Comic in the Museum of Modern Art - H.-U. Obrist, R. Kramb, A. Shpigelman, D. Karlyn, B. Filonenko.

"Lichtenstein did no more for comics than Warhol did for soup," said Art Spiegelman, author of the graphic novel "Mouse" and editor of RAW magazine, returning to the question of the relationship between comics and art. The exhibition High and Low: Contemporary Art [and] Popular Culture (MMA, New York, 1990), which featured American comics alongside works by Juan Miro, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Philip Gaston, and others, outraged the independent comics community. Spiegelman published a comic against the exhibition in Artforum magazine, and fifteen years later he consulted on the Masters of the American Comic (Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art, 2005) exhibition, with no works by contemporary artists at all.

Is the history of modern art possible without a comic book? What separates pop art and underground comics? How do American comic artists see their own canon? The answers to these questions are offered by curators, art critics, comic book critics and comic book authors in the fourth book of the Small Run Books series.