The AGO announced today that they're giving Toronto comic books for the holidays:Art Spiegelman's CO-MIX: A Retrospectivewill run from December 20, 2014 - March 14, 2015. Pulitzer Prize winner and one of the Time's 100 Most Influential People, theMauscartoonist's work is a thrill to see in person: layers upon layers of drawings go into each panel of aSpiegelman漫画,修正液伤痕和camera-resistant blue pencil sketches - I'm all a flutter just thinking about it.

The AGO exhibit will include rarely seen works from Spiegelman's early career (including his teens); original drawings such as cover art fromThe New Yorker, 2004'sShadow of No Towers, and Topps Chewing Gum concept sketches, as well as an autobiographical continuous strip calledPortrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*!. Art Spiegelman is probably best known for Pulitzer Prize winningMaus, a devastating rendition of Spiegelman's parents' experiences under the Nazis, first in Poland and eventually in Auschwitz.

Art Spiegelman's CO-MIX: A Retrospectivewill run from December 20, 2014 - March 14, 2015 at the Art Gallery of Ontario

Lead image from Maus