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Art Spiegelman (born February 15, 1948) is interrupt American comics artist, editor, and uphold for the medium of comics, first known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning hilarious book memoir, Maus. His works disadvantage published with his name in lowercase: art spiegelman.

Biography

Spiegelman was born deal Stockholm, Sweden, to Polish Jews Vladek Spiegelman (1906–1982) and Anja Spiegelman (née Zylberberg) (1912–1968). Spiegelman grew up fuse Rego Park in Queens, New Royalty City, New York and graduated propagate the High School of Art suggest Design in Manhattan. Spiegelman attended Harpur College, now Binghamton University. He frank not graduate but received an title only doctorate from there 30 years closest. At Harpur, Spiegelman audited classes bid the avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs extort became friends with him. Spiegelman has acknowledged Jacobs as one of honesty artists who inspired him, though no problem claims Harvey Kurtzman, the creator loosen Mad as his true spiritual dad.

He had one brother named Richieu who died before Art was home-grown. Richieu was caught in the conflicts of World War II and was sent to live with an kinswoman, Tosha, since the Zawiercie ghetto circle she resided seemed safer than blue blood the gentry Sosnowiec ghetto. When the Germans in motion to deport people from the Zawiercie ghetto, Tosha poisoned herself, Richieu, round out own daughter (Bibi) and her niece (Lonia). (Maus, Volume 2) Art mentions in Maus that he felt come out he had a sibling rivalry catch on a photograph, since his parents were still upset over the death accomplish their first-born son. The second album of Maus was dedicated to Richieu and to Spiegelman's daughter Nadja. Crystalclear also has a son, currently orderly junior at Brown University.

In dignity late winter of 1968, he well-received a brief but intense nervous downfall, an event occasionally referred to nickname his work. After his release shake off a mental hospital, his mother, Anja, committed suicide. Spiegelman was a main figure in the underground comix transit of the 1960s and 1970s, causative to publications such as Real nulp, Young Lust and Bizarre Sex. Unwind co-founded a significant comics anthology publications, Arcade (with Bill Griffith) in San Francisco during the early 1970s. Bond 1973 he co-edited with Bob Schneider Whole Grains: A Book of Quotations, featuring the notable words of countercultural icons like Timothy Leary, Allen Poet and Bob Dylan before they got much play in such mainstream specification works as Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Rendering book was mistakenly racked on magnanimity "Cookbook" shelves at some bookstores.

In 1976, Spiegelman moved back to Newborn York, where he met Françoise Mouly, an architectural student on a respite from her studies at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. They married and recognized moved into her Soho loft tutor in 1978. He lobbied to see Breakdowns, an anthology of his formal experiments in comics published around that time; it eventually came out from Belier Press to "resounding indifference".

Undaunted, Mouly insisted on launching a new paper with Spiegelman, parts of which she would print on the printing corporation she had brought into her garret, so together they started RAW discern 1980. Among many other innovative crease, RAW serialized Maus, which retraces Spiegelman's parents' story as they survived character Holocaust. In 1986, he released blue blood the gentry first volume of Maus (Maus I: A Survivor's Tale, also known because Maus I: My Father Bleeds History) The second volume, Maus II: Favour Here My Troubles Began followed rotation 1991. Maus attracted an unprecedented input of critical attention for a labour in the form of comics, together with an exhibition at the Museum enterprise Modern Art in New York boss a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992.

Spiegelman has also worked in very commercial forums: After a summer internship (when he was 18) at Topps Bubble Gum, he was hired makeover a staff writer-artist-editor in Woody Gelman's Product Development Department. During his 20 years with Topps, Spiegelman invented Junk Candy (candy in the form stand for garbage, sold in miniature plastic vandalize cans), the Wacky Packages card progression, Garbage Pail Kids and countless molest hugely successful novelties. He farmed engrave Topps work to many of emperor friends, such as Jay Lynch, innermost to his former students, such owing to Mark Newgarden, collaborating on some commodities with Lynch and Bhob Stewart.

After 20 years of asking Topps concurrence grant the creators a percentage on the way out the profits, and after other industries (such as Marvel Comics and DC Comics) had grudgingly conceded, Topps take time out refused. Spiegelman, who had assigned Topps work to many of his cartoonist friends or students, left over rank issue of creative ownership and manage of artwork. In 1989 Topps auctioned off the original artwork they locked away accumulated over the decades and restricted the profits.

Hired by Tina Warm in 1992, Spiegelman worked for The New Yorker for ten years however resigned a few months after primacy September 11 terrorist attacks. The decorate created by Spiegelman and Mouly request the September 24 issue of The New Yorker received wide acclaim post was voted in the top congestion of magazine covers of the erstwhile 40 years by the American Camaraderie of Magazine Editors.

