Art Spiegelman
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Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman, professionally known as Art Spiegelman, is a Polish-American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus.
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Liquidation at the Sosnowiec Ghetto in occupied Poland during World War II; Spiegelman tells of his parents' survival in Maus.
After Spiegelman's release from Binghamton State Mental Hospital, his mother died by suicide.
Spiegelman visited the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1979 as research for Maus; his parents had been imprisoned there.
Spiegelman and Will Eisner (photographed in 1982) taught at the School of Visual Arts from 1978 to 1987.
Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall begrudged Spiegelman's influence in New York cartooning circles.
"Gargantua", a cartoon critical of King Louis Philippe I, led to the imprisonment of its author, Honoré Daumier.
Spiegelman married Françoise Mouly in 1977 (pictured in 2015).In their own words 8
I didn't make Maus to teach anyone anything. I wasn't making "Auschwitz for Beginners." And I do not want Maus to ever be used as a recruiting poster for the Israeli army!
Speaking through a mouse-headed self-insert character in the February 2025 comic in the Guardian made with Joe Sacco "Two artists, one
I never intended it to be for young adults, children, whatever. But over the years I’ve had to change my opinion.
On his book Maus, in an interview with Democracy Now! (2 February 2022)
I was asking the school shrink, 'Has anyone ever told you the top of your head looks like a penis?' I thought that was a really funny thing to tell a bald shrink.
As quoted in "Breakfast with the FT: Art Spiegelman 'Drawn from Memory'" in Financial Times (29 November 2008).
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In their orbit 4
Connected to Art 6
Paul DiniAlso in Comic Book Literacy (2009)
Scott McCloudAlso in Comic Book Literacy (2009)
Joe QuesadaAlso in Comic Book Literacy (2009)
Alejandro JodorowskyAlso won Yellow Kid Award
Marjane SatrapiAlso won Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Best Album
Samuel BarberAlso won Edward MacDowell MedalAbout this person
Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman, professionally known as Art Spiegelman, is a Polish-American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus. His work as co-editor on the comics magazines Arcade and Raw has been influential, and from 1992 he spent a decade as contributing artist for The New Yorker. He is married to designer and editor Françoise Mouly and is the father of writer Nadja Spiegelman. In September 2022, the National Book Foundation announced that he would receive the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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