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Art Spiegelman was born in Stockholm in 1948. In his early childhood he emigrated with his parents, both survivors of the Shoah, to the United States of America. Art Spiegelman works, in addition to his work as a comic illustrator, as an illustrator for various magazines, publishes the avant-garde comic magazine "Raw" together with his wife Francoise Mouly, teaches at the New York School of Visual Arts and works as an artistic consultant for several companies. Spiegelman lives in New York with his wife and two children.

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The story of Maus changed the history of the comic strip overnight - cult became art. It tells the authentic life story of the Polish Jew Wladek Spiegelman. In Queens, New York, he describes the stages of his life to his son: Poland and Auschwitz, Stockholm and New York, he tells of the rescue and the curse of survival. Art Spiegelman has recorded this story by putting the unspeakable animal in the mouth: The Jews are mice, the Germans are cats.