Lead Pipe Sunday #2
1997 · Color lithograph on cream wove paper, folded in half and printed on three sides
Closed: 27.5 × 78 cm (10 7/8 × 30 3/4 in.); Open: 55 × 78 cm (21 11/16 × 30 3/4 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Art Spiegelman
1948
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Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman, professionally known as Art Spiegelman, is a Polish-American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus. His work as co-editor on the comics magazines Arcade and Raw has been influential, and from 1992 he spent a decade as contributing artist for The New Yorker. He is married to designer and editor Françoise Mouly and is the father of writer Nadja Spiegelman. In September 2022, the National Book Foundation announced that he would receive the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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