Official Trailer for 'Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse' Documentary

"He opened up a door that a lot of us went through." Cargo Film has revealed an official trailer for an indie documentary film titled Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse, a profile of the iconic comic book artist / cartoonist Art Spiegelman. After premiering at DOC NYC last year, this opens in select theaters (starting in NYC of course) this month. Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus is a landmark in reckoning with the Holocaust and breakthrough in serious comic art — but his full achievements are more remarkable and eclectic. This doc tracks his beginnings in the 1960s as a co-creator of the Wacky Packages trading cards; his co-founding of the underground comics magazines Arcade (with Bill Griffith) and Raw (with wife Françoise Mouly); In the Shadow of No Towers, his reaction to 9/11, inspired by witnessing the attacks from his home in lower Manhattan; his controversial covers for The New Yorker (1993-2003) that prompted the NYPD to picket the magazine's office; and his response to Maus's recent ban by a Tennessee school board. Featuring convos with Art and his contemporaries (Robert Crumb, Gary Panter) and younger cartoonists (Joe Sacco, Jerry Craft, Molly Crabapple) inspired by his […]

Feb 10, 2025 - 17:05

Official Trailer for 'Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse' Documentary

Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse Trailer

"He opened up a door that a lot of us went through." Cargo Film has revealed an official trailer for an indie documentary film titled Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse, a profile of the iconic comic book artist / cartoonist Art Spiegelman. After premiering at DOC NYC last year, this opens in select theaters (starting in NYC of course) this month. Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus is a landmark in reckoning with the Holocaust and breakthrough in serious comic art — but his full achievements are more remarkable and eclectic. This doc tracks his beginnings in the 1960s as a co-creator of the Wacky Packages trading cards; his co-founding of the underground comics magazines Arcade (with Bill Griffith) and Raw (with wife Françoise Mouly); In the Shadow of No Towers, his reaction to 9/11, inspired by witnessing the attacks from his home in lower Manhattan; his controversial covers for The New Yorker (1993-2003) that prompted the NYPD to picket the magazine's office; and his response to Maus's recent ban by a Tennessee school board. Featuring convos with Art and his contemporaries (Robert Crumb, Gary Panter) and younger cartoonists (Joe Sacco, Jerry Craft, Molly Crabapple) inspired by his work. Sounds great! Check it out below. // Continue Reading ›