A major exhibition of his work was arranged by Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, as part of the “15 Masters of 20th Century Comics” exhibit (November 2005). McSweeney’s has published a collection of three of his sketchbooks entitled Be a Nose. In 2009, Maus was chosen by the Young Adult Library Association as one of its recommended titles for all students (the list is revised every 5 years and used by educators and librarians across the country). It includes an autobiographical comix-format introduction almost as long as the book itself, entitled Portrait of the Artist as a Young as well as a children’s book (published with Toon Books), called Jack and the Box. Spiegelman’s work also includes a new edition of his 1978 anthology, Breakdowns. A book version of these highly political works was published by Pantheon in the United States, appeared on many national bestseller lists, and was selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2004. In 2004 he completed a two-year cycle of broadsheet-sized color comics pages, In the Shadow of No Towers, first published in a number of European newspapers and magazines including Die Zeit and The London Review of Books. His work has been published in many periodicals, including The New Yorker, where he was a staff artist and writer from 1993-2003. They have co-edited A Toon Treasury of Classic Children’s Comics (Fall 2009). Currently, he and his wife publish a series of early readers called Toon Books - picture books in comics format. He and Mouly more recently co-edited Little Lit, a series of three comics anthologies for children published by HarperCollins ( Comics - They’re Not Just for Grown-Ups Anymore) and Big Fat Little Lit, collecting the three comics into one volume. Pantheon has published many of his subsequent works including an illustrated version of the 1928 lost classic, The Wild Party, by Joseph Moncure March. Maus was originally serialized in the pages of RAW, before being published by Pantheon. In 1980, Spiegelman founded RAW, the acclaimed avant-garde comics magazine, with his wife, Françoise Mouly. In 2007 he was a Heyman Fellow of the Humanities at Columbia University where he taught a Masters of the Comics seminar. from 1965-1987, Spiegelman created Wacky Packages, Garbage Pail Kids and other novelty items, and taught history and aesthetics of comics at the School for Visual Arts in New York from 1979-1986. As creative consultant for Topps Bubble Gum Co. He went on to study art and philosophy at Harpur College before becoming part of the underground comix subculture of the 60s and 70s.
Having rejected his parents’ aspirations for him to become a dentist, Art Spiegelman studied cartooning in high school and began drawing professionally at age 16.
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