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Art Spiegelman's "Maus" Books
1991 Graphic Novel

'The Complate Maus' by Art Spiegelman 1996 book cover

synopsis & history
the book/s
the author
movies & TV, plays, other media
image gallery

color photograph of cartoonist Art Spiegelman, 2022

"The genre-bending qualities that previously condemned comics to the bonfire are now widely celebrated
by academics and critics as uniquely apt for making sense of an uncertain world."
— Harry Backlund in The Paris Review, 13 February 2014

"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading." — Isaac Asimov [1920-92]

"The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust." — The Wall Street Journal

"When I am happy I don't feel like working. But when something occurs that is unsettling then I have to work it out
through the drawings and comics." — Art Spiegelman, 2013 interview

Synopsis

Days after
The book's epigraph is a quote from Adolf Hitler: "The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but they are not human."

History of The Books Pantheon collected the last five chapters in 1991 in a second volume subtitled "And Here My Troubles Began". In 1992, the two-volume work became the first (and to date only) graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize (the Special Award in Letters)
In January 2022, the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee voted to ban Art Spiegelman's acclaimed graphic novel "Maus", which depicts his father's experiences as a holocaust survivor; within days, "Maus" reached the top position on Amazon’s best-seller list and then "The Complete Maus" quickly sold out on Amazon.

Art Spiegelman entry at Wikipedia
'Maus' books entry at Wikipedia
browse the Art Spiegelman Store {returns 50 titles} at Amazon
Art Spiegelman credits [since 1975] at Internet Movie Database

The Book/s
'Maus' books entry at Wikipedia
'Maus' books Toonopedia page
In 1992, 'Maus' became the first - and to date only - graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize (the Special Award in Letters).

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Maus, Part 1 1991 book by Art Spiegelman    "Maus: A Survivor's Tale, Part 1 - My Father Bleeds History" [1991] by Art Spiegelman
a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies, an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma
Pantheon Books 9x6½ pb [8/86] out of print/used
Penguin Books, Ltd 9x6½ pb [1989] out of print/used

Maus, Part 2 1991 book by Art Spiegelman    "Maus: A Survivor's Tale, Part 2 - And Here My Troubles Began" [1991] by Art Spiegelman
this sequel moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills; genuinely tragic and comic by turns
Pantheon Books 9¼x6½ pb [9/92] for $12.20
Penguin Books, Ltd 9¼x6¼ pb [3/92] out of print/used
Pantheon Books 9½x6½ hardcover [11/91] out of print/used

Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman    "The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale" [1992]
received a Special Pulitzer Award in 1992
Pantheon Books 9½x6¾ pb boxed set [10/93] for $17.64
Penguin Books, Ltd 9¼x6¼ pb [9/2003] out of print/used
Pantheon Books 9½x6¾ hardcover [11/96] for $22.05

Maus L'Intégrale book from Flammarion France    "The Complete Maus" has been translated into at least 30 other languages
Beautifully Media Korean edition pb [6/2014] out of print/used
Literatura Random House Spanish edition 9x6¼ pb [6/2015] out of print/used
Reservoir Books Spanish edition pb [2018] out of print/used
A.R.T. Russian edition 9x6¼ pb [2021] out of print/used
Flammarion French edition 9¾x6¼ pb [11/98] import/scarce
Flammarion French edition 9¾x6½ hardcover [1/2012] for $55.99

Maus I & II 1995 boxed set    "Maus I & II" boxed set [1993]
boxed set of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel in its original two-volume paperback format,
re-released to include a 16-page booklet designed by the artist
Pantheon Books slipcover 9½x6¾ pb box set [10/93] for $26.90
Pantheon Books slipcover 9½x6¾ pb box set [11/95] out of print/scarce

Comics and The Holocaust book by Pierre Alban Delannoy    "Maus d'Art Spiegelman: Bande Dessinée et Shoah (Comics and The Holocaust)" [2002]
by Pierre Alban Delannoy
the first overall analysis of "Maus" proposes to question the relevance of the comic strip to deal with a subject as serious as that of the Holocaust, concluding that "Maus" is a senseless attempt at doing so
Editions L'Harmattan French-language 8½x5¼ pb [2002] import/used

MetaMaus / Inside A Modern Classic book by Art Spiegelman    "MetaMaus: A Look Inside A Modern Classic" [2011] by Art Spiegelman
DVD-R provides a digitized reference copy of "The Complete Maus" linked to a deep archive
of audio interviews with his survivor father, historical documents, and a wealth of Spiegelman’s
private notebooks & sketches
Pantheon Books hardcover book+DVD-R [10/2011] out of print/scarce

