Week 7: Maus

Maus by Art Speigelman is a very impactful piece. It's told in a very interesting way, cutting back and forth between the past and present. It's also very heartfelt and feels very genuine despite the visual aesthetics. It's fascinating that we can become so attached to these characters despite their lack of human qualities in a visual sense, but we still feel them as real people. I think that the art style definitely matches the story though, nothing feels off putting or strange. The symbolism is also really clear, between the cat's being nazi's and the mice being the Jewish people.

I really like this because it's a lot different from other comics we have read up to this point. It is definitely longer, but it has more of a personal narrative to it. Some of the underground comics came close in a sense to the seriousness of the topics they were writing about. However, I think Maus really tapped into something special as it reads more like a novel in content, vs comics that are mostly joke based.

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