Diana Chan

3 weeks ago | pbs.org | Diana Chan

American Masters is pleased to announce that we have received a total of three Webby nominations this year in the following categories:Video & Film—Series & Channels: DocumentaryExplore new documentary shorts about artists who defy the odds to create remarkable work. This ongoing series from American Masters showcases cultural trailblazers through short-form storytelling.

1 month ago | pbs.org | Diana Chan

Cartoonist Art Spiegelman, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, about his parents’ survival of the Holocaust, has had an immense impact on the world of comics throughout his career. A gifted artist since he was a young child in Queens, New York, Spiegelman started his career at Topps Chewing Gum at just 18 years old.

1 month ago | pbs.org | Diana Chan

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1 month ago | pbs.org | Diana Chan

TRANSCRIPT - Piles isn't the same thing as archiving, (chuckles) I've now discovered. I grew up with just shards of information. There's such a thing as Hitler and there's such a thing as World War II and there were concentration camps and somehow my parents were in them. They had these numbers on their arms, and my father would wake up screaming often. Yet I didn't have a context for all this. "Li'l Pitcher."- Washington Heights, New York City, a hired car ride home, circa 1954.

1 month ago | pbs.org | Diana Chan

TRANSCRIPT (light music) - This to me is one of the most important pages in the book. Vladek Spiegelman and Anja Spiegelman, Art's parents, were in the city of Sosnowiec, in Poland. The Nazis have hung four Jews publicly as punishment for trading on the black market. And it gives us a very large image that's also an unordered image. This page is spectacular in a sense. It's kind of unbounded. It's asking readers to slow down and to encounter a shred of the horror of what Vladek must have felt.