Art Spiegelman
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Biography
Art Spiegelman (born 1948) is the son of Vladek and Anja Spiegelman, Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivors who emigrated to the United States after the war. His brother Richieu died during the Holocaust before Art was born; his mother Anja killed herself in 1968, when Art was twenty. He studied cartooning at the State University of New York at Binghamton and became a founding editor of RAW, an avant-garde comics magazine, with his wife Francoise Mouly. Maus was serialized in RAW between 1980 and 1991. The collected volumes won a Pulitzer Prize Special Award in 1992 — the first graphic novel to receive the Pulitzer. Spiegelman has been an outspoken advocate for comics as a serious literary form and a fierce critic of Holocaust memory's institutionalization.