The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
- the Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust survivor story& The most affecting & successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust& Wall Street Journal& The first masterpiece in comic book history& The New Yorker The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman a Jewish survivor of Hitler&s Europe & his son a cartoonist coming to terms with his father&s story Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive Its form the cartoon (the Nazis are cats the Jews mice) shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity & succeeds in &drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust& (The New York Times) Maus is a haunting tale within a tale Vladek&s harrowing story of survival is woven into the author&s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival they stage a normal life of small arguments & unhappy visits This astonishing retelling of our century&s grisliest news is a story of survival not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history & tracks its meaning for all of us This combined definitive edition
Includes:: Maus I A Survivor&s Tale & Maus IIArt Spiegelman is a contributing editor & artist for the New Yorker His drawings & prints have been exhibited in museums & galleries around the world He won the Pulitzer Prize for Maus & a Guggenheim fellowship It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Award His other books include Breakdowns From Maus to Now an Anthology of Strips; The Wild Party; Open Me I&m A Dog; Jack Cole & Plastic Man Forms Stretched to Their Limits; In the Shadow of No Towers; Breakdowns Portrait of the Artist as a Young &!; Be a Nose; Jack & the Box & Meta Maus He lives in New York