Art Spiegelman, 74, is a prolific cartoonist, artist, and editor best known for his graphic novel Maus. The work depicts, in part, the artist interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. Critics have classified the book as memoir, biography, history, fiction, autobiography, or a mix of genres. In 1992, Maus became the first and so far only graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize (the Special Award in Letters).
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Quote: “I think as soon as I figured out – and this must have been incredibly young – that comic books were made by humans, rather than being natural phenomenon likes trees or rocks, I just wanted to be one of the people who did that. So I was copying all kinds of cartoons that I was reading, comic books, and eventually learned how to draw cartoon books step-by-step and just, I don’t know, I’m not an especially quick learner, but I sure was a dedicated one.”
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