Indy Magazine, the online quarterly about the comics medium, returns with an issue covering the career of Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist whose body of work includes
Maus and
In the Shadow of No Towers, and who, with his wife Françoise Mouly, co-edited
RAW, the seminal international comics anthology.
Features include an analysis of Spiegelman's first book,
Breakdowns, a 1977 hardcover anthology of his strongest short-form underground comix (including "Prisoner on the Hell Planet," "Ace Hole: Midget Detective," and the original three-page version of "Maus").
A two-part feature provides an exhaustive oral and visual history of
RAW Magazine:
In Part One, Françoise Mouly shares her recollections of moving to New York from France in 1974, meeting and marrying Spiegelman, exploring international comics, and opening up shop as a small-press publisher/printer under the RAW name.
Part Two surveys
RAW Magazine's 1980-1991 lifespan, featuring commentary from Mouly and Spiegelman, as well as
RAW contributors Charles Burns, Kim Deitch, Paul Karasik, Kaz, Jerry Moriarty, Gary Panter, R. Sikoryak, and Chris Ware. Both parts of the
RAW history are heavily illustrated with dozens of rare images from the
RAW archives, including a full visual bibliography, cover sketches, mock-ups, notes, color separations and photographs.
An essay by Hillary Chute offers a close examination of eight graphic narrative structures that reveal Spiegelman's sophisticated use of the comics page to communicate meaning in
Maus.
Martha Kuhlman interviews Dr. Marianne Hirsch, author of the seminal essay "Family Pictures: Maus, Mourning and Post-Memory," on the academic response to
Maus.
Kartalopoulos considers themes, strategies and recurring imagery in Spiegelman's total body of work in light of the artist's candid autobiographical statements.
Spiegelman also appears briefly in cartoonist Phoebe Gloeckner's eight-page photocomics report of her recent visit to the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée in Angoulême, France. The piece further includes a glimpse at Robert Crumb's current graphic novel-in-progress, a literal comics adaptation of the book of Genesis.
The issue runs reviews of Gary Panter's
Jimbo in Purgatory, Arn Saba's
Neil the Horse, and Posy Simmonds'
Literary Life.
Indy Magazine is published online by Jeff Mason and is edited by Bill Kartalopoulos.
Indy began as a print journal edited and published by Mason between 1993 and 1998, and subsequently ran as an online magazine through 2001. In late 2002 Mason invited Kartalopoulos to revive and edit the publication. Redesigned and reinvented as an analytical quarterly,
Indy Magazine relaunched in January 2004.
Previous issues in
Indy Magazine's current volume have included: textual and graphic contributions from cartoonists including Art Spiegelman, Joe Sacco, Jerry Moriarty, Megan Kelso, Willem, Tom Hart, and Jason Little; features on subjects including Gustave Dore, R.O. Blechman, Ben Katchor, Peter Bagge, Honore Daumier, Milt Gross, and Caran d'Ache; interviews with Jules Feiffer, Françoise Mouly, Paul Karasik, and David Mazzucchelli; and previews and reviews of new and recently published work by Dan Clowes, Charles Schulz, Alan Moore, A.B. Frost, Craig Thompson, James Sturm, and Dave Sim & Gerhard, among others.
Previous issues are archived online alongside the current edition:
http://www.indyworld.com/indy/
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