Maus

Art Spiegelman’s Maus is a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel originally serialized in two volumes (1996–2009) by Brombergs, using anthropomorphic animals—mice for Jews, cats for Nazis—to recount his father’s harrowing experiences during the Holocaust. More than a survivor’s tale, it interweaves the fraught present-day relationship between Spiegelman and his father, Vladek, creating a stark, deeply personal meditation on memory, trauma, and the ethics of storytelling. Its groundbreaking form and unflinching content established the comic as a serious literary medium, making it an essential, enduring work of the late 20th century.