Maus: A Survivor's Tale - Art Spiegelman Reviews

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 ...

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 ...

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What would be your reaction if I told you someone had produced a comic book about the Holocaust? One that actually employed cute-looking animals as metaphors for the protagonists? Probably the same as mine was - shock and disbelief. I mean, how could such a medium adequately portray one of the most horrific events in history without appearing ...