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His obituary for Mad artist Antonio Prohias in the New York Times magazine was, for a tribute, unbearably self-referential (two paragraphs discussed Prohias, the other five discussed Spiegelman).
Such self-referential questions can be pointless and irritating, and books that dwell on them generally belong in a category that one friend of mine calls "art about art supplies."
Ray's works--including portraits of him masturbating and a fiberglass re-creation of an auto wreck--are faulted for being self-referential, overly clever, and emotionless.
Not only do they "retreat into bedrooms which seem as self-contained as an astronaut's capsule, each with its own TV, stereo-system and wired-up computer," but into an "increasingly self-referential and self-validating" worldview.
Though a few stories are on par with his earlier work, most reviews find the collection riddled with self-referential tics and self-consciousness.