The Author

cartoonist Art Spiegelman [b. 1948 in Sweden]
Art Spiegelman entry at Wikipedia
browse the Art Spiegelman Store {returns 50 titles} at Amazon
Art Spiegelman credits [since 1975] at Internet Movie Database
Art Spiegelman entry at Lambiek's Comiclopedia [est. 1999]
publisher's Art Spiegelman homepage
publisher's Art Spiegelman Facebook page

wife Françoise Mouly Spiegelman [b. 10/1955 in Paris, France] - married 1977
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise_Mouly
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0609782/
daughter writer & editor Nadja Spiegelman [b. 5/1987]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadja_Spiegelman
son Dashiell Spiegelman [b. 1991]
deceased brother Rysio Henryk 'Richieu' Spiegelman [1937-43]

http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/press/australian-interviews-art-spiegelman/ 9/2013 interview

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Other Works

Prisoner On The Hell Planet comic by Art Spiegelman "Prisoner On The Hell Planet: A Case History" short comic [1972]
by Art Spiegelman (age 24)
author's early attempt to 'work thru' psychological dilemmas remaining after the tragic events of his youth; in its stark style and pitch-black outlook, you can see the influence of Lynd Ward’s woodcuts; illustrations here later included in "Maus"; extremely rare, not found on Amazon or elsewhere • short 11/2018 article by University of Central Florida grad student Tiffanie Colvin

the lecture "Language of The Comics" delivered at The Collective for Living Cinema

The Wild Party epic poem by Joseph Moncure March    "The Wild Party" book-length narrative poem [1926 & 1994]
by Joseph Moncure March [1899-1977]
rhymed text with illustrations & Introduction by Art Spiegelman
Pantheon Books 8½x5¼ pb [3/99] for $16.00
Pantheon Books 9x5½ hardcover [11/94] for $45.99

Open Me...I'm a Dog children's book by Art Spiegelman    "Open Me ... I'm A Dog" children's book [ages 6-8; 1997]
by Art Spiegelman
"Through the magic of words and pictures leaps a book that's not only playful as a puppy
– it IS a puppy! Honest."
HarperCollins Children's Books hardcover [9/97] out of print/used

Jack Cole and Plastic Man book by Art Spiegelman & Chip Kidd    "Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched To Their Limits" [2001]
by Art Spiegelman & Chip Kidd
biography of pinup & comics artist Jack Cole [1914-58]
Chronicle Books 10¼x7¼ pb [8/2001] out of print/used

In The Shadow of No Towers book by Art Spiegelman    "In The Shadow of No Towers" [2004] best seller by Art Spiegelman
drawings and text that convey the unfathomable enormity of the September 11 event itself, the obvious & insidious effects that it had on the author's life, and the extraordinary, often hidden changes that have been enacted in the name of post-9/11 national security and that have begun to undermine the very foundation of American democracy
Pantheon Books 14½x10 hardcover [9/2004] for $39.59
Pantheon Books hardcover [9/2004] for $52.23

The New York Trilogy book by Paul Auster, Illustrations by Art Spiegelman    "The New York Trilogy" [2006] by Paul Auster,
Illustrations by Art Spiegelman, Introduction by Luc/Lucy Sante
originally published sequentially as "City of Glass" [1985], "Ghosts" [1986], and "The Locked Room" [1986]; each novel is a different postmodern interpretation of detective & mystery fiction
Penguin Classics Reissue 8½x5¾ pb [3/2006] for $17.69
book entry at Wikipedia

Portrait of The Artist As A Young %@&*! book by Art Spiegelman    "Breakdowns: Portrait of The Artist As A Young %@&*! - Adults Only" [2008]
by Art Spiegelman
originally published as 19-page comic in Virginia Quarterly Review, 2005-2006; traces the artist's evolution from a MAD-comics obsessed boy in Rego Park, Queens, to a neurotic adult examining the effect of his parents' memories of Auschwitz on his own son
Pantheon 14¼x10¼ hardcover [10/2008] for $27.50

Library of America Six Novels in Woodcuts by Lynd Ward    "Lynd Ward: "Gods' Man" [1929], "Madman's Drum" [1930], and "Wild Pilgrimage" [1932] - Three Novels In Woodcuts" [2010]
Edited by Art Spiegelman
Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/2010] for $25.20
"Lynd Ward: "Prelude To A Million Years" [1933], "Song Without Words"
[1936], and "Vertigo" [1937] - Three Novels In Woodcuts" [2010]
Edited by Art Spiegelman
Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/2010] for $25.20
"Lynd Ward: Six Novels In Woodcuts" Boxed Set [2010]
Library of America 8½x5½x4" {5.1 pounds!} hardcover [10/2010] for $44.10

