"Maus"  

Art Spiegelman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist. He is  best known for illustrating and writing Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, a powerful graphic novel that tells the story of his father Vladek’s survival during the Holocaust. Born in 1948 in Stockholm, Sweden to Polish Jewish Holocaust survivors, Spiegelman moved to the United States as a child. As a young adult, he became a leading figure in the underground comics movement, known for pushing the boundaries of the medium.

Maus, published in two parts (1986 and 1991), is a blend of biography, memoir, and historical narrative. It uses animals—mice for Jews, cats for Germans—to explore complex global issues and themes of trauma, memory, identity, and the lasting impact of genocide. The work was the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize.