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I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.

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Art Spiegelman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: February 15
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
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Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman
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