Art Spiegelman
Comix Artist
Cartoonist Art Spiegelman is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus about his parents’ survival of the Holocaust, which remains the only graphic novel to win the accolade.
A gifted artist since he was a young child in Queens, New York, Spiegelman started his career at Topps Chewing Gum aged 18. In the early 1970s, he relocated to San Francisco, where he became involved in the underground comix movement and contributed to several comics, including an early version of Maus in Funny Aminals. After moving back to New York, he met his wife and collaborator, and art editor for The New Yorker, Françoise Mouly, who he worked with on the book Breakdowns and several New Yorker covers.
Spiegelman continues to create thought-provoking work that reflects his defence of free speech, and proves that comics are “as valid as anything that happened in literature, or in painting, or in cinema”.
