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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1997

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 920 SPI

Spiegelman, Art

Summary: A memoir of Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and history. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice, Nazis as cats. Using a unique comic-strip-as-graphic-art format, the story of Vladek Spiegelman's passage through the Nazi Holocaust is told in his own words. Acclaimed as a "quiet triumph"...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1991

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SPI

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 741.59 SPI

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SPI
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SPI

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1986

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 741.59 SPI

Copies Available at Woodmere

3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SPI

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 940.5318 SPI