Raw
RAW, edited by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly from 1980, which serialised Maus and imported the European avant-garde to American readers.
Part of Underground Comics
42 moments in this segment.
- - Joost Swarte. Swarte coined the term ligne claire for Herge's drawing method and contributed to RAW, carrying the Dutch small press into Spiegelman and Mouly's orbit.
- - At the drawing table. Photographed two years on, by which point his design work had begun to spread well beyond the page.
- - Art Spiegelman y Françoise Mouly sobre RAW. Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly describe how RAW was assembled, from the oversized format to the European and American artists they printed alongside each other.
- - With an object. Swarte holding a prop for the camera, the deadpan staging typical of Dutch press portraiture of the period.
- - Art Spiegelman on Maus II and Memory, Trauma, and Inheritance (1991). On the reception of Maus II and the argument over where a book about Auschwitz drawn as a comic belonged on a bookshop's shelves, after the New York Times moved it from fiction to nonfiction in 1991.
- - Art Spiegelman Maus Tour 1991. A West Coast promotional stop at the Looking Glass Bookstore in Portland for the second volume of Maus, filmed by Patrick Rosenkranz among an audience of friends and readers.
- - Art Spiegelman (Part 1) - Backstage at Pen & Podium. Art Spiegelman speaks backstage in the year he took the Pulitzer for Maus, on what it meant for a comic to be read as literature rather than as a curiosity.
- - Art Spiegelman interview on "Maus" (1996). Art Spiegelman works through the decisions behind Maus, the animal masks, the father-son interviews and the question of whether a comic could carry that history at all.
- - Spiegelman at APE. The co-editor of RAW photographed at the Alternative Press Expo, twenty one years after the first volume of Maus.
- - Charles Burns in Sollies-Ville. The artist whose Black Hole ran from 1995 to 2005, at the French festival in 2009.
- - Burns interviewed in Haarlem. The American artist on stage at the Dutch comics days, the year X'ed Out began his Nitnit trilogy.
- - Art Spiegelman Lecture at SHU. Art Spiegelman delivers a lecture on comics to a university audience, working from projected images. No description accompanies the recording, so the specific topics covered are not documented.
- - Constructing Knowledge - Gary Panter, Part 2. The second part of the Brooklyn College interview with Gary Panter, continuing on Jimbo and the drawing that produced it.
- - Artist Talk: Gary Panter. Gary Panter designed sleeves for The Screamers, The Residents and Red Hot Chili Peppers and came out of the Los Angeles punk zine scene, and speaks in Detroit alongside a light show he made with Joshua White.
- - Comics and Literacy - Francoise Mouly Booklist webinar. Francoise Mouly, who edits TOON Books, makes the case for comics in classrooms and libraries to an audience of librarians.
- - Art Spiegelman with Ivan Brunetti 1-3. Art Spiegelman and Ivan Brunetti in conversation, the first part of three.
- - Lecture: Spiegelman's Maus, Book 1: Vladek's Resourcefulness. A lecture on the first volume of Maus, working through how Vladek Spiegelman's resourcefulness is drawn and what the book asks of it.
- - The Holocaust Through the Eyes of a Maus (Art Spiegelman). Recorded at the University of Washington in 1991, Art Spiegelman reflects on his parents' survival and on what drawing Maus taught him about their generation.
- - Drinking Ink: Art Spiegelman and Joost Swarte in Conversation. Art Spiegelman and Dutch cartoonist Joost Swarte, a frequent RAW contributor from the magazine's earliest issues, talk about their overlapping careers, single image work alongside comics, and their excursions into architecture and design. Bill Kartalopoulos moderates.
- - Gary Panter Artist Talk. Gary Panter lectures in Houston alongside a Trenton Doyle Hancock drawing survey, covering the paintings, light shows and comics he moves between.
- - SPX 2014 Panel - Charles Burns Q+A. Charles Burns is interviewed by Alvin Buenaventura in a spotlight session, discussing the stories that first ran in RAW during the 1980s, his reworking of older genre comics, the decade spent on Black Hole, and Sugar Skull, which closed his colour trilogy and debuted at the show.
- - Art Spiegelman, Francoise Mouly in conversation with Jeff Smith at CXC .m4v. Jeff Smith interviews Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly about how RAW magazine began and how they ran it, in the closing panel of Cartoon Crossroads Columbus 2015.
- - Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly in Conversation with Jeff Smith • October 3, 2015. Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly are questioned by Jeff Smith about founding RAW in 1980, serialising Maus in its pages and the Angouleme Grand Prix retrospective that followed Spiegelman's 2011 award.
