Art Spiegelman

About the Author

Art Spiegelman was born in Stockholm, Sweden on February 15, 1948. He is the son of Polish Jews who survived imprisonment in Auschwitz. His family immigrated to the United States. He became a professional cartoonist at the age of 16. He studied art and philosophy at Harpur College. He became a show more creative consultant, designer, and writer for Topps Chewing Gum, Inc., where he created Wacky Packages, Garbage Pail Kids and other novelty items. The Complete Mr. Infinity was published in 1970 and won the Joel M. Cavior Award for Jewish Writing. In 1980, Spiegelman and his wife, Françoise Mouly founded the avant-garde comics magazine RAW. His best known work Maus: A Survivor's Tale, was published in 1986 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. His other works include Maus: A Survivor's Tale II, In the Shadow of No Towers, Breakdowns, Jack and the Box, Be a Nose, and The Ghosts of Ellis Island. MetaMaus won the 2011 National Jewish Book Award in the Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir category. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Includes the names: Art Spiegelmn, Art Spiegelman, Art Speigelman, Art Spiegelman, Shpigel'man A., Mouly Spiegelman, ed. Art Spiegelman, comp Art Spiegelman, Art Spiegelman e.a., ארט ספיגלמן, Art Spiegelman, Editor, Art author. Spiegelman, Art Spiegelman, author, artist.

Image credit: Photo by Chris Anthony Diaz / Flickr

Series

Maus: A Survivor's Tale

RAW

Little Lit

Arcade: The Comics Revue

Short Order Comix

Works by Art Spiegelman

Popular Recent

Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (1986) 10,741 copies

The Complete Maus (1986) 8,799 copies

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (1991) 7,391 copies

In the Shadow of No Towers (2004) 1,224 copies

MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus (2011) 554 copies

Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies (2000) — Editor — 332 copies

Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! (1978) 307 copies

Strange Stories for Strange Kids (2001) 221 copies

It Was a Dark and Silly Night... (2003) 197 copies

Raw Vol. 2, No. 1: Open Wounds from the Cutting Edge of Commix (1989) — Editor — 195 copies

Jack and the Box (2008) 194 copies

Open Me... I'm a Dog! (1997) 191 copies

Jack Cole And Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits! (2001) 185 copies

The TOON Treasury of Classic Children's Comics (2009) 147 copies

Raw Vol. 2, No. 2: Required Reading for the Post-Literate (1990) — Editor — 145 copies

Raw Vol. 2, No. 3: High Culture for Low Brows (1991) — Editor — 133 copies

Big Fat Little Lit (2006) — Editor — 122 copies

Read Yourself Raw (1987) 107 copies

Be a Nose! (2009) 94 copies

Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps (2013) 72 copies

NEW-The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Pantheon Graphic Library) 34 copies

Whole Grains: A Book of Quotations (1973) 31 copies

The Narrative Corpse: A Chain-Story by 69 Artists (1995) 26 copies

Legal Action Comics, Volume 2 (2003) 25 copies

Raw No. 8: The Graphic Aspirin for War Fever (1982) — Editor — 22 copies

Comix, Essays, Graphics and Scraps: From Maus to Now to MAUS to Now (1998) 17 copies

New York's Most Wanted (2002) 16 copies

Raw No. 7: The Torn-Again Graphix Magazine (1985) — Editor — 16 copies

Raw No. 5: The Graphix Magazine of Abstract Depressionism (1983) — Editor — 14 copies

Raw No. 6: The Graphix Magazine That Overestimates the Taste of the American Public (1984) — Editor — 13 copies

Raw No. 1: The Graphix Magazine of Postponed Suicides (1980) — Editor — 13 copies

Raw No. 3: The Graphix Magazine that Lost Its Faith in Nihilism (1981) — Editor — 12 copies

Raw No. 4: The Graphix Magazine for Your Bomb Shelter's Coffee Table (1982) — Editor — 12 copies

Arcade: The Comics Revue No. 1 (1975) — Editor — 10 copies

Raw No. 2: the Graphix Magazine for Damned Intellectuals (1980) — Editor — 10 copies

