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Maus I & II
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 10:20 pm
by FizbansTalking_Hat
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.
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 12:32 am
by Edinburghemma
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!
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 9:40 am
by Theo
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
).
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.