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  • IXIixi@mastodon.online
    Aug 12, 2026, 3:09 PM

    After "Maus" comic strips were published in Raw magazine regularly since 1980, Art Spiegelman's "Maus: a survivor’s tale I: My Father Bleeds History" was released on 12 August 1986.

    Spending 13 years on the depiction of his father's experiences during the Holocaust, the anthropomorphic comic would become the first to win a Pulitzer Prize, using 'images that are too brutal to comprehend if you see them in photos'.

    "Maus — unflinching, honest, and daringly creative — heralded a new genre."

    Two kneeling mice look ahead, the left one in a brown trench coat, with one arm embracing the other, to their side in a green blanket, whilst positioned in front of a large, white circle with a black, stylised cat's head, resembling Adolf Hitler's moustache and haircut, in front of a big swastika. 'MAUS' in large, red, dripping letters at the top, with smaller 'art spiegelman' above it. 'A Survivor’s Tale' in red underneath the mice, and 'I: My Father Bleeds History' in white, except the 'I' in yellow on a red vertical bar along the bottom edge.
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  • IXIixi@mastodon.online
    Aug 12, 2026, 3:09 PM

    "Spiegelman decided to publish the book in two volumes because he learned Steven Spielberg was making An American Tail, an animated film about a family of Jewish mice fleeing Cossacks and cats in early-20th-century Russia.

    Spiegelman thought that, if he waited until he completed both volumes of Maus, people would believe he had gotten the idea from Spielberg instead of the other way around. The publication of Maus I preceded the release of An American Tail by three months."

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