Art Spiegelman

Born in Stockholm, Spiegelman started out as a comic strip artist in a series of underground magazines and founded Raw with his wife Françoise Mouly in 1980. In 1986, he released the first volume of Maus (Maus: A Survivor's Tale) which retraced his parents' story of survival of the Holocaust. The second volume, Maus: from Mauschwitz to the Catskills followed in 1991 along with a Pulitzer prize the following year.

Spiegelman worked for the New Yorker Magazine but resigned after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Spiegelman's post-September 11 New Yorker cover received wide acclaim. The cover at first appears to be a totally black cover but upon close examination reveals the World Trade Center towers in a slightly darker shade of black.

Spiegelman states that his resignation from the New Yorker was to protest the "widespread conformism" in the United States media. Spiegelman is a sharp critic of the administration of President George W. Bush and claims that the American media has become "conservative and timid". Spiegelman claims that the New Yorker censored his work including a 4th of July cover containing an atomic bomb and a Thanksgiving issue showing U.S. military aircraft dropping turkeys over Afghanistan and titled "Operation Enduring Turkey".

He is currently working on In the Shadow of No Towers, a strip where he relates his experience of the Twin Towers attack and the psychological after-effects.