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Biography

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...


Quotations
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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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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Art Spiegelman Information
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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 graphic novel memoir,...


News and Journals
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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...
 


Criticism and Essays
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.
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 88%
"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. It's a discriptive essay.


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