10th
August
2001
No laughing matter
“Gary Groth read ‘Reinventing Comics’ during the quiet dark hours when night turns into morning. The co-owner of esteemed comic book publisher Fantagraphics Books was in France, it was the summer of 2000 and his Riviera host Robert Crumb — creator of Zap Comix and other ’60s, psychedelic comic sensations — slept soundly in a room nearby. Art Spiegelman, author of ‘Maus,’ the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, also slumbered under the same roof without concern. But Groth stayed awake…”