 Art Spiegelman ( born Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev on February 15 , 1948 ) is an American cartoonist , editor , and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus . His work as co @-@ editor on the comics magazines Arcade and Raw has been influential , and from 1992 he spent a decade as contributing artist for The New Yorker , where he made several high @-@ profile and sometimes controversial covers . He is married to designer and editor Françoise Mouly and is the father of writer Nadja Spiegelman . 
