Until my kids got it, they didn’t get it. You have to crack the code and the system. When kids are 4 to 6, this reading thing happens. Spiegelman learned from his kids as he and Mouly worked together to create the Toon Books series: “It’s a classy version of easy readers. On November 22, Spiegelman will attend Books of Wonder’s Rollicking Picture Book Day event to read from his newest kids “comic,” Jack and the Box. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the graphic memoir Maus is also a New York dad of two in a bookish family his wife, Françoise Mouly, founded Toon Books, an imprint aimed at emerging readers. It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Award.Photo: Nadja Spiegelman/courtesy of Pantheon BooksĬhildren learn to read in all sorts of ways, and Art Spiegelman sees a distinct line from comic books to literacy. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Maus, and a Guggenheim fellowship.
His drawings and prints have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. He lives in New York.Īrt Spiegelman is a contributing editor and artist for the New Yorker. His other books include- Breakdowns- From Maus to Now, an Anthology of Strips The Wild Party Open Me, I'm A Dog Jack Cole and Plastic Man- Forms Stretched to Their Limits In the Shadow of No Towers Breakdowns- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Be a Nose Jack and the Box and MetaMaus. It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Award. This combined, definitive edition includes Maus I- A Survivor's Tale and Maus II.Īrt Spiegelman is a contributing editor and artist for the New Yorker. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us. This astonishing retelling of our century's grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in 'drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust' ( The New York Times ). Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. 'The first masterpiece in comic book history' The New Yorker 'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust' The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman - the Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust survivor story
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