Art Spiegelman

A memoir of Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and history. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice, Nazis as cats. Using a unique comic-strip-as-graphic-art format, the story of Vladek Spiegelman's passage through the Nazi Holocaust is told in his own words. Acclaimed as a "quiet triumph" and a "brutally moving work of art," the first volume...

Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits.

Art Spiegelman se aproxima al tema del Holocausto relatando la experiencia de su propia familia en forma de memoria gráfica. Maus es la biografía de Vladek Spiegelman, judío polaco superviviente de los campos de exterminio nazis, contada por su hijo Art, dibujante de cómics que quiere dejar memoria de la persecución sufrida en Europa por millones de personas y de sus consecuencias en la vida cotidiana de las generaciones posteriores. In graphic...

In a comic-book-style tale of the author's parents, Vladek and Anja, Vladek survives Auschwitz, is reunited with Anja, and sires young Art.

Through the magic of words and pictures leaps a book that's not only playful as a puppy -- it is a puppy! Honest.

The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus reflects on the comics form and its influence on his life and art as he traces his evolution from comics obsessed boy to a neurotic adult exploring the effects of his parents' memories of Auschwitz on his own son, in a volume that includes a facsimile of Breakdowns, the artist's comics from the 1970s.

A dog explains how he came to be a book after falling foul of a wizard's curse, in a book that includes a leash, a wagging tale, and fuzzy endpapers.

For decades, readers throughout the world have enjoyed the marvelous stories and illustrations of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. But few know the work Geisel did as a political cartoonist during World War II, for the New York daily newspaper PM. In these extraordinarily trenchant cartoons, Geisel presents "a provocative history of wartime politics" (Entertainment Weekly). Dr. Seuss Goes to War features handsome, large-format reproductions...