Art Spiegelman is best known for his masterful two-volume Holocaust narrative, Maus, which in 1992 won a Pulitzer Prize. In 2005, he was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People. He was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France in 2005 and—the American equivalent—played himself on an episode of The Simpsons in 2008. In 2011, Art Spiegelman won the Grand Prix at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. He lives in New York City with his wife and collaborator, Françoise Mouly, TOON Books' editorial director.
