Art Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman and I became friends during his tenure on Arcade the Comics Revue magazine he co-edited with Zippy creator Bill Griffith which had its format tweaked larger size a bit later into the phenomenal selling Raw!

Before my hip joint cartilage blew out into bone on bone in 2006 for quite a few years I used to travel into New York City for comicons. Most treks in, Art and I would get-together in his NYC studio for hours long comics research projects as he helped me fathom the artifacts I was uncovering from the 1800s.

Here he drew us together June 13, 2000 with him as Maus and me as Obadiah Oldbuck in a Rodolphe Topffer style when I came thru with an original printing of the first comic book in America, The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck, Wilson & Co, Sept, 1842.

We knew that night that most everything written up to that point regarding the origins of the American comic book and comic strip were simply wrong. We both got goose bumps.