Art Spiegelman (born February 15, 1948)

Born Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev, Art Spiegelman is an American author and illustrator whose Holocaust narritives, Maus I: A Survivors Tale, My Father Bleeds History (1986) and Maus II: A Survivors Tale--And Here My Trouble Began (1991), helped establish comic storytelling as a sophisticated adult litrary medium. Maus was based on his relationship with his father, a holocaust survivor. This postmodern book depicts Nazis as cats, Jews as mice, and ethnic Poles as pigs. It won a special Pulitzer Prize and was a New York Times bestseller.