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Feb 12, 2012 · Timeline of Events in Maus and Spiegelman's Life (back to top) 1906, Oct. 11: Vladek Spiegelman born; 1912, March 15: Anja Zylberberg born; 1927: Vladek starts his first service in the Polish army (conscripts must train every 4 years) 1937, Feb. 14: Vladek and Anja marry (he is age 30, she 24)
Feb 11, 2022 · February 11, 20221:26 PM ET. Heard on Fresh Air. Terry Gross. 13-Minute Listen. Playlist. Spiegelman's graphic novel, which was recently banned by a school district in Tennessee, tells the...
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Dec 27, 2022 · Art Spiegelman on Life With a ‘500-Pound Mouse Chasing Me’. Known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book, “Maus,” the author has had a busy year, after the book was banned and jump ...
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• 1948, Feb. 15: Art Spiegelman is born in Stockholm • 1951: Spiegelman family immigrates to US, Art grows up in Queens, New York • 1965: Art attends the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan • 1968, ca. March: Art has a brief but intense nervous breakdown & is hospitalized o May 21: Anja commits suicide after Art returns home
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Art Spiegelman's parents were Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, the attempt by German Nazis to destroy Europe's Jewishpopulation during World War II (1939–45). This simple fact would deeply affect their son's life and art. When they regained their freedom after the end of World War II, Vladek and Anja Spiegelman emigrated to Sweden, where they liv...
Graphic Novels
Maus, A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History(1986). Maus II, A Survivor's Tale: Here My Troubles Began(1992). (With Joseph Moncure March) The Wild Party: The Lost Classic by Joseph Moncure March(1999). In the Shadow of No Towers(2004).
Children's Books
Open Me … I'm a Dog. (1997). (Editor, with Françoise Mouly) Little Lit. 3 vols. (2000–03).
Comic Books and Magazines
Work and Turn(1979). (Editor, with Françoise Mouly, and contributor) Raw(1980–91). (With Robert Crumb, Robert Williams, Kim Deitch, and Tony Millionaire) Legal Action Comics2 vols. (2005). Though Spiegelman's parents would have preferred that he become a doctor or dentist, young Art chose his career early. He studied cartooning at New York's High School of Art and Design. By the age of fifteen he had taken his first paying job at a weekly newspaper in Queens, and by the age of seventeen he ha...
The 1960s and 1970s were periods of radical social change and experimentation in the arts. Comic art was no exception, and a dynamic underground "comix" movement began to push the limits of acceptable content and style in comics. These new comix reflected the radical politics, outrageous behavior, and blatant sexuality that characterized the 1960s ...
Spiegelman had begun to draw Maus in 1978, and it took thirteen years to complete. The story is told from the point of view of his father, and Spiegelman taped hours of conversations with Vladek, who died in 1982. The completed work was published as a graphic novel in two parts: Maus, a Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (1986) and Maus II, ...
The humor magazine that sparked Art Spiegelman's interest in cartooning has been an inspiration to generations of other comics artists as well. Founded in 1952 by publisher Bill Gaines, Madhas provided social and political satire and outright goofiness to its readers for more than half acentury. Bill Gaines was the owner of EC Comics, publisher of ...
In 1993, Spiegelman joined the staff of the New Yorker magazine as a regular artist and writer. His cover art, comics, and commentary fit well with the magazine's forward-thinking intellectual image, though they were often controversial. In 1997, he wrote and illustrated a children's book called Open Me … I'm a Dog, and he and Mouly began to edit a...
Books
Forget, Thomas. Art Spiegelman. New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 2004. Witek, Joseph. Comic Books as History: The Narrative Art of Jack Jackson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1990.
Periodicals
Bolhafner, J. Stephen. "Art for Art's Sake: Spiegelman Speaks on RAW's Past, Present and Future." Comics Journalno. 145 (October 1991): pp. 96–100. Doherty, Thomas. "Art Spiegelman's Maus: Graphic Art and the Holocaust." American Literature68, no. 1 (March 1996): pp. 69–85. Dreifus, Claudia. "Art Spiegelman: 'If There Can Be No Art about the Holocaust, There May at Least Be Comic Strips."' The Progressive(November 1989): pp. 34–38. Mason, Wyatt. "The Holes in His Head." The New Republic(Septe...
Web Sites
"Art Spiegelman." Pantheon Graphic Novels. http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/graphicnovels/spiegelman.html(accessed on May 3, 2006). Little Lit. http://www.little-lit.com/(accessed on May 3, 2006). "New York Voices: Art Spiegelman." Thirteen: WNET New York. http://www.thirteen.org/nyvoices/transcripts/spiegelman.html(accessed on May 3, 2006). Smith, Christopher Monte. "Very Interesting People: Art Spiegelman." BookSense.com. http://www.booksense.com/people/archive/spiegelmanart.jsp (accesse...
Oct 5, 2011 · 30-Minute Listen. Playlist. In his book Breakdowns, Art Spiegelman explains how Mad magazine saved his soul in the bland 1950s. Nadja Spiegelman. When cartoonist Art Spiegelman published...
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Maus, often published as Maus: A Survivor's Tale, is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman, serialized from 1980 to 1991. It depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor.
