Art Spiegelman

Known for: Maus (1991); co-founder of Raw magazine

Art Spiegelman spent 13 years producing Maus (1991), a graphic memoir of his father's survival of the Holocaust in which Jews are depicted as mice and Nazis as cats, drawing on his father's oral testimony. Maus became the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize, receiving a special award in 1992. He co-founded the comics anthology Raw in 1980, which published early work by Charles Burns, Gary Panter, and other artists who defined alternative comics.