Co-Mix Retrospective book by Art Spiegelman    "Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps" [2013]
by Art Spiegelman
a chronological sampling of Spiegelman's extraordinary imagination, including his precocious early work, underground comics, preparatory notes and sketches for 'Maus', indelible covers for The New Yorker, lithographic efforts, and much else
Drawn and Quarterly 13½x9½ hardcover [9/2013] for $36.21

Little Nemo's Big New Dreams book    "Little Nemo's Big New Dreams: A TOON Graphic" [ages 12 & up; 2015] Edited by Josh O'Neill, Andrew Carl & Chris Stevens; Forewords by Françoise Mouly & Art Spiegelman
more than thirty glorious, unforgettable, or even silly dreams selected from original broadsheet-sized editions of Winsor McCay's legendary comic strip "Little Nemo in Slumberland", circa 1905
TOON Graphics 11x7 hardcover [9/2015] for $3.90 {sic}

one-shot comic "Notes From A First Amendment Fundamentalist" [2015]
in which Spiegelman defended 'the right to be offended in cartoons'

Movies & Television, Stageplays, Other Media
Art Spiegelman credits [since 1975] at Internet Movie Database
author Spiegelman has refused to sell movie rights to "Maus" for thirty years because 'comics adhere to the brain better'.

Comic Book Confidential docufilm by Ron Mann "Comic Book Confidential" [Sphinx/Cinecom June 1989]
Featured artists include Lynda Barry, Charles Burns, Sue Coe, Robert Crumb, Will Eisner, Al Feldstein, Shary Flenniken, William M. Gaines, Bill Griffith {'Zippy the Pinhead'}, Jaime Hernández, Jack Kirby, Harvey Kurtzman, Stan Lee, Paul Mavrides, Frank Miller, Victor Moscoso, Françoise Mouly, Dan O'Neill, Harvey Pekar, Spain Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton & Art Spiegelman • Co-produced & co-written by Charles Lippincott; co-written & directed by Ron Mann; new introduction by Kevin Smith added to DVD in 2002
Homevision color DVD [7/2002] for $17.99
Homevision color VHS [9/2001] out of prodn/used
full credits at IMDb

Will Eisner, Portrait of A Sequential Artist docufilm "Will Eisner: Portrait of A Sequential Artist" docufilm by Jon & Andrew Cooke
[festival circuit 2007; DVD release July 2010]
Cartoonist Will Eisner [1917-2005] had a sixty-year career, and influenced every aspect of graphic storytelling. Co-produced & written by Jon B. Cooke; directed by Andrew D. Cooke; narrated by Art Spiegelman; featuring interviews with Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Chabon, Jules Feiffer, Jack Kirby, Art Spiegelman, Frank Miller, Stan Lee, Gil Kane & many others • full credits at IMDb
Montilla Pictures color Blu-ray [7/2010] out of prodn/used
the Blu-ray disk includes the famous "Shop Talk" tapes
Montilla Pictures color DVD [7/2010] out of prodn/used

watch BBC-TV 12/2011 interview [7:42] at YouTube

"Art Spiegelman, Traits de Mémoire" documentary [2010] /tt1591607/

"Still Moving: Pilobolus At Forty" documentary [2012] /tt2093237/

watch ABC-Australia 10/2013 "Life After Maus" short film [11:06] at YouTube

Spiegelman Co-Mix exhibit [Nov 2013 - March 2014] at The Jewish Museum in New York City
watch 12/2013 interview from Co-Mix exhibit [3:54] at YouTube

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https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/02/13/the-silent-treatment/

"The Complete MAUS" Video Game [1995] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5734034/

Image Gallery

'Maus 2022' political cartoon by Lalo Alcarez: When you don't read history books, history repeats itself 1/2022 Maus political cartoon by Andy Marlette

