ART SPIEGELMAN: DISASTER IS MY MUSE

An exploration of the life and career of cartoonist Art Spiegelman and the creation and ground-breaking impact of his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel MAUS, the story of his parents’ survival of the Holocaust, and his own struggle to come to terms with this legacy.

While best-known for the two volumes of MAUS, Art Spiegelman’s deeply personal body of work also includes IN THE SHADOW OF NO TOWERS, BREAKDOWNS, THE WILD PARTY, his many provocative covers for The New Yorker magazine, and publishing the acclaimed and influential comics magazine RAW. When MAUS was banned by a Tennessee school board in 2022, Art stepped back into the spotlight as an ardent defender of free speech and against book-banning. DISASTER IS MY MUSE is a portrait of an artist who, with his chosen medium of comics, helps us to understand our turbulent world, and is testimony to the power of art to make sense of our personal and collective histories.