Art Spiegelman has almost single-handedly brought comic books out of the toy closet and onto the literature shelves. In 1992, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his masterful Holocaust narrative Maus— which portrayed Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. Maus II continued the remarkable story of his parents’ survival of the Nazi regime and their lives later in America. As creative consultant for Topps Bubble Gum Co. from 1965-1987, Spiegelman created Wacky Packages and Garbage Pail Kids. In 1980, Spiegelman founded RAW, the acclaimed avant-garde comics magazine, with his wife, Françoise Mouly—Maus was originally serialized in the pages of RAW. Join us for a discussion of Art’s latest work, “Foolish Questions” a New York Review of Books article on screwball comic strips, and his storied career in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.