Maus

Art Spiegelman is an American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate whose graphic memoir Maus (1991) is considered the most important work in the history of comics as serious literary art. Born in Stockholm in 1948 to Polish Jewish Holocaust survivors, Spiegelman grew up in Queens, New York, and studied art and philosophy at Harpur College. Maus, which depicts the Holocaust through Spiegelman's interviews with his father Vladek and renders Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, won the Pulitzer Prize Special Award in 1992—the first comic book ever to receive a Pulitzer Prize—and is credited with transforming public and critical understanding of what comics can achieve as narrative art. Read more →