Maus I & II
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Maus I & II
So, have you heard of this comic series, I'm sure some of you have. I've been eyeing it at the bookstore for some time but today I finally picked up a nice two package set of the graphic comic. The story is so full of passion and its hard to believe that its just a simple comic book, a story of jews and nazi germany but set to mice and cats. If you haven't heard of this, and you get a chacne to pick it up, give it a look, the art and story are by Art Spiegelman. Cheers.
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I read these about 15 years ago or there abouts and absolutely loved them. You are right about them Fiz in my opinion. They are a great find. Beautiful comics, with passion and sensitivity. Hear hear!
The reality is in this head. Mine. I'm the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.
Yeah. Maus is a terrific - and terrifying - comic, one of my favourites ever. I reread it just the other year and it's still just as good. Anyone who hasn't read it, do yourself a favor and read it now. You can probably find it at your local public library (at least you can here in Sweden 
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Btw, has anyone seen the original Proto-Maus? Back in the 70's, Spiegelman did a three-page comic, also called Maus, that obviously prefigured the later work although it was extremely brief. The setup was the same - old mouse telling his son about the Holocaust at the hands of the cats. That one looked completely different, though. The drawings were - I can't say "realistic", but far more detailed, in a typical 70's underground-comic vein - a bit like a cleaner Robert Crumb. It was visually beautiful in a way the final Maus isn't, but I still think it worked better with the much more stylized approach of the later work.
).Btw, has anyone seen the original Proto-Maus? Back in the 70's, Spiegelman did a three-page comic, also called Maus, that obviously prefigured the later work although it was extremely brief. The setup was the same - old mouse telling his son about the Holocaust at the hands of the cats. That one looked completely different, though. The drawings were - I can't say "realistic", but far more detailed, in a typical 70's underground-comic vein - a bit like a cleaner Robert Crumb. It was visually beautiful in a way the final Maus isn't, but I still think it worked better with the much more stylized approach of the later work.