Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker’s art editor since 1993:
"Art was very articulate about this and was explaining, 'No, this is making a point. It’s not just a pee-pee joke for the sake of, like, ‘Ooh, ooh, isn’t pee-pee funny!'' It had to do with the obscenity of the merchandising around Christmas time. We’re talking about the early nineties, when there are people homeless in the street—the inequality is contradicted by the over-merchandising of Christmas. And then a suggestion was made to him: 'Maybe it’s OK if it doesn’t mention the homeless.' And to him, that was really provocation for the sake of it."
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| © Art Spiegelman - 1993 |
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