Maus: A Survivor's Tale - Art Spiegelman

A comic on the holocaust? The Jews depicted as mice and the most infamous concentration camp as Mauschwitz? I had read positive reviews on the book and had to find out how that worked, if it worked at all for me. Art Spiegelman hasn’t invented the genre but he’s certainly expanded it, he’s created a unique graphic book by the subject he’s chosen. The author (from the cover) ‘a contributing editor and artist for the New Yorker, cofounder/editor of Raw, the acclaimed magazine of avant-garde comics and graphics’ has made first and foremost a classical comic, i.e., ‘a story about anthropomorphically depicted animals, told sequentially in a series of square panels ...

Conor got it down from the shelf. I hadn't read it in years. And I wasn't sure whether to be glad or not. Maus is a powerful book. It tells one of the saddest stories in a history of sad stories man has created. Maus is the story of the Holocaust. It's told in comic strip format and that, of course, is what had attracted Conor. I said it was a very sad book and was he sure he'd like to read it and he said he was sure. So together we read. Maus is written by Art Spiegelman, an American cartoonist. It tells the story of his father's experiences under the Nazi regime, how he and his family avoided the concentration camps for a ...

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