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From SLATE: Making Comics after Mauschwitz

http://www.slate.com/id/2202974/slideshow/2203174/fs/0//entry/2203177/

Art Spiegelman

Or consider “Ace Hole, Midget Detective” (1974), a sendup of a hard-boiled detective comic. Here Floogleman, a Spiegelman stand-in, is shot and, with his last breath, gasps, “W-Who killed the child within … ?” Ace Hole jumps on the case. He chases down a dame modeled after one of Picasso’s Dora Maar portraits and finds that she has shacked up with Mr. Potato Head and that together these in loco parental figures have decided to frame him for the murder of Floogleman (aka, the child within). Ace Hole wakes up in an ocean of tears and observes: “Reality wasn’t a very nice place to visit, but there was nowhere else to go!”

And so Spiegelman went.

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By David Shrigley