Spiegelman Lectures at Lafayette



This report From Art Spiegelman's lecture at Lafayette College as part of freshman orientation is a quote bonanza. Incoming first-year students were required to read the cartoonist's In the Shadow of No Towers as part of a year-long project designed to help them process multiple points of view from a variety of media. The choice had been criticized by some students who felt that Spiegelman's book was disrespectful to survivors and victims of the 2001 World Trade Center attacks, and too heavily political to foster rational discourse in such a program. According to the piece, Spiegelman couched what he was doing while making he book in terms of reaction through comics-making and reporting on what he saw.

image from the book; does the critical dialogue of promise-hatred-recovery around Spiegelman's work remind anyone else of film directors more than cartoonists?
 
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