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Art Spiegelman's sketchbooks

Art Spiegelman: Three new sketchbooks from Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman writes: "A dim-witted busboy in a beatnik coffee shop yearns to be an artist so he too can score with the chicks. Before becoming a multiple murderer he tries his hand at sculpture, flailing desperately at a lump of clay while muttering: Be a Nose! BE A NOSE!!!

"This moment in Roger Corman’s 1959 horror cheapie, A BUCKET OF BLOOD, is the most accurate evocation I’ve ever seen of my creative process." Photograph: Art Spiegelman/Atlantic Books
Art Spiegelman: Three new sketchbooks from Art Spiegelman
Cover design for RAW, the magazine Spiegelman started with his wife, Françoise Mouly. Photograph: Art Spiegelman/Atlantic Books
Art Spiegelman: Three new sketchbooks from Art Spiegelman
Detail from The Passion of St Sluggo by Art Spiegelman & Charlie Burns, 1983 Photograph: Art Spiegelman & Charlie Burns/Atlantic Books
Art Spiegelman: Three new sketchbooks from Art Spiegelman
Detail from sketchbook abandoned in June 2008 Photograph: Art Spiegelman/Atlantic Books
Art Spiegelman: Three new sketchbooks from Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman writes: "My best drawings have often been on stray scraps of paper, falling somewhere between unconscious doodles and focused drawings ... I don't keep most of them, though my wife curates and files the ones I leave around when I use her phone." Photograph: Art Spiegelman/Atlantic Books
Art Spiegelman: Three new sketchbooks from Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman writes: "On scraps of paper the pressure to perform is gone and the results throb with a life I just can't hold on to in my 'finished' art." Photograph: Art Spiegelman/Atlantic Books
Art Spiegelman: Three new sketchbooks from Art Spiegelman
From "Drawn Over Two Weeks While on the Phone", "a stab at harnessing my doodling impulse to my comics" which was eventually published in the first issue of RAW. Photograph: Art Spiegelman/Atlantic Books
Art Spiegelman: Three new sketchbooks from Art Spiegelman
From sketchbook abandoned in June 2008. Photograph: Art Spiegelman/Atlantic Books
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