Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer prize winning comic artist and creator of the masterful Holocaust narrative Maus, makes his Australian debut in 'WORDLESS!' a performance of slides, talk and music commissioned for the Graphic festival in Sydney. His musical collaborator in the performance is jazz composer Phillip Johnston.
When I filmed this Art kindly drew a Maus in the cover of the copy of my book. Lovely man.
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Filmed at Gosh! Comics on Berwick Street, Soho, London. As aired on the BBC News Channel 8th December 2011. Copyright BBC News. Reporter Nick Higham. Produced, filmed and edited by Howard Johnson.
US cartoonist Art Spiegelman uses words and pictures to create literary masterpieces.
Sydney Morning Herald article written by Stephen A. Russell, 2013