Last Friday, we welcomed Art Spiegelman to the reading room.
Mr. Spiegelman very kindly created an original drawing and signed a copy of his Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel Maus to add to our rare book collection.
Mr. Spiegelman was visiting the Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop (CATS) Collection of original and printed comic art housed in the Woodson Research Center. The collection forms part of the Comic Art and Teaching Workshop at Rice University. A portion of the works have been created by American artists, including 14 pieces donated by Lewis and Vera Kaminester include a three-panel Mickey Mouse comic strip by Walt Disney, a Bil Keane “Family Circus” illustration and multiple works from Chic Young’s famed “Blondie” series. Mexican, German, Chinese, and Japanese artists are also featured. Initial processing, digitization, and exhibit creation for this material is being undertaken by Rice undergraduates Irene Wang, Jenn Nguyen and Sophia DeLeon-Wilson, under the leadership of Chris Sperandio, as part of a Fondren Fellows project “Out of the Gutter.”
Donated by Christopher Sperandio, the collection supports CATS (Comic Art Teaching and Study Workshop) a research space and annex classroom for the studio art area based in the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts at Rice University. It’s a repository for original comic art and books that are available to students, faculty and guests of the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts.
What's in Woodson 