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By Telling Art Spiegelman To Ditch A Trump Reference, Marvel Betrayed Its Own History

JL;DR SUMMARY The article examines the controversy involving Art Spiegelman, a renowned cartoonist known for his Holocaust narrative 'Maus,' and Marvel Comics. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustDonald TrumpArt SpiegelmanComic BooksMarvel ComicsJewish CreatorsCaptain AmericaRed Skull

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London, United Kingdom
"So when the Folio Society, a London publisher of glossy illustrated tomes, approached him to write the introduction for its collection of archival Marvel comics Marvel: The Golden Age 1939-1949, co-published with Marvel, he agreed despite noting that hes never been particularly enamored of the superhero genre."
Palm Beach, Florida, United States
"I learned that the billionaire chairman and former CEO of Marvel Entertainment, Isaac Ike Perlmutter, is a longtime friend of Donald Trumps, an unofficial and influential adviser and a member of the presidents elite Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, Spiegelman writes at the end of his essay."

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