Maus Comic Book Essay

Explaining the graphic novel of “Maus” Maus is a very unique comic book very different from other comic books this comic book tells us about a horrify event. Maus tells us a story of a person that survivor the Holocaust his own father Vladek. The comic book use animals instead of people and the use different animals for different race. This helps the reader understand more what is going on then having human characters. Maus is more affective as a graphic novel because it involves horrifying grey and black comic book as well as a character being animals with humans’ characteristics while some people think Speigelman should have made a traditional text instead, Maus is actually more effective as a comic book. As Speigelman wrote this comic book it made it more interesting seeing how successful a comic …show more content…
The one reason is that when you have a very strong horrifying event like the Holocaust it needs to be grey and black because if you use color it would not be as horrifying as it really is. Another reason is when you look at history event like World War II you think about black and grey because they really did not have color back then. People uses the color black for bad event that happened to them because black is such a strong color. When Speigelman made his first little comic book of his life was when he was younger about the time his mother Anja’s commit suicide the title was “prisoner on the Hell planet” (93). It tells how Speigelman felt in that moment, he felt that his mother put him to jail and it was his fault she died it shows him in jail and this was the darkest pages because for him this was the worst event he had been to. Not only that but Stanislav Kolar says that he ”could not imagine that a comic book could be an adequate from to convey such a horrifying experience as he mass extermination of European Jewry during World War II”