Art Spiegelman (b. 1948) is an American cartoonist and editor, best known for his graphic novel Maus (1991), which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992. Born in Stockholm, Sweden, Spiegelman immigrated to America with his family as a small child and spent most of his life in New York. He attended Harpur College from 1965 to 1968 but left before graduation to pursue a career in cartoon illustration. In 1977, he published a collection of comic strips entitled Breakdowns, and in 1980, with the help of his wife, artist and designer Françoise Mouly, Spiegelman launched Raw, a magazine that focused on publishing avant-garde cartoonists. From 1977 to 1990, he created his most famous work, Maus, a graphic novel that chronicled the rise of Nazism during World War II, and in 1992, he became a contributing artist for the New Yorker, where he remained until 2001, when he left to work on In the Shadow of No Towers, a collection of illustrations documenting his reaction to 9/11.

9/11/2001

The following illustration was the cover for the September 24th issue of the New Yorker magazine, the first issue to appear after September 11, 2001. It was voted one of the top ten magazine covers of the past forty years by the American Society of Magazine Editors.