BRUNSWICK – Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrator Art Spiegelman – whose comics are best known for their shifting graphic styles, formal complexity and controversial content – will deliver Bowdoin College’s 2006 Harry Spindel Memorial Lecture Wednesday, April 5.

Spiegelman will give an illustrated performance on his Holocaust narratives “Maus” and “Maus II.” In 1992, he won the Pulitzer Prize for “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.

Open to the public, the lecture will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Pickard Theater. It is free, but tickets are required. Tickets will be available at the David Saul Smith Union information desk on campus beginning today.

His work has been published in many periodicals, including The New

Yorker, where he was a staff artist and writer from 1993 to 2003. A

collection of his New Yorker work is soon to be published by Pantheon,

who also published his illustrated version of the 1928 lost classic,

“The Wild Party,” by Joseph Moncure March.