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05/07/2005
A new feature of the Artists Network site:
Reviews, tips and opinions from Araby Carlier.
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Araby Carlier is a member of the see you in the
streets generation that has brought us the
anti-globalization and anti-war movements. As a young
urban warrior she defended abortion clinics, stood
with the people in the streets of Cincinnati during
the rebellion after the police murdered Timothy
Thomas, she led Philly Freedom Summer against the
execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal, and has spoken at
countless demonstrations, conferences, radio shows,
and workshops across the country.
Most recently she co-produced for the Artists Network
of Refuse & Resist!, "Unconventional Heroes"-- an
evening of performance honoring courageous resisters
presented in the thick of the protest against the RNC
in NYC.
Araby became obsessed with novels after tasting the
liberation in Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
and Steinbeck's classic Grapes of Wrath. Armed with
the certainty that anyone will LOVE a great book,
Araby is applying her creativity and determination to
write about novels in a fresh way because she is
confident that another world is possible and many
books that already exist may light the way.
Araby's own blog is at:
liveswemightlive.blogspot.com
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I've read a few interviews and other articles where Marjane Satrapi speaks about how influencial and inspiring Art Spiegelman's work has been to her. Her words are always laced with praise, admiration, and the comfort and east that exists between friends. Reading those articles I would think "wow, wouldn't it be great to be a fly on the wall for a visit between Spiegelman and Satrapi" and now we have it ...
PEN FOREIGN EXCHANGES:
Conversation between Art Spiegelman and Marjane Satrapi
From a recent issue of Time Magazine: “The first time I really met Art Spiegelman, 57, was two years ago in his studio in Manhattan…I wanted to meet him to apologize, to make it clear that, while some compared my book, Persepolis, to his, I would never do so. He told me not to worry. We spent the afternoon smoking cigarettes. The Great Art Spiegelman smoked three times more than I. He’s a better man than even I had expected,” writes Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis and Embroideries.
When: Tuesday, May 10, 2005
What Time: 7:00 p.m.
Where: The New School, 66 West 12th Street, Wollman Hall, Fifth floor (across court)
No. 5 in a series of international literary explorations: a conversation between Art Spiegelman and Marjane Satrapi (author of Persepolis 1 and 2 and Embroideries), moderated by Françoise Mouly.
The New School box office: (212) 229–5488. Price: $10. Call (212) 334–1660, ext. 107, for information.
This event is co-sponored by The New School Graduate Writing Department and made possible by the Kaplen Foundation; the Lila Wallace Theater Fund of the New York Community Trust; FJC, a Foundation of Donor-Advised Funds; the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; and PEN members.
Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman... to the comics world is a Michelangelo and a Medici both, an influential artist who is also an impresario and an enabler of others." (The New York Times Magazine). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for his masterful Holocaust narrative Maus, which was followed by Maus II, he is one of the world's best-known graphic artists. "It would be almost impossible to overstate the influence of Maus among other artists" (The New York Times Magazine).
Born in Stockholm in 1948, Spiegelman rejected his parents' aspirations for him to become a dentist, and began to study cartooning in high school and drawing professionally at age 16. He went on to study art and philosophy at Harpur College before joining the underground comics movement. As creative consultant for Topps Candy from 1965-1987, Spiegelman designed Wacky Packages, Garbage Pail Kids and other novelty items, and taught history and aesthetics of comics at the School for Visual Arts in New York from 1979-1986. In 1980, Spiegelman founded RAW, the acclaimed avant-garde comics magazine, with his wife, Francoise Mouly. His work has since been published in many periodicals, including The New Yorker, where he was a staff artist and writer from 1993-2003. He has since published a children’s book entitled Open Me... I'm A Dog, as well as the illustration accompaniment to the 1928 book The Wild Party, by Joseph Moncure March.
Spiegelman is working on the libretto and the sets for a new opera about the history of comics entitled "Drawn to Death: A Three Panel Opera" with composer Phillip Johnston. He currently edits Little Lit, a series of comics anthologies for children and has recently completed an anthology of his New Yorker work Kisses from New York.
In addition to the Pulitzer, Spiegelman has been honored with a Guggenheim fellowship and nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His most recent book is In the Shadow of No Towers. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.
Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis and Persepolis 2 introduced us to a young Iranian whose wit, charm, and fearlessness took the United States by storm and generated national coverage in The New York Times, Vogue, Elle, Entertainment Weekly, People, Time, and USA Today (among others). With Embroideries (Pantheon Books/April 19, 2004/$16.95), Marjane Satrapi takes us into her grandmother’s living room for an afternoon with her female relatives and neighbors sitting around, drinking tea, talking about love, sex, and the vagaries of men.
As the afternoon progresses, these women share secrets and wild tales about everything from how to fake your virginity on your wedding night to how to enjoy the miracles of plastic surgery to how to keep your man. Both heartbreaking and hilarious, these stories—told in Marjane’s signature simple, yet elegant black-and-white panels—lift the veil off the real, private lives of Iranian women and reveal the connections between women everywhere.
Marjane Satrapi grew up in Tehran and now lives in Paris. Her illustrations regularly appear in newspapers and magazines around the world, and she is the author of several children’s books. She will be in the following cities and is available for interviews: Boston, Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee, New York City, and Raleigh/Durham. Please let me know if you are interested in talking with her.
Two years ago, the Baltimore Sun wrote, “It is virtually impossible to read Persepolis without falling in love.” With Embroideries, you will fall in love all over again. I look forward to your coverage.
Françoise Mouly
Françoise Mouly joined The New Yorker as art editor in April 1993.
She co-founded Raw Books & Graphics in 1977, and for fifteen years published artists' monographs and the annual "Streets of Soho and Tribeca Map & Guide." Ms. Mouly has also served as the publisher, designer, and co-editor with her husband, Art Spiegelman, of the pioneering avant-garde comics anthology RAW, which launched in 1980. This is the magazine that first brought acclaim to artists such as Charles Burns, Sue Coe, Gary Panter, Chris Ware, Lorenzo Mattotti, and Xavier Mariscal. It also first published Maus, Mr. Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book on the Holocaust. From 1987 to 1995 Ms. Mouly edited, designed and packaged books for Pantheon and Penguin Books.
Ms. Mouly and Mr. Spiegelman have launched a RAW Junior division and have collaborated on an anthology of comic strip stories for children, Little Lit.
To commemorate The New Yorker's 75th anniversary, Ms. Mouly curated an exhibit of contemporary cover art at the Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna in Rome, and guest-curated a selection of a show at the Whilhelm-Busch Museum in Hannover, Germany.
In the fall of 2000, Abbeville released Ms. Mouly's book, Covering The New Yorker, a compilation of over 300 timeless New Yorker covers.
Born in Paris, Françoise Mouly studied architecture at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts and moved to New York in 1974. She and her husband, Art Spiegelman, live in Manhattan with their two children, Nadja and Dashiell.
"It has perhaps never been more important for the world's voices to be heard in America, never more important for the world's ideas and dreams to be known and thought about and discussed, never more important for a global dialogue to be fostered. Yet one has the sense of things shutting down, of barriers being erected, of that dilogue being stifled precisely when we should be doing our best to amplify it. The cold war is over, but a stranger war has begun." -Salman Rushdie 4.16.05
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