Art Spiegelman

Yuck for Yucks: The Art of Basil Wolverton

Basil Wolverton’s drawings are a visually witty mishmash of human organs: glands, blistering skin, distended proboscises, eyes swinging from their sockets, and barnacle teeth pointed in every direction. A new show of his original drawings at New York’s Gladstone Gallery spans his career and range of style, from his first comic strip drawing to his late post-apocalyptic visions.… Read More

Quote of the Day: From Graphic Images to Graphic Novels…

“I did the most vile comics I could possibly think of, because I thought that’s what underground comics were all about.”

- Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Art Spiegelman explains to The Economist how that whole “decapitated man getting f*cked in the neck” image came about in the ’60s; it actually got him banned from … Read More