Art Spiegelman

Thirty days after Bondi Beach, can Australia’s multicultural project survive? - opinion

The Opera House. The Harbor Bridge. Bondi Beach. Each one an icon, a totem, a postcard. More than just a place, they imbued the very idea of Australia: a land of optimism, freedom, egalitarianism.

|ByDAN GOLDBERG / JTA
People stand near flowers laid as a tribute at Bondi Beach to honour the victims of a mass shooting that targeted a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach on Sunday, in Sydney, Australia, December 16, 2025.
Two books of the graphic novel "Maus" by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman are pictured in this illustration, in Pasadena, California, U.S., January 27, 2022.

'Maus' banning wasn't antisemitic - Art Spiegelman

In January, a Tennessee school board banned Art Spiegelman's Holocaust graphic novel 'Maus'.

|ByARIELLA MARSDEN
Art Spiegelman's graphic novel 'Maus' on sale at a French bookstore in 2017.

You can’t just swap out ‘Maus’ for another Holocaust book - opinion

Maus forces the reader to bear witness in a way no written account can, and the picture-specific portions are especially good at forcing the eye to see what the mind prefers to glide past.

|ByJENNIFER CAPLAN/JTA
Cover of the book 'Maus' by Art Spiegelman

Tennessee school board removes iconic Holocaust book from curriculum

Art Spiegelman, who won a 1992 Pulitzer Prize for 'Maus', told CNBC that the decision was “Orwellian.”

|ByPHILISSA CRAMER/JTA

Essay by Art Spiegelman pulled because it compared Trump to Marvel villain

“Maus” creator said in the essay, which was published in The Guardian, that the book’s co-publisher Marvel Comics was trying to stay “apolitical.”

AUGUST 19, 2019ByMARCY OSTER/JTA
Cover of the book 'Maus' by Art Spiegelman