Artie Spiegelman's Interview With Vladek

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While Artie is interviewing Vladek (page 110), his father, the author depicts their environment and the way they interact with each other through slightly simple and iconic drawings. Spiegelman uses bushes and fence to show that they are moving along or walking, he changes the background every panel to give it that effect. Every other panel in this page is borderless creating a lack of gutters throughout the page; each panel pops out and is differentiable. The object that draws the most attention on the page is the diagram of the bunker that Vladek used, to hide from the Germans in WWII. The diagram is displayed within Artie’s notebook, the notebook isn’t drawn within a panel on the page and it merges into other panels as well, signifying its

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