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And Into What Got the Chinese New Year Parade slides back today. I was worried about the low light conditions and in looking at them, that was a problem, but one that can be resolved. The year is starting, the weather is getting better and I'll soon have the chance to run enough film through the camera to get a feeling for what's happening and make adjustments.
There is a brief article in the Examiner today about
That was always a little surprising. I remember talking with him at his place in San Francisco one afternoon in the early 1970's not that long after his first Maus book had been published, wondering what reaction he'd experienced here in San Francisco as well as his home in New York City.
The Maus comix were based on a series of conversations Spiegelman
had had with his father, a Holocaust survivor, with Spiegelman relating his
father's experiences with the Nazis and the concentration camps. The
My question for him was how people had reacted to the book.
It had been out for a few months by then, I forget who had published it,
He understood and no, the reception had been positive, what feedback he'd had so far. I was there to talk with him about another comix artist at the request of a friend in New York who needed some information for a piece she was doing for New York magazine so we went on to talk about that. Spiegelman has come some way since, the Maus books eventually resulting in the Pulitzer-Prize. I think if I suggested such a thing back then sitting in his apartment in the Mission district he would have given me an incredulous laugh. Life is strange, seeing what has become of that underground artist's world, what things succeeded, what things didn't, what things grew and into what. |
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