TimesTalks - Art Spiegelman: The Graphic Novel's Unlikely Hero

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Art Spiegelman is perhaps best known for his Holocaust narratives Maus, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, and Maus II. Born in Stockholm in 1948, Mr. Spiegelman began to study cartooning in high school and began drawing professionally at age 16. As creative consultant for Topps Candy from 1965 to 1987, Mr. Spiegelman designed Wacky Packages, Garbage Pail Kids, and other novelty items, and from 1979 to 1986 he taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York. In 1980, Mr. Spiegelman founded RAW, the acclaimed avant-garde comics magazine, with his wife, Francoise Mouly. His work has since been published in many periodicals, including The New Yorker, where he was a staff artist and writer from 1993 to 2003. Mr. Spiegelman currently edits Little Lit, a series of comics anthologies for children, and has recently completed an anthology of his New Yorker work, Kisses From New York. His most recent book, a collection of comics inspired by the events of September 11th, In the Shadow of No Towers, was published by Pantheon Books in September 2004. He is also working on the libretto and the sets for a new opera about the history of comics, entitled Drawn to Death: A Three Panel Opera, with composer Phillip Johnston. In addition to the Pulitzer, Mr. Spiegelman has been honored with a Guggenheim fellowship and nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Charles McGrath is the former editor of The New York Times Book Review. Before that he was deputy editor of The New Yorker, where he worked for 23 years. He is currently a writer at large for The Times and writes for, among other sections, sports, Arts & Leisure, the Week in Review, and The New York Times Magazine. His cover story on graphic novels appeared in the magazine last July.

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