At the time, Maus was doing well in shops, but found it in "company" with crowded shelves of "dungeons and dragons manuals", and the book really "needed to be separate from Garfield collections". When Spiegelman spoke to Auster 25 years ago about creating some graphic novels, and then, finally, about helping with an adaptation of his book, Spiegelman was facing an uphill struggle to bring the "novel" to the graphic medium.
"As we know most of these adaptations don't work", Auster said, so the success of City of Glass is a rare thing. Auster clarified at the outset of the discussion that for him, the graphic novel is not a translation, but an adaptation, and as with films, adaptations are plagued with difficulties.
It may have surprised fans at the panel to learn that Paul Auster and Art Spiegelman are close friends, and that Spiegelman attempted several times to lure Auster into creating graphic novels well before the adaptation of City of Glass.
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