Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Pantheon · 1986–1992 · 2 issues
About the series
Art Spiegelman’s groundbreaking graphic novel, serialized across two volumes from 1986 to 1992, weaves his father’s harrowing experiences as a Polish Jew in Nazi-occupied Europe with the fraught, present-day relationship between father and son. Published by Pantheon, it famously depicts its human characters as anthropomorphic animals—Jews as mice, Nazis as cats—to starkly dramatize the machinery of the Holocaust and the weight of inherited trauma. A singular work by a single artist-writer, Maus shattered conventions of the comic form, demonstrating its capacity for unflinching memoir and historical testimony.