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ENGL 101 - Kavaloski

Who is Art Spiegelman?

Art Spiegelman was born on February 15, 1948 in Stockholm, Sweden but grew up in New York City. He pursued a career as an artist and attended SUNY Binghamton but left before completing his degree. After leaving college, he contributed heavily to underground comics, or comix. It was at this time that he published an early iteration of Maus that appeared in another cartoonist's anthology.

As his career progressed, Spiegelman cofounded Raw in 1980 with his wife, and together they published comics in an attempt to engage a wider audience. He continued to develop the Maus story in Raw. The Maus book was first published in 1986.

Source: "Art Spiegelman." Britannica, www.britannica.com/biography/Art-Spiegelman. Accessed 28 Oct. 2024.

Finding biographical information

To find out more information about who Art Spiegelman is, you can use the library databases to find both physical and digital resources. Why use the library databases instead of Google? Information found through the library databases is more reliable overall compared to what you might find through Google.

 

Using ROOsearch

Using the Advanced Search page of ROOsearch, we can better communicate to the database how we want to search. The search bars on this page can correspond to searching specific fields in any result. We are searching for information about Spiegelman, meaning that he is the subject of our search. Select "Subject" from the "Any Field" drop down menu. Because we are searching for a person, we need to write his last name first, like this: "Spiegelman, Art". See the example below.

Using Specific Databases

There are particular databases we can use to search, however, that will bring us right to biographical information about Spiegelman.