Art Spiegelman

visual images he wants the reader to imagine. I personally enjoyed the way Spiegelman chose to pay close attention to the details entailed throughout the story. For example the way he choose the Jews to be represented as mice and the Nazi Germans as cats; when in present time we stereotype the fact the cats chase mice. The theme of the story entails many perspectives. Personally, I refer the theme of the story to the relationship Art and Vladek’s carried as a father and son after Vladek’s…

all areas of life; for example, Auschwitz and other concentration death camps. How could prisoners escape the reality of suffering, death, and abuse all concentrated upon themselves? Within the writings of Victor Frankl and the visual novel of Art Spiegelman, ways of coping are shown. The main idea of regaining any trace of happiness is to hold onto hope, followed…

cartoon animals and loveable sidekicks. Maus by Art Spiegelman is a story about the Holocaust, but in comic book form. It tells the story of his father, Vladek Spiegelman, and his encounters during the Holocaust as a Polish Jew. At the same time, it tells the story of Art and his interactions with his father, as they relive memories together. Spiegelman uses visuals to discreetly convey the tragedies and horrors that surrounded the Holocaust. Spiegelman uses visuals to represent Vladek's…

Art Spiegelman takes the harsh reality of the Holocaust and illustrates his story in a comic book. Rather than drawing out humans to portray the characters in his story, Spiegelman effectively portrays each nationality and religion to an animal. This, in my opinion, works very well and the animals can relate to those specific groups in story. Such as the use of Mice as Jews, which are viewed as pest, in other words less than human to the Nazis. I will be able to explain why each of the animals…

guilty of all the good he did not do” .Similarly, Spiegelman feels guilty for not being the ideal son to his father. There are many instances where one can see guilt in this book. Vladek feels guilty for killing the German soldier on the war front. Vladek and Art Spiegelman both have a sense of guilt for Anja’s death. They both are responsible to some extent. Vladek feels guilty about not being able to save Anja from taking her life, whereas Art Spiegelman feels guilty for not giving enough…

By pairing the art of cartooning with the stories of Vladek and Anja Spiegelman, Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus reveals the adversities faced by Holocaust victims. In his work, Art includes the conversations and interactions he has with his father Vladek as he tries to gather details from not only Vladek’s memories about World War II and the Holocaust, but also from his deceased mother’s experience. Although he gains much insight from his father, his mother’s story and presence in the…

Why would an author or in this case a cartoonist write/draw himself into the story? The use of self-insertion adds to the effectiveness of the writer and in this instance, Art Spiegelman uses the concept of self-insertion to effectively tell the story of the Holocaust and tell the story with a post-memory twist. Primarily, the use of self-insertion creates a sense of ethos with the audience. Rather than acting as a regular character, the cartoonist sits in for the reader herself. Acting as a…

According to professor of English Joan Gordon, in “Surviving the Survivor,” Art Spiegelman breaks rules that dictate how Holocaust literature is to be criticized. Defined by authors Jacob Glatstein, Israel Knox, and Samuel Margoshes in their 1975 book An Anthology of Holocaust Literature, these rules are meant to confine such criticism to legislative analysis as opposed to a description (Gordon, 81). Interest in learning these rules about Holocaust writing is my first reason for researching this…

everything up. In Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel, Maus I My Father Bleeds History, was published August 8th, 1986. It reflects the tale of his parents, told by his father (Valdek) surviving the misery of the Holocaust not only through words but through detailed pictures…

Art Spiegleman says in a convention with other cartoonists about Maus, “From the book, a reader might get the impression that the conversations depicted in the narrative were just one small part, a facet of my relationship with my father. In fact, however, they were my relationship with my father. I was doing them to have a relationship with my father. Outside of them, we were still continually at loggerheads.” This exemplifies that Art Spiegelman want to share his unhappy…