Art Spiegelman

Biography

Art Spiegelman is the author of numerous comics and graphic novels, including the seminal Maus, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. His newest work, portions of which appeared in VQR, is Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!, forthcoming from Pantheon this October. His cover for this issue is his fourth for VQR since 2004.

See Work

MEMOIR / Winter 2007

Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*! (Installment #4)

By Art Spiegelman
ART / Fall 2006

Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*! (Installment #3)

By Art Spiegelman
ART / Winter 2006

Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*! (Installment #2)

By Art Spiegelman
ART / Fall 2005

Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*! (Installment #1)

By Art Spiegelman

This was also the very first piece toward the graphic novel that fourteen years later would become the Pulitzer Prize–winning Maus. In the time intervening, Spiegelman, more than any other single artist or writer, would transform the world...

MEMOIR / Fall 2004

The Sky Is Falling, the Sky Is Falling!

By Art Spiegelman

Everyone around the world with access to a television set saw the cataclysmic destruction of the World Trade Center towers, saw it in constant replay, burning—and burning itself into our collective retina. I saw it that way too, but first...