Art Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman is an American cartoonist and graphic novelist whose Pulitzer Prize–winning Maus transformed the comics medium and stands as one of the most powerful works of Holocaust literature.

Art Spiegelman emerged from the underground comix scene and co-founded the influential avant-garde magazine RAW, where his masterwork was first serialized.

Maus (collected 1986 and 1991) tells the story of his father’s survival of the Holocaust, depicting Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, while also portraying the fraught relationship between father and son. It became the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize and is widely credited with establishing comics as a serious literary and artistic form.

Spiegelman is recognized as one of the most important figures in the history of comics, and Maus endures as a landmark of both the medium and of Holocaust remembrance.