Art Spiegelman (born
Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev on February 15, 1948) is an 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, where he made several high-profile and sometimes controversial covers. He is married to designer and editor
Françoise Mouly and is the father of writer
Nadja Spiegelman.