Arcade: The Comics Revue No. 2 (1975) — Editor — 9 copies

Street Cop (2021) 9 copies

Arcade: The Comics Revue No. 5 (1976) — Editor — 8 copies

Arcade: The Comics Revue No. 7 (1976) — Editor — 5 copies

Arcade: The Comics Revue No. 6 (1976) — Editor — 5 copies

Arcade: The Comics Revue No. 3 (1975) — Editor — 5 copies

Little Lit Three-Book Collection (2001) 5 copies

Arcade: The Comics Revue No. 4 (1975) — Editor — 5 copies

Short Order Comix #2 (1974) 4 copies

Maus Now: Selected Writing (2023) 4 copies

Maus Edicion 40 Aniversario (Estuche) (2021) 4 copies

Autophobia (2008) 4 copies

Sleazy Scandals of the Silver Screen 3 copies

Swift Premium Comics 2 copies

Maus : bizirik irtendako baten kontakizuna (2022) 2 copies

Le Monde de Maus (2022) 2 copies

The Low-Tech Manual (1981) 2 copies

Garbage Pail Kids (2012) 2 copies

Maus I and II A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History And Here My Trouble Began 2 copies

Prisoner on the Hell Planet 2 copies

Maus - edizione integrale 1 copy

Arcade, the comics revue, no. 4, Winter 1975. 1 copy

Maus : ühe ellujäänu lugu. I, II, Isa lugu voolab temast välja. Ja siis mu hädad algasid (2018) 1 copy

Maus (Catalan) novela grafica Art Spiegelman - (2022) 1 copy

מאוס II : סיפורו של ניצול ; וכאן החלו צרותי 1 copy

מאוס - כרך 1 : אבא מדמם היסטוריה 1 copy

Maus en overlevendes fortelling 1 copy

Alter Alter Almanacco 1984 Supplemento 13 California — Author — 1 copy

BE A NOSE! - 4 VOLUMENES (Spanish Edition) (2010) 1 copy

Spiegelman, Art: BreakdownsTeil: Zugabe. / Von Martin Langbein u. Klaus Theweleit 1 copy

Little Lit. Seltsame Geschichten. (2002) 1 copy

Work and turn 1 copy

Si Lewen : The Parade: L'Odyssée d'un artiste (2021) 1 copy

Spiegelman, Art: BreakdownsTeil: [Hauptbd.]. / [Dt. Lettering: Dieter Kerl. Übers. aus d. Amerikan. von Heinz… 1 copy

Holocaust Memoir Digest: Maus I, A Suvivor's Tale, My Father Bleeds History 1 copy

History of Commix 1 copy

Jungian Analysts (1992) 1 copy

Comics 1 copy

Maus: A Survivor's Tale. Original Issues Numbers 1-6 [1980-1985] 1 copy

Short Order Comix #1 (1973) 1 copy

MAUS. Relat d'un supervivent 1 copy

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Associated Works

The New York Trilogy (1985) — Cover artist, some editions — 9,881 copies

McSweeney's Issue 13 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The Comics Issue (2004) — Contributor — 1,292 copies

City of Glass: The Graphic Novel (1994) — Introduction, some editions — 1,237 copies

Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima, Volume 1 (1973) — Introduction, some editions — 878 copies

The Future Dictionary of America (2004) — Contributor — 630 copies

The Wild Party (1928) — Illustrator, some editions — 567 copies

Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling (2017) — Illustrator, some editions — 562 copies

The Best American Comics 2007 (2007) — Contributor — 383 copies

An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories (2000) — Contributor — 365 copies

A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader (2018) — Illustrator — 240 copies

The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (2002) — Editor — 202 copies

The Best American Comics 2009 (2009) — Contributor — 179 copies

Six Novels in Woodcuts (2010) — Editor — 167 copies

An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories: v .2 (2008) — Contributor — 156 copies

In the Studio: Visits with Contemporary Cartoonists (2006) — Contributor — 145 copies

Prelude to a Million Years / Song Without Words / Vertigo (1933) — Editor — 111 copies

Agony (1987) — Editor — 111 copies

Gods' Man / Madman's Drum / Wild Pilgrimage (2010) — Editor, Introduction — 111 copies

Wacky Packages (2008) — Introduction — 98 copies

Krazy! The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art (2008) — Contributor, some editions — 85 copies

Bearing Witness: Stories of the Holocaust (1995) — Contributor — 81 copies

It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art (2018) — Contributor — 75 copies

The Apex Treasury of Underground Comics / The Best of Bijou Funnies (1981) — Contributor — 73 copies

