At some point I will stop blogging interviews with Art Spiegelman, but I’m still enjoying listening to him talk about his career, so here he is answering questions about MetaMaus on NPR’s Talk of the Nation:
“I wanted all the flaws to be on a one-to-one relationship with the reader so that it would feel more like looking at a diary, although it’s a forged diary, as you get to see when you’re looking at all the sketches and preliminary work.
“It wanted to have that feeling of handwriting. So I was working on stationery with a fountain pen and [correcting] with typewriter correction fluid. And I wanted it to feel like a manuscript because that would allow a kind of intimacy to it, and it would keep me from frill and decoration in the drawing.”
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