Swedish-American cartoonist and critic

Art Spiegelman

Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman, professionally known as Art Spiegelman, is a Polish-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. He is married to designer and editor Françoise Mouly and is the father of writer Nadja Spiegelman. In September 2022, the National Book Foundation announced that he would receive the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

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1948

February 15

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1948 Born

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438 Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus.
590 Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
706 Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberios III publicly executed in the Hippodrome of Constantinople.
1002 At an assembly at Pavia of Lombard nobles, Arduin of Ivrea is restored to his domains and crowned King of Italy.

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The world in 1948

When Art arrived

april 1 Cold War: Communist forces respond to the introduction of the Deutsche Mark by attempting to force the western powers to withdraw from Berlin.
april 1 Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.
april 13 In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre.
april 16 The Organization of European Economic Co-operation is formed.

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Galileo Galilei 1564–1642 Italian astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (died 1642) Birdman 1969– American rapper and producer Darrell Green 1960– American football player Elihu Root 1845–1937 American lawyer and politician, 38th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1937) Ernest Shackleton 1874–1922 Anglo-Irish captain and explorer (died 1922) Miep Gies 1909–2010 Austrian-Dutch humanitarian, helped hide Anne Frank and her family (died 2010) Milo Đukanović 1962– Montenegrin politician, 29th Prime Minister of Montenegro Steven Michael Quezada 1963– American actor, comedian, and politician Totò 1898–1967 Italian comedian (born 1898)

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Buck Martinez 1948– American baseball player and manager Carl Weathers 1948–2024 American football player and actor (born 1948) Carlos Salinas de Gortari 1948– Mexican economist and politician, 53rd President of Mexico Christopher Guest 1948– British-American actor and director Claude Jade 1948–2006 French actress (born 1948) Cliff Thorburn 1948– Canadian snooker player Davíð Oddsson 1948– Icelandic politician, 21st Prime Minister of Iceland (died 2026) Dayle Haddon 1948– Canadian model and actress (died 2024) East Bay Ray 1948– American guitarist

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