Audio Interview with Art Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman, author and illustrator of Maus, tells Don Swaim in this 1991 interview about the launching of his career in writing for underground comics. Spiegelman got his start by writing for underground comics that had mature subject matter for adults in a magazine he founded called Raw.

After some success, Spiegelman decided to write Maus, a satire on the Nazi occupation depicting Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. The book was based on the experiences of his parents as concentration-camp survivors. Maus's success eventually earned Art Spiegelman the Pulitzer Prize.

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For many years most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. Wired for Books is proud to webcast these interviews in their entirety.