Art Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman (b. 1948) is an American cartoonist, graphic novelist and editor, known as an advocate for the comics as a form of art. He was a prominent artist on the underground comix scene in 1970s, worked as an editor of influential magazines Arcade and Raw and a contributing artist for The New Yorker, where he made several high-profile and controversial covers in 1992–2001. Spiegelman's most famous work is a book-length Maus, published in 1991. The graphic novel won a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992.