![]() It won a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992 and has gained a reputation as a pivotal work. The postmodern book depicts Germans as cats, Jews as mice, and ethnic Poles as pigs, and took 13 years to create until its completion in 1991. A selection of these strips appeared in the collection Breakdowns in 1977, after which Spiegelman turned focus to the book-length Maus, about his relationship with his father, a Holocaust survivor. He gained prominence in the underground comix scene in the 1970s with short, experimental, and often autobiographical work. Spiegelman began his career with Topps (a bubblegum and trading card company) in the mid-1960s, which was his main financial support for two decades there he co-created parodic series such as Wacky Packages in the 1960s and Garbage Pail Kids in the 1980s. In September 2022, the National Book Foundation announced that he would receive the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He is married to designer and editor Françoise Mouly, and is the father of writer Nadja Spiegelman. His work as co-editor on the comics magazines Arcade and Raw has been influential, and from 1992 he spent a decade as contributing artist for The New Yorker. Īrt Spiegelman ( / ˈ s p iː ɡ əl m ən/ born Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman on February 15, 1948) is an American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus. From the BBC programme Bookclub, February 5, 2012.
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