Maus, Spiegelman’s meticulously researched exploration of his parents’ Holocaust experience, in which he depicts Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, was serialized in RAW from 1980 to 1991. In 1980, Spiegelman and his wife, the French-born designer Françoise Mouly, founded the avant-garde comics magazine RAW. Along with Bill Griffith, Spiegelman was the creator and editor of the 1970s magazine-sized comics anthology Arcade. During his more than two decades with Topps Bubble Gum Co., Spiegelman created the witty and iconic trading card series Wacky Packages and Garbage Pail Kids. Spiegelman was an influential figure in the underground comix subculture of the 1960s and 1970s. Spiegelman went on to study art and philosophy at Harpur College (now Binghamton University) in New York, but dropped out after his mother committed suicide. Spiegelman’s artistic talents were recognized early on, and he began cartooning professionally as a teenager. Spiegelman came to the United States in 1950, and one of his memories of their arrival by ship was of being perched on his father’s shoulders at two years old as his father “excitedly pointed at the giant lady standing in the water to welcome us to New York.”Īfter living briefly in Pennsylvania, his family settled in Queens, New York. Most of his family, including his brother - his parents’ only other child - perished during the war. Art Spiegelman was born in post-World War II Stockholm, Sweden, to Polish Jewish parents who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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