Spiegelman, Art.

Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and 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 and succeeds in "drawing us closer to the bleak heart...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1997

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Spiegelman, Art.

Summary: A biography of the author's father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor told in a graphic narrative in which Jews are depicted as mice, while Germans are depicted as cats. Maus is the only comic book ever to have won a Pulitzer Prize.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1986

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 741.59 SPI

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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 940.5318 SPI

Ware, Chris

Summary: "A flabbergasting experiment in publishing hubris, Monograph charts the art and literary world's increasing tolerance for the language of the empathetic doodle directly through the work of one of its most esthetically constipated practitioners. For thirty years, writer and artist (i.e. cartoonist) Chris Ware (b. 1967) has been testing the patience of readers and fine art fans with his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WAR