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| Name: |
Art Spiegelman | | Birth Date: |
February 15, 1948 | | Place of Birth: |
Stockholm, Sweden | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
Writer, Illustrator, Cartoonist |
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Biography of Art Spiegelman
3,831 words, approx. 13 pages
 Art Spiegelman's Maus stands "among the remarkable achievements in comics," according to Dale Luciano in Comics Journal. Maus, an epic parable of the Holocaust that substitutes mice and cats for human Jews and Nazis, marks a zenith in Spiegelman's...
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Biography of Art Spiegelman
3,709 words, approx. 12 pages
 Art Spiegelman, the son of Holocaust survivors, is one of the most prominent "second-generation" creators of depictions of the Holocaust and an important contemporary American sequential artist. Since the 1970s he has produced intellectually intriguing...



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Art Spiegelman Quotes
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 Art Spiegelman (born February 15 , 1948 ) is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic memoir, Maus . Unsourced What Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th century,...


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Art Spiegelman Information
1,504 words, approx. 5 pages
 Art Spiegelman (born February 15, 1948) is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel memoir,...




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 Newsweek
High Art.(cartoonist Art Spiegelman)(Interview)
08/30/2004: 736 words, approx. 3 pages Byline: Malcolm Jones Sometimes Art Spiegelman has a little trouble figuring out who he is. Especially when he travels, he says, "it's really an identity crisis. You know that form you fill out when you get on an airplane going abroad? I've...
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 New Criterion
Art Spiegelman: In the Shadow of No Towers.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
10/01/2004: 326 words, approx. 1 pages Art Spiegelman In the Shadow of No Towers. Pantheon Books, 42 pages, $19.95 Art Spiegelman is conversant in large-scale tragedy. His comic book Maus, which earned him a Pulitzer in 1992, painstakingly and painfully recounts his father's years in Auschwitz. Recently Spiegelman...
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 AP News
Writers: Don't expect 'Simpsons' to slow
7/29/2007: 325 words, approx. 1 pages TV's favorite animated family, "The Simpsons," already has a hit movie, a video game on the way, a new theme-park ride and the title of America's longest-running sitcom. So what's next? Plenty, according to creator Matt Groening and his team of writers, who spoke to...
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 The New York Observer
Writing, Religion, Nationality: A Close Look in the Mirror
5/22/2005: 1,047 words, approx. 4 pages Who We Are: On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer, edited by Derek Rubin. Schocken Books, 348 pages, $25.When I entered college, in the mid-1960's, my freshman class was asked to read two books over the summer: Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Joseph Witek
7,882 words, approx. 26 pages
 In the following essay, Witek presents a detailed analysis of Art Spiegelman's Maus, describing it as a significant work of art and literature that powerfully illustrates the impact of sequential art.
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Critical Essay by Harvey Pekar
3,461 words, approx. 12 pages
 In the following essay, Pekar provides a generally favorable assessment of Art Spiegelman's Maus, characterizing the work as significant, but contending that Spiegelman's depiction of humans as animals detracts from the urgency of his message by perpetuating ethnic stereotypes.
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"Prisoner on the Hell Planet: A Case History"
1,767 words, approx. 6 pages
 In "Prisoner on the Hell Planet: A Case History," Art Spiegelman describes in horrific detail, through pictures, his failed effort to overcome his mother's suicide. This dark, gloomy, depressing cartoon enables Spiegelman to express his feelings of loneliness, doubt, fear, anger, and blame and to indicate the lack of closure.
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