Art Spiegelman, graphic novel, counterculture, the Holocaust, intergenerational transmission of trauma, 9/11 terrorist attack

The article summarizes Art Spiegelman's professional career and his artistic work. After introduction of his early involvement in countercultural avant-garde periodicals, it focuses on his two-volume graphic novel Maus, explaining the reasons for the artist's decision to employ anthropomorphic animals in his depiction of the Holocaust and post-Holocaust America. Finally, it records Spiegelman's comic book In the Shadow of No Towers, viewed as his response to the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.