Curating Comics Canons: Daniel Clowes and Art Spiegelman’s Private Museums
This chapter includes a 2017 essay by Belgian comics scholar Benoit Crucifix examining two artist curated shows celebrating their own comics heroes and influences: Eye of the Cartoonist: Daniel Clowes’s Selections from Comics History (Wexner Center in collaboration with the Billy Ireland, 2014) and Le Musée prive d’Art Spiegelman, a selection from Spiegelman’s own collection, accompanied Co-Mix, a major retrospective of his work at the 2012 Angoulême International Comics Festival. This chapter discusses the relationship between museum and archive, cultural role of curator, comics canon, and individual’s comics history. Images: 3 exhibition photos
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