Early Life

Early Life


to approx. age 20~


Brief Biography


Name: Art Spiegelman (or) Arthur Spiegelman
Born: 15 February 1048.
Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden.



"Art Spiegelman has, according to the LA Weekly, almost single-handedly brought comic books out of the toy closet and onto the literature shelves."

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Arthur Spiegelman was born in Stockholm Sweden. His family immigrated to the United States in 1951, and spent his early life in Rego Park, New York. Art attended High school of art and design in manhattan His parents wished him to become a dentist. Instead, Spiegelman studied cartooning in high school and started drawing professionally at age sixteen. He majored in art and philosophy at Binghamton University's Harpur College of Arts.
He left college two years after without a degree, following a brief but intense nervous breakdown and was hospitalized .


Spiegelman's early career began in 1966, working for Topps Gum Company. He stayed as creative consultant for almost twenty years(1966-1987) until a dispute over the ownership of his original artwork caused him to leave.
After leaving college in 1969 , he joined the underground comix movement. (1)



Timeline

1948, Feb. 15: Art Spiegelman is born in Stockholm
1951: Spiegelman family immigrates to US, Art grows up in Queens, New York
1965: Art attends the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan
1968, ca. March: Art has a brief but intense nervous breakdown & is hospitalized
May 21: Anja commits suicide after Art returns home

Art leaves Harpur college/SUNY Binghamton (major: art & philo)

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1. underground comix and the underground press
Late 1960s saw the emergence of underground comics, a new wave of humorous, hippie-inspired comic books that dealt with social and political subjects like sex, drugs, rock music and anti- war protest.


DirectorsClub. Art Spiegelman. 2006

GradeSaver. Biography of Art Spiegelman. 2012


BY: Sisi Xu