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Comic creator: Art Spiegelman  States with his parents in his early childhood. Spiegelman studied cartooning in high school and started drawing professionally at age sixteen. Despite his parents wanting him to become a dentist, Art Spiegelman majored in art and philosophy at Harpur College....
http://www.lambiek.net/spiegelman.htm

Spiegelman's introductory essay to his collection of early 20th century pornographic cartoons, Tijuana Bibles.
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Salon Art Spiegelman Tijuana Bibles  Cartoons have a way of crawling past our critical radar and getting right into the id. It may be that their reductive diagramatic qualities echo the way the brain sorts information. This subversive knack for lodging memorably in the deepest...
http://www.salon.com/aug97/spieg970819.html

Critical profile by Ted Rall, calling the artist's work overrated and suggesting that his influence has made New York publishers unfriendly to younger artists.
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/9930/rall.php

Essay on the artist's difficulty in explaining racism to his children, and a reminiscence of his time in a mental hospital.
http://bsd.mojones.com/mother_jones/SO97/spiegelman.html

Biography, links and art excerpts.
http://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/spiegelman.htm