Chabon, Cartoonists Petition for Auschwitz Paintings

More than 450 artists, cartoonists and comic book creators, including Michael Chabon, have signed a petition urging a Polish museum to return eight paintings created by an the elderly California woman who painted them while in Auschwitz, Kansas City infoZine reported today.

Other creators include Stan Lee and Art Spiegelman (Maus).

“The fundamental principle that art belongs to the artist who create it is recognized everywhere except totalitarian countries,” the petition signed by the artists said.

The group, organized by veteran comics artist Joe Kubert, called on the museum to return the paintings to Dina Gottliebova Babbitt, a retired Hollywood animator who animated famed characters like Wile E. Coyote, Speedy Gonzalez, Cap’n Crunch, Daffy Duck, and Tweety Bird.

The museum has argued the paintings should remain in the museum to help document the Holocaust.



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