Art Spiegelman Disaster Is My Muse Trailer

Art Spiegelman Disaster Is My Muse Trailer - official movie trailer HD

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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.