Art Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman is an American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus.

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, where he made several high-profile and sometimes controversial covers.

He is married to designer and editor Françoise Mouly and is the father of writer Nadja Spiegelman.

Date of birth:
15th February, 1948
"The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them – the ‘physical book,’ a new phrase in our language – is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages."
― Art Spiegelman
Topic(s): Technology
"With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure."
― Art Spiegelman
Topic(s): Trust

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