Adult Life

Adult Life

Art Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman moved to San Francisco from 1971 - 1975 where comix appeared. He moved back to NYC and began doing drawings and comics for the New York Times, village voice and playboy. Besides his cartooning career, Art Spiegelman edited several comix magazine. and became an instructor at the school of Visual Arts.

Spiegelman's career took flight with the publication of the first rendition of Maus in 1972. In 1979-1980 he co-founded RAW magazine, the acclaimed avant-garde, unconventional comics, with his wife, artist Françoise Mouly. In the pages of Raw, He helped reveal important Moriarty. For eleven years, Raw lavishly presented groundbreaking work by contemporary cartoonists.2



Spiegelman published Maus I in 1986 and Maus II in 1991 and received National book critics circle nominations for both. In 1992 he Won Special Pulitzer Prize for the masterful Holocaust narrative Maus.


Art Spiegelman lives in New York City with his wife and two children, Nadja and Dashiell. He received an honorary doctorate from Binghamton University in 1995.

"One work dominates what I have done," - Art Spiegelman (Photo by Nadja Spiegelman)

Timeline

1970: Art publishes "Prisoner from Hell Planet" (reproduced in Maus)
1972: Art publishes "Maus" in Funny Animals (3 page comic)
1975: Art meets the woman he will marry, Françoise Mouly (b. 1955)
1978: Art Spiegelman starts drawing Maus
1979, Aug.: Art and Françoise spend time in the Catskill mountians (NY) with Vladek
1980: Art and Françoise start the avant-garde magazine RAW
Art begins drawing Maus, which is serialized in RAW
1982, Aug. 18: Vladek dies of congestive heart failure
1986: first volume of Maus published
1987: Art and Françoise's daughter Nadja born
1991: second volume of Maus published
1992-: Art starts working for the New Yorker (he resigns some time after 9/11/2001)
1992: Art wins a Pulitzer Prize for Maus
1992: son Dashiell born
1993-: Françoise works as art editor at the New Yorker
2004: Art publishes In the Shadow of No Towers
2005: Art begins publishing a comix format memoir, Portrait of the Artist as a Young !@##$%!, which incorporates some of his most significant early underground comix.

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The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise. Art Spiegelman. 2012

Comic creator Lamblek. Art Spiegelman. 2012



BY: Sisi Xu