maus

"Richly illustrated with images from Art Spiegelman's work, Maus Now gathers together many of contemporary culture's leading critics, authors, and academics on the radical achievement and innovation of Maus more than forty years since its first publication. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Art Spiegelman is one of our most influential contemporary artists, and it is hard to overstate his effect on postwar American culture. Maus has shaped the fields of literature, history, and art, and enlivened our collective sense of what these practices can accomplish. Maus Now: Selected Writings collects responses to the work that confirm its unique and terrain-shifting status. Here, writers such as Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, Ruth Franklin, and others approach Maus from a wide range of viewpoints and traditions, inspired by the material's complexity. The book is organized into three very loosely chronological sections: "Contexts," "Problems of Representation," and "Legacy," and offers translations of important French, Hebrew, and German essays on Maus for the first time. Maus is revelatory, and generative, in profound and long-lasting ways. With this collection, American literary scholar (and expert on comics and graphic narratives) Hillary Chute assembles the best work around the globe exploring this classic graphic biography"--.

Contains eight essays in which the authors analyze various aspects of Art Spiegelman's two-volume comic book "Maus: A Survivor's Tale" which chronicles his father's experiences in the Holocaust and later immigration to New York.

The author delves into the pages of his classic graphic novel "Maus," discussing the creative process that went into it and answering the questions most frequently asked about the book. Includes a DVD that provides a digital copy of "The Complete Maus," hyperlinked to an archive of audio interviews with his father, videos, historical documents, and his own notebooks and sketches.