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Full Of Sith: Star Wars News, Discussions and Interviews

Special Release: Art Spiegelman

Full Of Sith: Star Wars News, Discussions and Interviews

Tha Mike Pilot, Bryan Young and Consetta Parker

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4.4779 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2013

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

The Pullitzer Prize winning graphic novelist Art Spiegelman joined Bryan for a lengthy interview about his career, but not before they talked about Star Wars. In fact, Spiegelman was the designer behind the original TOPPS trading cards.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Have you been in many battles?

0:02.0

Several, I think.

0:03.0

Actually, there's not much to tell.

0:05.0

I'm not much more than an interpreter and not very good at telling stories.

0:09.0

Well, not at making them interesting anyway.

0:11.0

... Welcome Masters and Padawans to another special episode of Full of Sin.

0:38.9

Today, I got a chance to talk to Art Spiegelman.

0:42.8

Some of you guys might not be familiar with Art Spiegelman.

0:45.4

He's a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novelist, an artist, and a designer.

0:52.7

He won the Pulitzer Prize for a graphiconomical mouse, which was about his father's

1:00.5

trials through Auschwitz and getting through the war, but drawn where all of the Jews

1:09.6

in the book were mice, and all of the Nazis were cats, and it's just a fascinating book.

1:17.0

It's really, really good, and you should get your hands on it.

1:21.5

And I was doing an interview with him about a whole bunch of different things across his career,

1:26.5

and he used to work for the Topps

1:28.5

card company.

1:30.0

He was the mind that created Garbage Pale Kids, and knowing he was at Topps, I wanted

1:37.1

to ask him about his experience with Star Wars, and his answer surprised me a little bit.

1:42.9

I didn't know this about him.

1:44.6

I'm not sure anybody really knew this about him.

1:47.4

But you can listen to the portion of our conversation about Star Wars, and we'll be back in a minute.

1:53.9

It's my theory that Star Wars is one of those cultural events that everyone knows.

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