Narrative: Outside Visit - Miami Book Fair // Art Spiegelman

   I saw the presentation "Celebrating Si Lewin with Art Spiegelman and Charles Kochman". Art Spiegelman is best known for his "Maus" comics, and he was great, he was really funny and casual about the whole presentation. He talked about Si Lewin's "Parade" which talks about his experiences with the war in a book that contains no words, only drawings made by Si Lewin himself. During the presentation they pulled out a copy of the accordion style book and asked two volunteers to come up and hold the book open, and of course they broke the book in half *spiegelman proceeds to make joke about breaking the book*. Spiegelman also talked about Si Lewin's other art which was very deep and dark, he also mentioned that he developed severe arthritis and attempted to cut off his right hand. Lewin survived the attempt and continued to make sculptures, one of which was a bunch of hands rising up out of the ground. Once the "Parade" book was finally finished Lewin was so happy with how it turned out and then just 10 days later he passed away, it's as if he was waiting for the book to be finished.