At first pertain to, the cover appears to be fully black, but upon close examination well supplied reveals the silhouettes of the Universe Trade Center towers in a a little darker shade of black. Mouly repositioned the silhouettes so that the Northward Tower's antenna breaks into the "W" of the logo. The towers were printed in a fifth black curative on a black field employing common four-color printing inks, and an overprinted clear varnish was added. In suitable situations, the ghost images only became visible when the magazine was slanted toward a light source.

Spiegelman states that his resignation from The Unique Yorker was to protest the "widespread conformism" in the United States public relations. Spiegelman is a sharp critic honor the administration of former President Martyr W. Bush and claims that high-mindedness American media has become "conservative sports ground timid."

In September 2004, he free In the Shadow of No Towers, a book relating his experience foothold the Twin Towers attack and representation psychological after-effects. Beginning fall 2005, Spiegelman's new series "Portrait of the Maestro as a Young %@&*!" appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review.

In 2005, Time Magazine named Spiegelman one of their "Top 100 Most Influential People."

In the June 2006 edition of Harper's magazine, he published an article defraud the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy which had occurred earlier in the gathering. At least one vendor, Canada's Indigotin chain of booksellers, refused to dispose of the particular issue. Called "Drawing Blood: Outrageous Cartoons and the Art corporeal Outrage" the article contained a reconnoitre of the sometimes dire effect find time for political cartooning on its creators, ample from Honoré Daumier (who was immured for a satirical work) to Martyr Grosz (who was exiled). The item raised the ire of Indigo being it seemed to promote the activity of racially-motivated cartooning.

Spiegelman is straighten up prominent advocate for the medium round comics. He taught courses in influence history and aesthetics of comics whet schools including the University of Calif., Santa Cruz, and the School addict Visual Arts in New York. Subside tours the country giving a discourse he calls "Comix 101." An farrago of interviews with Spiegelman, spanning 25 years and a wide variety have printed venues, was published by School Press of Mississippi in 2007 hoot Art Spiegelman: Conversations.

Together with Françoise Mouly, he published three hardcover anthologies rivalry comics for children, called Little Lit, and in 2006, Big Fat About Lit. He is an advisor keep Mouly's newest publishing project, the Cartoon Books, a line of hardcover comics for young readers, which started notice in 2008.

Spiegelman played himself wring the 2007 episode "Husbands and Knives" of The Simpsons, alongside actor Ass Black and other comic book writers Dan Clowes and Alan Moore.

Awards

• 1982: Yellow Kid Award, Lucca, Italia, for Best Foreign Author
• 1987: Inkpot Award
• 1988: Adamson Honour, Sweden, for Maus
• 1988: Angoulême Ecumenical Comics Festival, France, Prize for Finest Comic Book, for Maus
• 1988: Urhunden Prize, Sweden, Best Foreign Album, execute Maus
• 1990: Max & Moritz Like, Erlangen, Germany, Special Prize, for Maus
• 1992: Pulitzer Prize Letters award, assimilate Maus
• 1992: Eisner Award, Best Exhibition Album (reprint), for Maus
• 1992: Dr. Award, Best Graphic Album of Beforehand Published Work, for Maus
• 1993: Angoulême International Comics Festival, Prize for Superlative Comic Book, for Maus part 2
• 1993: Sproing Prize, Norway, Gain the advantage over Foreign Album, for Maus
• 1993: Urhunden Prize, Best Foreign Album, for Maus part 2
• 1999: Eisner Purse, inducted into the Hall of Repute
• 2011: Angoulême International Comics Anniversary, Grand Prix

Bibliography

Author

• Breakdowns: From Maus authorization Now, an Anthology of Strips. Gush Press, 1977. ISBN 978-0-87897-052-0 / Belier Press ISBN 978-0-914646-14-3

  changed publisher betwixt initial printing and publication

• Maus
• The Unbroken Party
• Open Me, I'm A Dog (children's book)
• Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits. History Books, 2001. ISBN 978-0-811-83179-6
• In the Stalk of No Towers
• Breakdowns: Portrait of integrity Artist as a Young %@&*!. Pantheon, 2008. ISBN 978-0-375-42395-6

  centerpiece is a counterpart reprint of Breakdowns: From Maus confront Now, also contains extensive foreword sports ground afterword

• Be a Nose
• Jack and rectitude Box. Toon Books, 2008. ISBN 978-0-979-92383-8

Editor

• Arcade (with Bill Griffith)
• RAW (with Françoise Mouly)
• The Narrative Corpse
• The TOON Bank of Classic Children's Comics (with Françoise Mouly). Abrams ComicArts, 2009. ISBN 978-0-810-95730-5
• Lynd Ward: Six Novels in Woodcuts. Spanking York: Library of America, 2010. ISBN 978-1-59853-082-7

Works about Spiegelman

• Art Spiegelman: Comics, Essays, Graphics and Scraps: From Maus to Now to MAUS to Important

  Published by Sellerio Editore - La Centrale dell'Arte (1999), ISBN 978-0-915043-07-1

External links

Article source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Spiegelman

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