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Pulitzer
Prize-Winning Cartoonist Art Spiegelman To Speak at
Pomona College
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On Tuesday, February 8, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist
Art Spiegelman will give a lecture entitled “Comix 101,” an
overview of comic art, its history and its relevance to
modern culture.
Spiegelman will cover the chronological evolution of comics,
comic books as media and explain why their importance may be
on the rise. “Comics echo the way the brain works. People
think in iconographic images, not in holograms, and people
think in bursts of language, not in paragraphs,” he
explains.
In Maus, the now iconic work that won him the 1992
Pulitzer Prize, Spiegelman employed such an approach to tell
the story of his parent’s survival of a World War II
concentration camp. Depicting Jews as mice and Nazis as cats
(the Katzies), Spiegelman completed the story of his
parents’ experiences and their later lives in America in
Maus II. His most recent publication, In the Shadow
of No Towers, a highly personal and political account of
his reactions to the September 11 attacks, was named a
New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2004. Earlier
this year Spiegelman was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des
Arts et des Lettres in France.
The lecture will begin at 8 pm and be held in the Pomona
College Smith Campus Center, Edmunds Ballroom, 170 E. Sixth
St., Claremont. Sponsored by the Associated Students of
Pomona College, the event is open to the public, and there
is no charge to attend.
Pomona College, one of the nation’s premier liberal arts
institutions, offers a comprehensive program in the arts,
humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Its
hallmarks include small classes, close relationships between
students and faculty, and a range of opportunities for
student research. For more information on Pomona College,
visit its Website at www.pomona.edu.
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