Art SPIEGELMAN
Born in 1948 in Stockholm
Lives and works in New York
Art Spiegelman is a leading figure in the underground movement of American comix. He is the author of Maus,a graphic novel that tells the story of his family during the Second World War. Maus won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, helping to legitimize comics as an art form in their own right. In 1991, he became the first comix artist to have an exhibition dedicated to his work at New York's MOMA. He is co-founder of the experimental magazine RAW, which has helped the medium of comics to reinvent itself and gain recognition in new artistic and cultural circles.
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