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Maus

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/August 22, 2015 by — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:44, 5 August 2015 (UTC)



Maus is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman (pictured in 2007), serialized from 1980 to 1991. It depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The book uses postmodern techniques—most strikingly in its depiction of races of humans as different kinds of animals: Jews as mice, Germans as cats, and non-Jewish Poles as pigs. In 1992 it became the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize. A frame tale timeline in the narrative present begins in 1978 in the Rego Park section of New York City. Much of the story revolves around Spiegelman's troubled relationship with his father, and the absence of his mother who committed suicide when he was 20. Her grief-stricken husband destroyed her written accounts of Auschwitz. The book uses a minimalist drawing style while displaying innovation in its page and panel layouts, pacing, and structure. Spiegelman serialized Maus as an insert in Raw, an avant-garde comics and graphics magazine published by Spiegelman and his wife, Françoise Mouly. It was one of the first graphic novels to receive significant academic attention in the English-speaking world.
 * Most recent similar article(s): 7 April
 * Main editors: Curly Turkey
 * Promoted: Jan 2013
 * Reasons for nomination: 35 years after first series
 * Support as nominator. Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:41, 1 August 2015 (UTC)