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BIOGRAPHY Born in Stockholm of Polish-Jewish refugee parents, Spiegelman grew up in Rego Park in Queens , New York City and attended High School Of Art And Design in Manhattan . Spiegelman attended Harpur College ( State University Of New York At Binghamton . He did not graduate, but received an honorary doctorate from SUNY Binghamton 30 years later. In the late winter of 1968 , he suffered a brief but intense nervous breakdown, an event often referred to in his work.1 After his release from a mental hospital, his mother, Anja, committed suicide. And see MAUS I: Prisoner on the Hell Planet, P. 100. . Spiegelman was a major figure in the Underground Comics movement of the 1960s and 1970s , contributing to publications such as ''Real Pulp'', ''Young Lust'' and ''Bizarre Sex''. He co-founded two significant comics anthology publications, Arcade (along with Bill Griffith ) in the early 70's in San Francisco, and RAW with his wife, artist (and, later, Art Editor of the ''New Yorker'') Françoise Mouly , in 1980. Together with many other innovative works, RAW serialized Spiegelman's memoir, MAUS, which retraces his parents' story as they survived the . Maus attracted an unprecedented amount of critical attention for a work in the form of comics, including an exhibition at the Museum Of Modern Art in New York and a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992. Spiegelman has also worked in more commercial forums: After a summer internship (when he was 18) at Topps Bubble Gum, he was hired as a consultant and remained as such for 20 years. For Topps, Spiegelman invented "Garbage Candy" (candy in the form of garbage, sold in miniature plastic garbage cans) and the Wacky Packages card series, and co-created (with Mark Newgarden ), ' Garbage Pail Kids " stickers and cards. Hired by towers in a slightly darker shade of black. Spiegelman states that his resignation from the ''New Yorker'' was to protest the "widespread conformism" in the United States media. Spiegelman is a sharp critic of the administration of President George W. Bush and claims that the American media has become "conservative and timid".
In 2005, '' Time Magazine '' named Spiegelman one of their Top 100 Most Influential People . Spiegelman is a prominent advocate for the medium of comics. He tours the country giving a lecture he calls "Comix 101". He and Françoise Mouly also have published 3 hardcover anthologies of comics for children, called '' Little Lit ''. He lives in downtown Manhattan with his wife, Francoise Mouly, and their two children, Nadja and Dashiell. NOTES AND REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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