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Drew Friedman’s Sketchbook
A school board in Tennessee recently voted to remove Art Spiegelman’s Maus from an eighth-grade language-arts curriculum, due to worries about “unnecessary” profanity and a single image of a nude female. The Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novel tells the story of Spiegelman’s father, a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust. The above portrait depicts Art in the mid-70s, around the time I had him as an instructor at the School of Visual Arts, in New York. Art was, and continues to be, passionate about the potential of comics.
By Drew Friedman

February 12, 2022

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Issue No. 135
February 12, 2022
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Issue No. 135
February 12, 2022