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…rt, who is now 46, was raised in a Queens, N.Y., apartment in the psychic shadow of the death camps. Like many children of Holocaust survivors, he was curious about his parents' past, but afraid to ask about it. That made him Jewish in perhaps the worst possible way. Because of that, he was not at all at ease with being in a Jewish skin. Mr. Spiegelman is no longer in Queens. After side trips and side gigs in which he edited underground comic ...…
…amusing that in a week in which 90 percent of the oth- er magazines on the stands had all these S&M covers, because that seems to be very dominant in our culture right now, what got people most upset weren't whips and chains, but two people kissing. That was amusing to me. I liked the idea that both sides were equally up- set with me, that I'd done this mitzvah and given them something to unite over." The cover appeared shortly after one of th...…
…alize that I couldn't keep it so abstract. It became im- portant to show that these people were killed because they were Jews." There was a certain historic logic to using mice as Jews: Through the ages, both have been hunted — and killed. But, said Mr. Spiegelman, there was also an in- tuitive graphics logic to using mice. "One of the first things a baby can recognize," he said, "is one of these 'Have A Nice Day' faces. The more stripped down...…
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