Maus

Art Spiegelman's Maus is the definitive graphic novel of the Holocaust, originally serialized in the 1980s and later collected as a two-volume work. Published in this deluxe Flammarion edition beginning in 2012, the series uses a stark, black-and-white style to depict Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, weaving the harrowing story of Spiegelman's father's survival in Auschwitz with the author's own fraught relationship with him. A landmark work that won a special Pulitzer Prize, Maus broke ground by proving that comics could be a medium for serious, complex historical testimony.