Works and Awards

      Over the years Art Spiegelman has done some incredible work, from completing 10 novels over a lengthy career as a Cartoonist,Writer and comic advocate. He began his career as an artist in 1966 doing Bazooka Joe gum comic books. In 1980, having been inspired by his father, a Jewish survivor of the holocaust, Spiegelman began to work on the first volume of of Maus, which was published by RAW magazine where Speigelman was working as an editor. The following year Maus was released as a graphic novel, becoming an instant critically acclaimed graphic novel and highly influential to artists. The novel was then published in a second edition in 1992, and Spiegelman was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, which is highly regarded as the noblest award for a novelist. Furthermore, he has been giving several other awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship, an Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album, and a nomination for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2005, he was named one of the 100 Most Influential People by Time magazine.

Awards

§  1982: Yellow Kid Award, Lucca, Italy, for Foreign Author 

§  1987: Inkpot Award

§  1988: Adamson Award, Sweden, for Maus

§  1988: Angoulême International Comics Festival, France, Prize for Best Comic Book, for Maus

§  1988: Urhunden Prize, Sweden, Best Foreign Album, for Maus

§  1990: Max & Moritz Prize, Erlangen, Germany, Special Prize, for Maus

§  1992: Pulitzer Prize Letters award, for Maus

§  1992: Eisner Award, Best Graphic Album (reprint), for Maus

§  1992: Harvey Award, Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Work, for Maus

§  1993: Angoulême International Comics Festival, Prize for Best Comic Book, for Maus part 2

§  1993: Sproing Award, Norway, Best Foreign Album, for Maus

§  1993: Urhunden Prize, Best Foreign Album, for Maus part 2

§  1999: Eisner Award, inducted into the Hall of Fame

§  2011: Angoulême International Comics Festival, Grand Prix

§  2012: Siegfried Unseld Preis

Bibliography

Author

§  Breakdowns: From Maus to Now, an Anthology of Strips. Nostalgia Press, 1977.

§  Maus

§  The Wild Party

§  Open Me, I'm A Dog (children's book)

§  Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits. Chronicle Books, 2001

§  In the Shadow of No Towers

§  Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!. Pantheon, 2008. 

§  Be a Nose

§  Jack and the Box. Toon Books, 2008. 

§  METAMAUS: Random House, New York: 2011.

-Great Lives from History: Jewish Americans : Art Spiegelman". Salem Press. Retrieved 2012-04-18.

-Art Spiegelman biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia

-www.pulitzer.org/

-http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Spiegelman.html

-http://www.adcglobal.org/archive/hof/2006/?id=302

-http://barclayagency.com/spiegelman.html