In METAMAUS, Spiegelman employs prose, drawings, documents, and photographs to trace the intersecting paths of history, family, and comics that led to the creation, twenty-five years ago, of MAUS, his Pulitzer Prize winning comic book about the Holocaust. Pantheon Books will publish MetaMaus on October 4th. In the meantime, view additional material from the book and bonus DVD on Art Spiegelman’s Facebook page: Facebook.com/ArtSpiegelman Buy it: Amazon amzn.to Barnes & Noble bit.ly IndieBound bit.ly Other Retailers bit.ly
Video Rating: 4 / 5
From prose to prototype, there was something of a running science fiction theme for this episode of On The Verge. A trip to Industrial Light and Magic, live demos from Microsoft principal researcher Andy Wilson, a lively discussion on the science fiction gadgets we wish were real, and a very special contest / “GIF-away” you definitely want to hear more about. Get the details about how you could win a Ford Focus EV here: www.vergegifcontest.com “Apple line” image credits Alex Romero (@nightshadezero) twitter.com Rob DiCaterino via Wikimedia Commons commons.wikimedia.org Drew Crofton via Wikimedia Commons commons.wikimedia.org Elvert Barnes via Flickr www.flickr.com Additional still images from I Am Legend promotional trailer and Fallout 3 promotional materials
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Wow those old RAW’s are worth loads now! Not that you bought them as “investments”, I’m sure! I have three issues I managed to procure off E-Bay and the “Read Yourself Raw” anthology of bits from the first three issues….with the “Two Fisted Painters” and Mark Beyer trading cards intact and uncut, too! Have you read any Arcade magazines, the anthology Spiegleman edited with Bill Griffith in the 70′s? There’s some amazing stuff in there, too. Lotta great “underground” cartoonists.
While reading, you have the time to just stop and think. (ok, you stop a movie, unless you’re in the cinema, but who does that?)
I really advice you to read it, instead of waiting for a movie which will never come!
I disagree on that.
I’ve read it and loved it for the fact that it is a comicbook. In a sense, the drawings are not pretty. this thing helps the story. I cannot imagine that the filmversion would have the same qualities. A story as famous as mouse will atract big movie compagnies who don’t want to make an ugly movie… Even the fixed speed of a movie would not allow you to let it all sink in properly. A story as the Holocaust is a very difficult and harsh one, which needs some time to set.
You are a true artist, Mr. Spiegelman. Taking what you know and how you feel and channeling it into your work. That’s what makes you, and your work, so special.
-A new fan
0:59 – “Never again!”
You can and should say that about Holocaust…
But also about the same old questions journalists and students keep asking like an answering machine or a cash dispenser…
i luv this
I never read this book.. It looks REALLY good! If I enjoy it, maybey they should make it into a movie!
My mom is jew… I wonder if I could be a frog or a mouse, then
indeed xD and my dad is jew
Totally loving this book thus far!
Sounds a little ironic, uh ?
I named my cat after Vladek <3
excelente libro!..uno de los mejores del siglo XX
This is a coincidence. I just re-read Maus for perhaps the fourth or fifth time over many years, and finished it today with no knowledge of the Renaissance the book has been enjoying. I learned of MetaMaus only minutes after closing the novel this afternoon, on Wikipedia.
I’m eager to own this, of course.
Thank you, Mr. Spiegelman, for so much.
I might mention also my great admiration for In the Shadow of No Towers among other works of yours (I never missed an issue of RAW).
How beautiful. Sold.
It´s funny how in the beginning Mr. Spielgelman sounds a little bit like trying to justify why he put together this book, and of course, he shouldn´t! This book is necessary. It´s not something he´s making to get a few more pounds in his bank account.
But I will stick with the MAUS and not buy this one.
Best book I ever wrote a term paper on in college. I remember analyzing how the introduction to each chapter was based on a conversation with his father, that somehow connected to the themes of the holocaust story that followed. MetaMaus may be the first book I’ve bought in years.
I just realized that my iPhone line picture was used in this! Neat!
Tell me about the theme song, i wanna listen to a longer version of it….
Thanks.
Couldn’t agree more… they just think its a joke…
29:50 is where sh*t gets awesome
i watched 1 engadget episode after you left Joshua; then i unsubscribed. glad you’re doing this again with your own ideas in mind
Self lacing trainers.
OMG!!! Joshua! Please, i love your show and the verge site is almost perfect. But i was really interested in what the microsoft guy had to say and show. And you just COMPLETELY ruined it with trying to make fun of EVERYTHING. Come on, why invite such a interesting person and just interrupt with bad jokes. Come on!
40:40 .That is all.
The Verge is such haters of WP…
It’s sad. WP is my favorite by far, after using all 3 major OS’s
Paul miller is wonderful
zachery levis cousin?
miss you guys. well done.
Mine is the exact same as Nilay, I want to be invisible, and when I am visible I want to read peoples minds.
He was to funky for it! lol:)
Somebody make Nilay a favor and throw away his ugly bracelate…it probably stinks anyway.
Microsoft is ripping off.. again
watch?v=YrtANPtnhyg
This episode is brilliant!
What happened to HD guys?
Damn, I really like Josh’s Android favoritism! It makes me smile every time he mentioned putting Android into that 8X. That’s EXACTLY what HTC has to do.
I miss “New Thing”
Fuck josh and his hate for windows, it’s disgusting now
Ya Man Sony Xperia Nexus sounds cool
Can you make a video for the next On the Verge telling us if we should sniff pears?
only difference its running win8 os!
Was this episode done at a different studio than the last episode? Studio audience configuration looks different.