Until Art Spiegelman arrived on the scene, comics had not truly been acknowledged as art. Never, until Art Spiegelman came along, had anyone won a Guggenheim Fellowship award in order to complete a work of cartoon art. In 1986, Art Spiegelman, hailed by some as the "new Kafka," published Maus: A Survivors Tale, a graphic-novel depiction of his troubled relationship with his father, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Death Camps. Then, in 1991, he published Maus II: …showed first 75 words of 1466 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1466 total…site/entries/spiegelmanxa.html · Art Spiegelman Interview, "Comix as Art: The Man Behind The 'Maus' http://www.inlink.com/~sbolhaf/ispiegel.html · Alt.Culture: Comics, "Comics" http://www.altculture.com/site/entries/comix.html · Maus (Review), "Maus: Graphic Chronicle of a Holocaust Survivor" http://www.inlink.com/~sbolhaf/maus.html · Maus, "Art Spiegelman" http://libertynet.org/~iha/maus/maus3.html · Maus: A Survivors Tale, Art Spiegelman, 1986 · Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began, Art Spiegelman, 1991