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The author Art Spielgeman (Ihtzak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman) was born February 15 of 1948 in Stockholm, Sweden.

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His parents left at the end of WWII, Spiegelman immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1951. The family settled in Queens, New York. Art Spielgeman was inmediatly inspired by the clever artwork and subversive humour of Mad magazine, studied cartooning.

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Spiegelman began drawing gag comics at age 12, he signed his name "Art Spieg". The comic MAD was a profound influence on Spiegelmanand it opened Spiegelman's mind to interesting artistic possibilities for comics and comic magazines.

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Spiegelman attended the State University of New York of art and design at Binghamton from 1965 to 1968, and he explored the alternative comics scene, in there He met Woody Gelman, the art director of Topps Chewing Gum Company, who encouraged Spiegelman to apply to Topps after graduating from high school

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Art's mother, Anja, survived the Holocaust, but committed suicide in May, 1968. After his mother’s suicide in 1968, Spiegelman left college without obtaining a degree.

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In the early 1970s, Spiegelman expressed admiration for feminist underground comic artists working in the male-dominated underground. Three male underground cartoonists inspired and encouraged Spiegelman to tell mature stories for adults that moved to more personal, psychologically-revealing stories exploring their family background, appealed to Spiegelman.

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In 1972 he published two strips that represented a break from his previous work. The first was Maus, originally a three-page story that appeared in cartoonist Justin Green’s Funny Animals anthology. The second, Prisoner on the Hell Planet, was an attempt to understand his mother’s suicide

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On July 12, 1977, Spiegelman married Françoise Mouly, a French architecture student with a penchant for the sophisticated work of French comic artists. They had two children, a daughter named Nadja Rachel, and a son named Dashiell Alan.

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Spiegelman began teaching at the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1978, and continued until 1987, teaching alongside his heroes Harvey Kurtzman and Will Eisner.

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Siegelman learned in 1985 that Steven Spielberg was producing an animated film about Jewish mice who escape persecution in Eastern Europe by fleeing to the United States. Spiegelman was sure the film, was inspired by Maus and became eager to have his unfinished book come out before the movie to avoid comparisons

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Spiegelman was comics editor of the New York Press in the early 1990s. He was comics editor of Details magazine in the late 1990s; he began assigning comics journalism pieces in Details to a number of his cartoonist associates, including Joe Sacco, Peter Kuper, Ben Katchor, Peter Bagge, Charles Burns, Kaz, Kim Deitch, and Jay Lynch. The magazine published these works of journalism in comics helping to legitimize the form in popular

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When it was released, Maus was like nothing anyone had ever seen before. It thwarted all efforts of categorization, and was listed on both non–fiction and fiction publication lists. In 1992, the Maus series won a special Pulitzer Prize, created specifically for Spiegelman's unique contribution to culture.

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In 1997, Spiegelman had his first children's book published, Open Me...I'm a Dog, with a narrator who tries to convince its readers that it is a dog via pop-ups and an attached leash.

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Spiegelman and his family were in their Lower Manhattan home when the first plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Their daughter was at Stuyvesant High School, located next to the towers, and they spent the day trying to locate her and her brother.

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In response to the terrorist attack of Septemeber 11 of 2001, Art Spiegelman's comic, In the Shadow of No Towers, narrates the artist's experience and survival terrorist attacks on lower Manhattan.

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Art Spiegelman won the Grand Prix at France’s Angouleme world comic strip festival.

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In the June 2006 edition of Harper's Magazine Spiegelman had an article published on the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy; some interpretations of Islamic law prohibit the depiction of Muhammad. The Canadian chain of booksellers Indigo refused to sell the issue.

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In 2008 Spiegelman reissued Breakdowns in an expanded edition including "Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!", an autobiographical strip that had been serialized in the Virginia Quarterly Review from 2005.

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In 2015, after six writers refused to sit on a panel at the PEN American Center in protest of the planned "freedom of expression courage award" for the satirical French periodical Charlie Hebdo, Spiegelman agreed to be one of the replacement hosts, along with the writer Neil Gaiman.

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In 2021, Literary Hub announced that Spiegelman was co-creating a work Street Cop with the author Robert Coover. Art Spielegeman was creating the illustrations in this work.

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