Art Spiegelman, in a Democracy Now interview re PEN and Charlie Hebdo award

[Mark Kohut]

And it left me feeling kind of homeless, so I ended up having to focus
on trying to deal with what became an ongoing political commentary in
my sketchbook. And I was offered a no-editor clause from my friend
Michael Naumann, who had Die Zeit in Germany. I could have a full
broadsheet page any time I wanted it. And I was just working out these
series of In the Shadow of No Towers pages, with a no-editors clause,
to be able to just go where I needed to go, and soon found myself with
a coalition of the willing of a weekly magazine in France, a magazine
in Italy, in I think Argentina. The only place willing to publish me
in America, the only place for that material, was The Forward, who
politically I often didn't agree with, but I got the right of return,
because "You're Jewish. Whatever you want, we'll give you the back
page."

And we all remember who was the head of Holt when Mason & Dixon was
published. Spoiler: Michael Naumann.
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