This ‘American Masters’ presentation profiles the graphic novelist, who took on the intertwined history of his family and the ...

Disaster is My Muse,” airing April 15 on PBS, these memoirist works redefined the form and function of comics, every bit as ...

Vladek Spiegelman and Anja Spiegelman, Art's parents, were in the city of Sosnowiec, in Poland. The Nazis have hung four Jews publicly as punishment for trading on the black market.

Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel “Maus” was about both his father Vladek’s experiences in the Holocaust and the difficult relationship they had with each other. - "Maus" is a twin story.

She also noted that the film is “by the books” and “traditional”, but effective. “Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse” showed Swift the impact of comics, plus how they affect society and politics.

Art Spiegelman, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, is the subject of a new American Masters documentary, Disaster Is My Muse, that will premiere on PBS on April 15.

Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” was featured in the comic book “Funny Aminals” in 1972, with a cover by Robert Crumb, one of Spiegelman’s comic heroes. Being part of “Funny Aminals” helped ...

The subsequent, almost inescapable acclaim for "Maus" would in turn become another source of anguish for Spiegelman. From ...

Cartoonist Art Spiegelman, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, about his parents’ survival of the Holocaust, has had an immense impact on the world of comics throughout ...

The depictions of inherited trauma, like the Jewish mice of his graphic memoir Maus, are elegantly simple metaphors, and the ...

The creator of Maus has learned that the past is always present. At many points in his life Art Spiegelman has tried to ...