Art Spiegelman – American cartoonist and writer, best known for «Maus», the groundbreaking graphic novel that earned him a Pulitzer Prize. Born to Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivors, he elevated comics into the realm of serious literature. Beyond Maus, he worked for The New Yorker, created provocative covers, and played a central role in shaping the modern graphic novel.
✨ In Maus, Jews are portrayed as mice and Nazis as cats. 📚 Won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 – the first comic ever to do so. 🎨 Pioneered experimental, avant-garde comics in the 1960s. 🖊 Produced underground comix before moving into mainstream recognition. 🏛 Considered one of the revolutionaries who legitimised comics as art. 🌍 Born in Sweden, raised in the United States. 📖 Designed memorable and controversial covers for The New Yorker. 💡 His wife, Françoise Mouly, co-founded RAW magazine, showcasing alternative comics. 🙃 Curiously, he joked he became a cartoonist because he couldn’t choose between words and pictures. 😄 Amusingly, as a child he signed his drawings with a fake name to avoid parental criticism.