Art Spiegelman is a contributing editor and artist for the New Yorker. His drawings and prints have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Maus, and a Guggenheim fellowship. It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Award. He lives in New York.
The first masterpiece in comic book history * New Yorker *
One of the cliches about the Holocaust is that you can't imagine it
- Spiegelman disproves this theory * Independent *
A brutally moving work of art * Boston Globe *
In the tradition of Aesop and Orwell, it serves to shock and impart
powerful resonance to a well-documented subject. The artwork is so
accomplished, forceful and moving * TimeOut *
Spiegelman has turned the exuberant fantasy of comics inside out by
giving us the most incredible fantasy in comics' history: something
that actually occurred. Maus is terrifying not for its brutality,
but for its tenderness and guilt * New Yorker *
An epic story told in tiny pictures * New York Times *
The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the
Holocaust * Wall Street Journal *
Maus is a book that cannot be put down, truly, even to
sleep...when you finish Maus, you are unhappy to have left
that magical world and long for the sequel that will return you to
it -- Umberto Eco
A remarkable feat of documentary detail and novelistic
vividness...an unfolding literary event * New York Times Book
Review *
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek
Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a
cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. Maus approaches
the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the
Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering
sense of familiarity and succeeds in 'drawing us closer to the
bleak heart of the Holocaust' * New York Times *
A quiet triumph, moving and simple - impossible to describe
accurately, and impossible to achieve in any medium but comics *
Washington Post *
All too infrequently, a book comes along that' s as daring as it is
acclaimed. Art Spiegelman's Maus is just such a book *
Esquire *
A remarkable work, awesome in its conception and execution... at
one and the same time a novel, a documentary, a memoir, and a comic
book. Brilliant, just brilliant -- Jules Feiffer
Maus is a masterpiece, and it's in the nature of such things
to generate mysteries, and pose more questions than they answer.
But if the notion of a canon means anything, Maus is there
at the heart of it. Like all great stories, it tells us more about
ourselves than we could ever suspect -- Philip Pullman
Spiegelman's Maus changed comics forever. Comics now can be
about anything -- Alison Bechdel
Reading [his work] has been an amazing lesson in storytelling *
Etgar Keret *
It can be easy to forget how much of a game-changer Maus
was. * Washington Post *
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