I just presented Art Spiegelman with the National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, on the same day that PENAmerica put out a letter signed by Art and Margaret Atwood and me, among others, protesting the latest round of book bannings.
https://pen.org/spiegelman-atwood-sign-pen-america-letter-against-missouri-book-bans/
Spiegelman, Atwood Among Signers of PEN America Letter Against Missouri Book Bans

Missouri book bans include graphic adaptations of the Bible and the Gettysburg Address, as well as Art Spiegelman's Maus and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.

PEN America
@neilhimself I swear I remember a graphic novel book or a graphic novel article he wrote about the nature of art in which he argues that art is a much more widely encompassing concept than most think (and that it encompasses many creative things that people do in their daily life and in their seemingly “non-artistic” jobs. Did I imagine this? I’ve never been able to find it again.
@bigstormpicture @neilhimself If you find it, I love to know!