- - Art Spiegelman on "Si Lewen’s Parade: An Artist’s Odyssey" at the 2016 Miami Book Fair. Art Spiegelman presents Si Lewen's The Parade, a wordless picture sequence first published in 1957 that Spiegelman remastered and reissued in accordion-fold form. He talks about Lewen's long career and the recurring war the sequence traces.
- - Art Spiegelman on Maus - The John Adams Institute. Speaking in Amsterdam in June 1994, Art Spiegelman explains why he used comics, and mice, to set down his father's account of surviving the camps.
- - Art Spiegelman & Françoise Mouly | Mercoledì 4 ottobre | Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2017. Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly take press questions at the Pordenone silent film festival in October 2017.
- - Virtual Memories #262 - Jerry Moriarty. Jerry Moriarty explains the term paintoonist, the origins of his Jack Survives strips, and fifty years of teaching at the School of Visual Arts.
- - Jammer Talks About: Breakdowns by Art Spiegelman. Breakdowns collects Art Spiegelman's formally restless early strips, the work that preceded Maus and that the reviewer notes has attracted little written coverage.
- - 1987 Interview Art Spiegelman. Art Spiegelman was filmed in the Hague in 1987 for the Strip-3-Daagse, the interview shown at the ceremony where Maus took album of the year in his absence.
- - Michael Rothberg Lecture on Art Spiegelman's Maus 2021. Michael Rothberg lectures on Maus as second-generation Holocaust memoir, setting it against Marianne Hirsch's writing on postmemory and the arguments over representing the camps.
- - Holocaust Graphic Novelist Art Spiegelman on "Maus" & Wave of Book Bans Sweeping U.S.. A Tennessee school board voted to remove Maus from its eighth grade curriculum over profanity and nudity, and Art Spiegelman responds to the decision.
- - Spiegelman photographed by his daughter. A portrait of Art Spiegelman made by Nadja Spiegelman, herself a writer.
- - BREAKDOWNS Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! | Art Spiegelman | Comic Cave Deep Dive. Breakdowns gathers the formal experiments Art Spiegelman made in the underground before Maus and RAW, including the strips drawn while he was working for Topps.
- - Book Launch: ARTFUL BREAKDOWNS: THE COMICS OF ART SPIEGELMAN, ed. Konstantinou & Banita. Lee Konstantinou talks with Christina Walter about Artful Breakdowns: The Comics of Art Spiegelman, the essay collection he co-edited with Georgiana Banita, tracing Spiegelman's route from underground work through RAW and Maus into wider recognition.
- - In Conversation: Art Spiegelman on Si Lewen and Graphic Novels. Art Spiegelman discusses the artist Si Lewen and his wordless picture narratives with Rebecca Rabinow, director of the Menil Collection, using them to trace a longer history of storytelling in pictures leading to the graphic novel. Spiegelman won the Pulitzer Prize for Maus in 1992.
- - Gary Panter on Constructing Knowledge (full interview) part 2. Gary Panter covers underground comics, RAW magazine, the punk album covers he drew, Jimbo, the Pee-wee's Playhouse sets and the Branch Davidians, in a 2011 interview.
- - Comics icon Charles Burns talks to Mattea Roach about returning to teenage angst in his work | CBC. Charles Burns tells Mattea Roach how Final Cut grew out of his own 1970s adolescence and his taste for science fiction and horror films, and traces the changes in his drawing over the years.
- - Art Spiegelman & Francoise Mouly in Discussion with Jeff Smith. Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly, who took the first CXC Transformative Work Award in 2015 for RAW, return to talk with Jeff Smith about their work and about the current round of book bans.
- - Co-Mix: a lavish comprehensive monograph of Art Spiegelman’s career! A bounty of rare comics and art. Co-Mix reproduces Art Spiegelman's career across comics, covers and commercial work, including material rarely reprinted.
- - Art Spiegelman Discusses MetaMaus with Dan Nadel. Art Spiegelman talks with Dan Nadel about MetaMaus, the companion volume in which he reopens Maus and works through the questions it raises about the Holocaust, the choice of animal figures, and why the material was made as comics at all.
- - The SURREAL HORROR of CHARLES BURNS | Black Hole | Fantagraphics | Pantheon Books |. A survey of Charles Burns as a draughtsman, centred on Black Hole and his earlier strips, looking at his flat black brushwork, body-horror imagery and the shift from anthology serialisation to collected editions.
- - CXC 2025 Keynote Speaker: Charles Burns. Charles Burns gives a keynote looking back over his career, from the early stories in Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly's RAW through Black Hole, X'd Out and The Hive to the recent Final Cut, Kommix and Unwholesome Love, in conversation with a comics scholar.