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Maus: A Survival's Tale, by Art Spiegelman

 

A young struggling cartoonist, Artie, is trying to find a source of context for his next big comic. He then receives amazing inspiration from non-other than his own father, Vladek. Art then decides he's going to illustrate his father's experience during the holocaust. Week by week, Art collects information from his father about his experience before the holocaust and during. Although Vladek mainly talks about his personal life and how he escaped the Nazis, it also shares a thrilling tale of the way Vladek and his first wife, Anja grew closer and closer over that period of time.

 I personally loved Maus: A Survival's Tale, by Art Spiegelman. As someone who enjoys learning about wars and the thought process behind the people fighting in this war is something so magical. Hearing the story of someone that had a life before the holocaust and experienced it, is truly inspirational. I enjoy how Artie depicts visions through panels such as viewing Vladek's past through a glass orb. I didn't enjoy the sudden end of the story. The sudden cut in the story made me extremely upset because I craved more from this book. I craved more stories about Vladek's love story and life. I craved to hear Artie's comments on his father and their relationship.

Reviewed by A.M., Grade 8

Glendale Central Library

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Melissa said…
Long story short, this book is a very famous book. It is about the holocaust and how people were living in such harsh conditions. It is a very creative book, a graphic novel in comic form which expresses such heavy emotions and feeling for the readers. I the book, Jews are portrayed as mice and the Nazis were portrayed as cats. It Is about a family surviving during the holocaust and shows the steps they had to take and how they did it.

The book, Maud, by Art Spiegelman is a book expressed in comic form about the holocaust, I really love this book, there is a lot to get from it is very detailed and pictures everything frame to frame of what happened during the holocaust. I think that the author did a very smart choice by choosing to portray the Jews as mice and the Germans as cats, this is very smart since it tells the truth about how the Germans felt about the Jews and how they wanted them out of their country. Throughout the book, you can see the depth of each panel you read, and it only gets more interesting from there, the books source is the authors father, a holocaust survivor.

Reviewed by Suren, Grade 9
Brand Library & Art Center
July 12, 2023 at 2:35 PM
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