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NEW YORK (AP) — This fall, Art Spiegelman will receive an honorary National Book Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He feels honored, and a little worried. The unexpected pleasure of being cited by the National Book Foundation comes months after the jarring saga of his Pulitzer Prize-winning “Maus” being withdrawn by a Tennessee school board, which found Spiegelman’s graphic novel about the Holocaust inappropriate for the district's curriculum.

Art Spiegelman will receive an honorary National Book Award after his holocaust graphic novel "Maus" became a target of book banning.

Foundation says cartoonist 'captured world’s imagination' with graphic novels. His 'groundbreaking work has shown us the limitless possibilities for comics as a literary art form'

Spiegelman is the first cartoonist to win the DCAL medal from the National Book Foundation, which previously has awarded Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Robert Caro among others.

NEW YORK (AP) -- This fall, Art Spiegelman will receive an honorary National Book Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He feels

Dick Briefer put his Frankenstein monster through its paces in the Prize Comics run, including the Prize superheroes vs the monster.

The comic book origin story of Jennifer Walters, the She-Hulk, now starring in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law on Disney Plus. From Stan Lee and The Incredible Hulk to fourth-wall-breaking satire to legal procedural.

It’s easy to assume that the biblical brothers Cain and Abel in Netflix’s Sandman are from Genesis — but you’d be dead wrong. They’re actually inspired by Tales From the Crypt.

Haunted Thrills was one of the most succesful of Farrell Publications Pre-Code Horror series, featuring artwork from Iger Studio.

Crime Does Not Pay #33 is one of the most-collected issues of the most notorious series in comic book history.