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Best known for his award-winning Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, Art Spiegelman is profiled in this inspirational biography. Spanning his early involvement in the commix underground to his latest work in The New Yorker and beyond, it explores Spiegelman’s influences and themes, many of them dealing with his own family’s history. The author traces the origins of the comic book and its growing importance in American popular culture, and lists a thorough selection of resources, author’s prizes and awards, complete works, glossary, organizations, and Web sites.