Art Spiegelman is an icon of the ninth item, The author of Maus, the only comic to have ever won a Pulitzer – in which his father tells him how he survived the nazi death camps – has been another artistic life outside of this masterpiece, hailed in its time by Umberto Eco, but Spiegelman has long felt like a prisoner. In the 1970s and 1980s, with his wife Francoise Mouly (now the artistic director of the New Yorker), he co-founded the magazine graphic avant-garde in the Raw, where the greatest artists of decades past and to come (Robert…
