A richly illustrated book in which leading cultural critics, authors, and academics reflect on the radical achievement and innovation of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Maus

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Art Spiegelman is one of our most influential contemporary artists, and it is hard to overstate his effect on postwar American culture and the world of comics. Maus has shaped the fields of literature, history, and art, and enlivened our collective sense of what these prac...

In Maus maakt de lezer kennis met Vladek Spiegelman,

een joodse overlevende van de Tweede Wereldoorlog,

en zijn zoon Art. Ze herbeleven een historie die te groot

is om je mee te kunnen verzoenen. Met Maus verwierf

Spiegelman wereldfaam, het boek werd vertaald in meer

dan twaalf talen en het is de enige strip die ooit de Pulitzerprijs

heeft gewonnen. Maus is een literair en beeldend

meesterwerk, onmisbaar in je boekenkast!

The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman - the Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust survivor story'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust' Wall Street Journal'The first masterpiece in comic book history' The New YorkerThe Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon ...

Breakdowns, the legendary 1978 collection of comics by Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Maus, presents the seminal works that changed how comics are made and appreciated today.

Innovative, serious, funny, and many decades ahead of its time, the book is presented here in its entirety . . . along with an introduction almost as long as the book it introduces that’s as autobiographically intimate and experimentally daring as everything else in Breakdowns.