The New Comics Anthology (1991) — Contributor — 68 copies

Nothing Makes You Free: Writings by Descendants of Jewish Holocaust Survivors (2002) — Contributor — 66 copies

Vertigo (1937) — Editor, some editions — 60 copies

Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel (2015) — Contributor — 58 copies

Wild Pilgrimage (1932) — Editor, some editions — 56 copies

SPX: EXPO 2001 (2001) — Contributor — 53 copies

Little Nemo's big new dreams (2015) — Foreword — 44 copies

Perdita Durango (1995) — Designer — 40 copies

Streetwise: Autobiographical Stories by Comic Book Professionals (2000) — Contributor — 40 copies

Wacky Packages: NEW NEW NEW (2010) — Author, some editions — 38 copies

Who We Are: On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer (2005) — Contributor — 27 copies

The Best of Bijou funnies (1975) — Contributor — 9 copies

Forgotten Fantasy - Sunday Comics, 1900-1915: Visions from Lyonel Feininger, Winsor McCay and Many More (Giants of the… (2005) — Contributor — 9 copies

World War 3 Illustrated #37: Unnatural Disasters — Contributor — 5 copies

Bijou funnies, No. 2 — Illustrator, some editions — 4 copies

World War 3 Illustrated #34: Taking Liberties (2003) — Contributor — 4 copies

Mineshaft #31 (2014) — Contributor — 3 copies

World War 3 Illustrated #33: The Situation (2002) — Contributor — 2 copies

Mondo Snarfo: Surrealistic Comix (1978) — Contributor — 2 copies

Turned on cuties — Contributor — 1 copy

Linus. Giugno 2018 (Linus 2018) — Author — 1 copy

Linus. Maggio 2018 (Linus 2018) — Cover artist — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Spiegelman, Art
Legal name: Spiegelman, Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev
Birthdate: 1948-02-15
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Poland
Sweden
Country (for map): USA
Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden
Places of residence: New York, New York, USA
San Francisco, California, USA
Education: State University of New York, Binghamton
Occupations: editor
illustrator
Relationships: Mouly, Françoise (wife)
Spiegelman, Nadja (daughter)
Organizations: RAW
Topps
The New Yorker
Awards and honors: Grand Prix de la Ville d'Angoulême (2011)
National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (2022)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2015)
Pulitzer Prize (1992)

Members

Discussions

Group Read: Maus by Art Spiegelman in Book talk (June 2022)

Site Read—Maus? in Talk about LibraryThing (February 2022)

AUGUST READ - SPOILERS - The Complete Maus in The Green Dragon (August 2013)

Reviews

In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman

Very surprising, innovative graphic narration of September 11th by eyewitness Spiegelman, author of award-winning MAUS. The book is enormous, literally and figuratively, and I found the author's obsession with one particular image of the towers--his rendering of it appears on almost every page--haunting. Unlike MAUS, SHADOW is full color, with a frantic and scattered pacing. The book is printed on World Trade Center-sized, thick posterboard paper (as if Spiegelman needed his story to last, since the towers didn't). SHADOW also includes a discussion of the history of comics, circa late 1800s, and how they influenced/recorded politics and societal mores. Appended are several plates that illustrate Spiegelman's comics essay.

Highly recommended for lovers of graphic novels, historians, and democrats--or anyone disheartened by America's sharp ethical decline since the Bush administration took office.… (more)

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prairiemage | 22 other reviews | May 29, 2024 |

Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman

Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards

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benrowe05 | 254 other reviews | Apr 29, 2024 |

Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman

This book is good for students at an advanced level. It tells the story of someone who went through the Holocaust and shows how people survived during that time in history. People from different countries are represented as various animals. For example, Jews are portrayed as mice, and Nazis are portrayed as predatory cats. I would introduce this book to my classroom as a read-aloud to guide and help my students through the important themes and contexts throughout this story.

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JulianV7 | 254 other reviews | Apr 8, 2024 |

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman

This is the second book that Art Spiegelman wrote. It follows the story of the first one where Art's father, Vladek, recounts his experience in the holocaust. The second book goes through more of how Vladek survived in Auschwitz. The story also builds on Art's relationship with his father and relating a lot of the things he does to surviving the holocaust. I would use this book in a high school classroom because it has more language and more mature themes than the first book. (135 pages).

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