Spielgelman, Art, Maus: A Survivor's Tale, My Father Bleeds History and And Here My Troubles Began (1978-1991)

Abstract

Let me begin with a short biography of the author. Art Spiegelman was born on February 15th, 1948, in Stockholm. He is the son of Vladek and Anja who are Polish Jews who survived to the Holocaust and the deportation in Auschwitz. His parents' life left its mark on his own life and his work. He is a cartoonist and his main work is Maus, a comic book which tells his father's life during World War II. The publication of Maus was progressive. In 1972, a three-pages strip called Maus was published in Funny Animals. In 1977, first Spiegelman's strips were gathered in a collection untitled BREAKDOWNS, From Maus to Now.