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Art Spiegelman is best known for his masterful two-volume Holocaust narrative, Maus, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992.
Born in Stockholm in 1948, Spiegelman rejected his parents' aspirations for him to become a dentist and began to study cartooning in high school and drawing professionally at age 16. He went on to study art and philosophy at Harpur College before becoming part of the underground comics movement. As creative consultant for Topps Bubble Gum Co. from 1965-1987, Spiegelman designed Wacky Packages, Garbage Pail Kids and other novelty items, and taught history and aesthetics of comics at the School for Visual Arts in New York from 1979-1986.
He was the cofounder/editor, with wife Francoise Mouly, of RAW, the acclaimed magazine of avant-garde comics and graphics. In addition to publishing many other innovative works, RAW serialized MAUS, Mr. Spiegelman's Holocaust narrative, in which Jews are portrayed as mice and Nazis as cats. MAUS attracted an unprecedented amount of critical attention for a work in the form of comics, including an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992.
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| Spiegelman has been honored with a Guggenheim fellowship, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People. His last book, In the Shadow of No Towers, was selected by the New York Times as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2004. In Fall 2008, he will be publishing a new edition of his 1978 anthology Breakdowns with Pantheon Books, and a children's comic called Jack and the Box with Toon Books. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children. |
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