MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus

(W) Art Spiegelman. Art Spiegelman's Maus is an undisputed modern classic. Part history* part memoir* all comic* it recounts his father's chilling experiences during the Holocaust* with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats. In 1992* it became the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize. In MetaMaus* Spiegelman welcomes readers into his world and the thirteen years-long artistic process behind his seminal book. In extensive interviews with the author and his family including Spiegelman's original conversation with his father* which served as the foundational narrative of Maus MetaMaus grapples with the original work's most foundational questions: Why write about the Holocaust? Why choose comics as a medium? Why mice? Richly interspersed with excerpts from Spiegelman's own sketchbooks* as well as drawings by Holocaust survivors and archival photographs* MetaMaus is a vivid glimpse into the creative life of an artist* the vital work of a historian* and the birth of a magnum opus.