 A joint ZDF – BBC documentary Art Spiegelman 's Maus was televised in 1987 . Spiegelman , Mouly , and many of the Raw artists appeared in the video documentary Comic Book Confidential in 1988 . Spiegelman played himself in the 2007 episode " Husbands and Knives " of the animated television series The Simpsons with other comics creators Daniel Clowes and Alan Moore . A European documentary Art Spiegelman , Traits de Mémoire appeared in 2010 and later in English under the title The Art of Spiegelman , directed by Clara Kuperberg and Joelle Oosterlinck and mainly featuring interviews with Speigelman and those around him . 
