Baym, Nina; Klinkowitz, Jerome; Krupat, Arnold; Wallace, Patricia B., eds. (2007). The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Vol.E. W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0393927436. Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Language in your kid's entertainment guide. Get started Close

Kannenberg, Gene Jr. (2001). " 'I Looked Just Like Rudolph Valentino': Identity and Representation in Maus". In Baetens, Jan (ed.). The Graphic Novel. Leuven University Press. pp.79–89. ISBN 978-90-5867-109-7. Shoah. Some scholars and religious leaders have taken issue with the term “holocaust.” Though the word has been used for decades to refer to the genocide of European Jews, and has been used to describe other mass killings in history, it originates from a Greek word that means “a completely burnt offering to God.” Some argue that to refer to the genocide as a “holocaust” is to compare those murders to religious sacrifices — and that this comparison dignifies the violence and disrespects the victims. Many who disagree with the use of the term “holocaust” substitute “shoah,” a Hebrew term that translates as “catastrophe.” Adams, Jeff (2008). Documentary Graphic Novels and Social Realism. Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-03911-362-0. Art Spiegelman was born on February 15, 1948, in Sweden to Polish Jews and Holocaust survivors Vladek and Anja Spiegelman. An aunt poisoned his parents' first son Richieu to avoid capture by the Nazis, four years before Spiegelman's birth. [41] He and his parents emigrated to the United States in 1951. [42] During his youth his mother occasionally talked about Auschwitz, but his father did not want him to know about it. [27] Hirsch, Marianne (1997). Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-29265-9.Tan, Ed (2001). "The Telling Face in Comic Strip and Graphic Novel". In Baetens, Jan (ed.). The Graphic Novel. Leuven University Press. pp.31–46. ISBN 978-90-5867-109-7.

Morman, Todd (January 29, 2003). "High Art, Hit Movies and Manifestos". IndyWeek.com . Retrieved June 7, 2012. This was a story about survival and deep love. The love shown between Vladek and Anja mesmerized me and broke my heart seeing them go through so much cruelty and suffering. This story is not a pleasant one but it is incredible. It's not easy to read at times but it's essential. It's about so many things. If you read this and it doesn't affect you, you are heartless. Spiegelman developed an interest in comics early and began drawing professionally at 16. [43] He spent a month in Binghamton State Mental Hospital in 1968 after a nervous breakdown. Shortly after he got out, his mother died by suicide. [2] Spiegelman's father was not happy with his son's involvement in the hippie subculture. Spiegelman said that when he bought himself a German Volkswagen it damaged their already-strained relationship "beyond repair". [44] Around this time, Spiegelman read in fanzines about such graphic artists as Frans Masereel who had made wordless novels. The discussions in those fanzines about making the Great American Novel in comics inspired him. [45] From the original, more detailed 1972 "Maus" stripPulitzer Prize staff (2012). "Special Awards and Citations". Pulitzer Prizes . Retrieved January 31, 2012. Frahm, Ole (May 2004). "Considering MAUS. Approaches to Art Spiegelman's "Survivor's Tale" of the Holocaust by Deborah R. Geis (ed.)". Image & Narrative (8). ISSN 1780-678X . Retrieved January 30, 2012. Kannenberg, Eugene P. (2002). Form, Function, Fiction: Text and Image in the Comics Narratives of Winsor McCay, Art Spiegelman, and Chris Ware. University of Connecticut. ISBN 978-0-493-69522-8. ProQuest 304791620. Petersen, Robert (2010). Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels: A History of Graphic Narratives. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-36330-6. Whether you’ve read it or not, I’m sure you’ve heard of Art Spiegelman's Maus. First and foremost, in 1992, Maus became the first graphic novel to ever win a Pulitzer Prize (the Special Award in Letters). Decades later, in 2022, Maus is still in the news, because a school in Tennessee removed the book from its curriculum, deeming it “inappropriate” on account of language and nudity. When a book is controversial/banned, I tend to want to read it more. I hope there are more like me out there (including those kids who are being deprived of the opportunity to learn about it in school! It's the true story of a Jewish man who survived the Holocaust in wartime Europe. This is history. It happened!)

This is the “Complete” edition of “Maus: A Survivor’s Tale” collecting both parts: “My Father Bleeds History” and “And Here My Troubles Began”. Por el contrario, en el comic se remarca mucho más el papel que tuvo la suerte en esa salvación, la infinidad de hechos afortunados que se tuvieron que producir en cada caso para salir con vida de aquel horror, junto a las habilidades, la malicia, la fortaleza, el instinto y la inteligencia necesaria para aprovecharlos. Y así, la frase de Levi se transforma radicalmente en Spiegelman: “no sobrevivieron los mejores, ni murieron los mejores. ¡Fue el azar!”. Una frase que es un intento por respetar la memoria de las víctimas, de las que sobrevivieron, de las que no se suicidaron después de la guerra, como hizo la propia madre de Spiegelman, pero también una forma de ayudar a sus descendientes (la frase aparece en el comic en la boca del terapeuta de Spiegelman). En cualquier caso, el autor, como también hiciera Kertész en su novela, no evita responsabilizar a los judíos por todo aquello que hicieron y que no hicieron por evitar su exterminio, por el precio que tenía todo acto de ayuda prestada, y no solo por parte de alemanes o polacos, sino también por parte de los propios judíos, y como aquellos que tenían con qué pagar y/o menos escrúpulos tuvieron más posibilidades de salvarse. Wegner, Rachel (January 27, 2022). "Tennessee school board's removal of Holocaust book 'Maus' draws international attention". The Tennessean . Retrieved January 28, 2022. Ahrens, Jörn; Meteling, Arno (2010). Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture, and Sequence. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8264-4019-8.Harvey, R. C. (1996). The Art of the Comic Book: An Aesthetic History. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-0-87805-758-0. Weschler, Lawrence (July–August 2001). "Pig Perplex". Lingua Franca. 11 (5) . Retrieved May 15, 2012. On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first publication, here is the definitive edition of the book acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” ( Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” ( The New Yorker).

When Published: The first volume of Maus (“My Father Bleeds History”) was serialized in Raw magazine, beginning in 1980 and ending in 1991, when the magazine ceased publication. The first volume was published in book form in 1986. The second volume (“And Here My Troubles Began”) was published in 1991. Like all great stories, it tells us more about ourselves than we could ever suspect' Philip PullmanEntertainment Weekly staff (June 27, 2008). "The New Classics: Books". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on January 27, 2012 . Retrieved January 27, 2012. Kaplan, Arie (2006). Masters of the Comic Book Universe Revealed!. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-55652-633-6. Kannenberg, Gene Jr. (February 1999). Groth, Gary (ed.). "#4: Maus". The Comics Journal. Fantagraphics Books (210). ISSN 0194-7869. Russell, Vanessa (2008). "The Mild-Mannered Reporter: How Clark Kent Surpassed Superman". In Ndalianis, Angela (ed.). The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero. Taylor & Francis. pp.216–232. ISBN 978-0-415-99176-6.