Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse

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This insightful documentary delves into the life and work of Art Spiegelman, the Queens-raised artist who revolutionized comics by exploring dark, complex themes. Shaped by his Holocaust-survivor parents and inspired by MAD magazine’s irreverent satire, Spiegelman’s most famous work, MAUS, is a poignant Holocaust narrative that redefined the medium. The film showcases his resistance to fascism and features rich illustrations from his comics, highlighting his significant impact as an artist and cultural critic.

directed by: Molly Bernstein, Philip Dolin
starring: Art Spiegelman, Françouise Mouly, Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Bill Griffith, Emil Ferris, Charles Burns, Chris Ware, Peter Kuper, R. Sikoryak, Gary Panter, Joe Sacco, Molly Crabapple, J. Hoberman, Ken Jacobs, Najda Spiegelman, Dash Spiegelman, Ivan Brunetti, Jerry Craft, Hillary Chute
2025 / 100 min / 1.78:1 / English DTS-HD MA 2.0

Additional info:

• 2-Disc Region Free Blu-ray
• Trailer
• Deleted Scenes
• Art Reads ""As the Mind Reels"" about watching Dick Van Dyke with his parents
• Bill Griffith discusses the art of making Woodcuts
• Cartoonists As Reporters
• Hillary Chute on Academic Impact of Art's work
• Françoise Mouly explains Color Separation
• Françoise talks about having a Printing Press in their apartment and what she made
• Art talks about MAD Magazine founder Harvey Kurtzman and the war comics he published for EC Comics
• Art tells the story of being censored by Marvel Comics
• Art works with artist Si Lewen
• Bill Griffith describes how he and Art came up with Wacky Packages ideas
• The Spiegelmans and the Crumbs at the table
• Extended Interviews, speeches, and Outtakes: Françoise Mouly on first Coming to New York
• Art Spiegelman's Skidmore College Talk
• Michael Chabon, Hillary Chute present Art with the MacDowell medal - speeches
• Art speaks at the NY High School of Art and Design
• Art, Françoise Mouly and Chris Ware on a panel at Comic Arts Brooklyn
• Art gives a history of comics talk in Reston VA
• Art Spiegelman on Forbidden Images Now at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts with Hillary Chute
• Art accepts the National Book Awards Lifetime Achievement award
• Hillary Chute Extended interview
• Marlborough Gallery Tour of Art Spiegelman show (with Art)
• Art makes a lithograph at a studio in Brooklyn
• Drawing Sequence of artists in the film making con sketches
• English SDH subtitles