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The Mouse couldn’t think of a single way in which a tiny mouse could help a lion. He shut his eyes and waited to be eaten. Weiner, Stephen (2003). Faster than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel. NBM Publishing. ISBN 978-1-56163-368-5.

Art tried to keep his father's story chronological, because otherwise he would "never keep it straight". [100] His mother Anja's memories are conspicuously absent from the narrative, given her suicide and Vladek's destruction of her diaries. Hirsch sees Maus in part as an attempt to reconstruct her memory. Vladek keeps her memory alive with the pictures on his desk, "like a shrine", according to Mala. [101] Guilt [ edit ] Gambino, Lauren (April 28, 2015). "Art Spiegelman warns of 'dangerous' outcome as Russian shops ban Maus". The Guardian. Archived from the original on June 2, 2015 . Retrieved August 23, 2015.a b Gorman, Steve (January 28, 2022). "Tennessee school board bans Holocaust-themed graphic novel 'Maus' ". Reuters . Retrieved January 28, 2022. Rosen, Alan Charles (2005). Sounds of Defiance: the Holocaust, Multilingualism, and the Problem of English. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-3962-3. Spiegelman displays his sense of guilt in many ways. He suffers anguish over his dead brother, Richieu, who perished in the Holocaust, and whom he feels he can never live up to. [102] The eighth chapter, made after the publication and unexpected success of the first volume, opens with a guilt-ridden Spiegelman (now in human form, with a strapped-on mouse mask) atop a pile of corpses—the corpses of the six million Jews upon whom Maus ' success was built. [103] He is told by his psychiatrist that his father feels guilt for having survived and for outliving his first son, and that some of Art's guilt may spring from painting his father in such an unflattering way. [104] [105] As he had not lived in the camps himself, he finds it difficult to understand or visualize this "separate universe", and feels inadequate in portraying it. [27] [106] Racism [ edit ] Couvreur, Daniel (March 5, 2012). "Katz a-t-il défiguré Maus?". Le Soir (in French). Archived from the original on November 2, 2013 . Retrieved June 15, 2012.

That’s the funniest thing I’ve ever heard,’ said the Lion. ‘A tiny mouse helping a huge lion like me. I’m not going to eat you after all, little Mouse. You’re too funny to eat. I’m going to let you go.’ Defense of 'Maus' erupts online after McMinn County schools remove it from curriculum". Yahoo. January 28, 2022. Baym, Nina; Klinkowitz, Jerome; Krupat, Arnold; Wallace, Patricia B., eds. (2007). The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Vol.E. W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0393927436. Reibmann, James E. (2001). "Fredric Wertham, Spiegelman's Maus, and Representations of the Holocaust". In Baetens, Jan (ed.). The Graphic Novel. Leuven University Press. pp.23–30. ISBN 978-90-5867-109-7.Brown, Joshua (1988). "Of Mice and Memory". Oral History Review. Oral History Association (Spring): 91–109. doi: 10.1093/ohr/16.1.91. ISSN 0094-0798. Kannenberg, Gene Jr. (February 1999). Groth, Gary (ed.). "#4: Maus". The Comics Journal. Fantagraphics Books (210). ISSN 0194-7869. Hays, Matthew (October 8, 2011). "Of Maus and man: Art Spiegelman revisits his Holocaust classic". The Globe and Mail. Spiegelman developed an interest in comics early and began drawing professionally at 16. [43] He spent a month in Binghamton State Mental Hospital in 1968 after a nervous breakdown. Shortly after he got out, his mother died by suicide. [2] Spiegelman's father was not happy with his son's involvement in the hippie subculture. Spiegelman said that when he bought himself a German Volkswagen it damaged their already-strained relationship "beyond repair". [44] Around this time, Spiegelman read in fanzines about such graphic artists as Frans Masereel who had made wordless novels. The discussions in those fanzines about making the Great American Novel in comics inspired him. [45] From the original, more detailed 1972 "Maus" strip Jannequin, Jean-Paul (April 1990). "Druillet and Spiegelman Take Grand Prizes". The Comics Journal. Fantagraphics Books (121): 19. ISSN 0194-7869.