Art Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman was recently interviewed in Progressive. I just read this article and it got me thinking about the process of remediation and how just getting your thoughts onto the paper might be considered remediation. I'm not sure if it is, but the questions of what to represent and how to represent it come into question. Just like with our Sherlock Holmes remediation we have to take an excerpt of thoughts and represent it in some form or many forms. Does this work? I'm unsure, but its an interesting premise for me.

I've put an excerpt from the interview below:

Q: You often are quoted talking about how long it takes you to complete
a page of graphic work. How many drafts of a single page will you do
before you're satisfied with it?

Spiegelman: I can't even tell you. It's just like a mush on paper until
it comes together. Sometimes I'm drawing onto a computer directly,
sometimes I'm drawing on paper and redrawing on the computer from there,
so I can't really talk about drafts. It's just like having soft clay
until it hardens. At least as much of the problem has to do with the
decisions of what to represent, how to represent that, and how to reduce
it down. The words in the balloons aren't particularly poetic
necessarily, but it has the same problem as poetry, which is that one
has to do great reduction. If I say things the way I say them in
interviews, we'd have forty-page balloons. And if I tried to draw
everything, you'd just have a tangled mess of a picture. The stripping
down takes much longer than building up.