him a powerful voice for our community to hear. I am hoping that this presentation will be experienced by many students and area community members to learn about the struggles of the second generation of Holocaust survivors and the way they deal with their family’s past.”
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