Art Spiegelman is presenting at the Pulp Culture Comics Arts Festival & Symposium. He almost single-handedly brought comic books out of the toy closet and onto the literature shelves. In 1992, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his masterful Holocaust narrative Maus—which portrayed Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. Maus II continued the remarkable story of his parents’ survival of the Nazi regime and their lives later in America. His comics are best known for their shifting graphic styles, their formal complexity, and controversial content.
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Tags: Art Spiegelman, Cartoon Studies, Francoise Mouly, Maus, Pulitzer, Pulp Culture Comics Arts Festival and Symposium, RAW, The Wild Party, Topps, Visiting Artist
