Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Underground Maus

Artwork from Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust graphic novel Maus is being displayed on the underground system in Budapest according to the Comics Reporter. Culture Minister Andras Bozoki stated that Spiegelman’s groundbreaking work was important because it raised serious questions.

It’s great to see a graphic novel work being taken so seriously, both politically and culturally. I wonder if transport authorities in the UK could do something similar? Excerpts from the Bogey Man on the Glasgow Underground perhaps? Pages of art from Gary Spencer Millidge’s excellent Strangehaven on bus routes over rural England?