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Art Spiegelman's Marvel essay 'refused publication for Orange Skull Trump dig'

Written By Unknown on Friday, August 16, 2019 | 12:02 PM

Maus author says he was told the comics giant – whose chairman is a prominent Trump supporter – was trying to remain apolitical

Art Spiegelman, the legendary graphic novelist behind Maus, has claimed that he was asked to remove criticism of Donald Trump from his introduction to a forthcoming Marvel book, because the comics publisher – whose chairman has donated to Trump’s campaign – is trying to stay “apolitical”.

Spiegelman, who won a Pulitzer prize for Maus, his story of the Holocaust, has written for Saturday’s Guardian that he was approached by publisher the Folio Society to write an introduction to Marvel: The Golden Age 1939–1949, a collection ranging from Captain America to the Human Torch.

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