Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman on KCRW Bookworm

Michael Silverblatt has interviewed Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman separately for KCRW’s Bookworm radio program. In her half hour interview, Mouly discusses her TOON Books line of children’s comics. In a shorter, 15-minute segment, Spiegelman discusses his forthcoming book Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!. The book incorporates a reprinting of Spiegelman’s 1977 book Breakdowns and also includes a section of new autobiographical comics, portions of which were serialized in the Virginia Quarterly Review.

Françoise Mouly:

Art Spiegelman:

In the Shadow of No Towers in Performance

On September 11, 2008 the Issue Project Room will host a live performative reading from Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers. Eric Bogosian will read from Spiegelman’s book with live musical accompaniment “featuring Marco Capelli and Elliott Sharp and several other surprise guests.”

Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn carries more information about the production: “An animated film and graphic menagerie based on Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel In The Shadow of No Towers, in which [he] relates his personal experiences during the September 11th attacks, this multifaceted piece will be accompanied by a live experimental soundtrack interwoven with spoken word.”

The event takes place at 8pm; admission costs $15.