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	"Maus: A Survivor's Tale, Part 1 - My Father Bleeds History" [1991] by Art Spiegelman a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies, an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma Pantheon Books 9x6½ pb [8/86] out of print/used Penguin Books, Ltd 9x6½ pb [1989] out of print/used
	"Maus: A Survivor's Tale, Part 2 - And Here My Troubles Began" [1991] by Art Spiegelman this sequel moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills; genuinely tragic and comic by turns Pantheon Books 9¼x6½ pb [9/92] for $12.20 Penguin Books, Ltd 9¼x6¼ pb [3/92] out of print/used Pantheon Books 9½x6½ hardcover [11/91] out of print/used
	"The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale" [1992] received a Special Pulitzer Award in 1992 Pantheon Books 9½x6¾ pb boxed set [10/93] for $17.64 Penguin Books, Ltd 9¼x6¼ pb [9/2003] out of print/used Pantheon Books 9½x6¾ hardcover [11/96] for $22.05
	"The Complete Maus" has been translated into at least 30 other languages Beautifully Media Korean edition pb [6/2014] out of print/used Literatura Random House Spanish edition 9x6¼ pb [6/2015] out of print/used Reservoir Books Spanish edition pb [2018] out of print/used A.R.T. Russian edition 9x6¼ pb [2021] out of print/used Flammarion French edition 9¾x6¼ pb [11/98] import/scarce Flammarion French edition 9¾x6½ hardcover [1/2012] for $55.99
	"Maus I & II" boxed set [1993] boxed set of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel in its original two-volume paperback format, re-released to include a 16-page booklet designed by the artist Pantheon Books slipcover 9½x6¾ pb box set [10/93] for $26.90 Pantheon Books slipcover 9½x6¾ pb box set [11/95] out of print/scarce
	"Maus d'Art Spiegelman: Bande Dessinée et Shoah (Comics and The Holocaust)" [2002] by Pierre Alban Delannoy the first overall analysis of "Maus" proposes to question the relevance of the comic strip to deal with a subject as serious as that of the Holocaust, concluding that "Maus" is a senseless attempt at doing so Editions L'Harmattan French-language 8½x5¼ pb [2002] import/used
	"MetaMaus: A Look Inside A Modern Classic" [2011] by Art Spiegelman DVD-R provides a digitized reference copy of "The Complete Maus" linked to a deep archive of audio interviews with his survivor father, historical documents, and a wealth of Spiegelman’s private notebooks & sketches Pantheon Books hardcover book+DVD-R [10/2011] out of print/scarce

	"The Wild Party" book-length narrative poem [1926 & 1994] by Joseph Moncure March [1899-1977] rhymed text with illustrations & Introduction by Art Spiegelman Pantheon Books 8½x5¼ pb [3/99] for $16.00 Pantheon Books 9x5½ hardcover [11/94] for $45.99
	"Open Me ... I'm A Dog" children's book [ages 6-8; 1997] by Art Spiegelman "Through the magic of words and pictures leaps a book that's not only playful as a puppy – it IS a puppy! Honest." HarperCollins Children's Books hardcover [9/97] out of print/used
	"Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched To Their Limits" [2001] by Art Spiegelman & Chip Kidd biography of pinup & comics artist Jack Cole [1914-58] Chronicle Books 10¼x7¼ pb [8/2001] out of print/used
	"In The Shadow of No Towers" [2004] best seller by Art Spiegelman drawings and text that convey the unfathomable enormity of the September 11 event itself, the obvious & insidious effects that it had on the author's life, and the extraordinary, often hidden changes that have been enacted in the name of post-9/11 national security and that have begun to undermine the very foundation of American democracy Pantheon Books 14½x10 hardcover [9/2004] for $39.59 Pantheon Books hardcover [9/2004] for $52.23
	"The New York Trilogy" [2006] by Paul Auster, Illustrations by Art Spiegelman, Introduction by Luc/Lucy Sante originally published sequentially as "City of Glass" [1985], "Ghosts" [1986], and "The Locked Room" [1986]; each novel is a different postmodern interpretation of detective & mystery fiction Penguin Classics Reissue 8½x5¾ pb [3/2006] for $17.69 book entry at Wikipedia
	"Breakdowns: Portrait of The Artist As A Young %@&*! - Adults Only" [2008] by Art Spiegelman originally published as 19-page comic in Virginia Quarterly Review, 2005-2006; traces the artist's evolution from a MAD-comics obsessed boy in Rego Park, Queens, to a neurotic adult examining the effect of his parents' memories of Auschwitz on his own son Pantheon 14¼x10¼ hardcover [10/2008] for $27.50
	"Lynd Ward: "Gods' Man" [1929], "Madman's Drum" [1930], and "Wild Pilgrimage" [1932] - Three Novels In Woodcuts" [2010] Edited by Art Spiegelman Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/2010] for $25.20 "Lynd Ward: "Prelude To A Million Years" [1933], "Song Without Words" [1936], and "Vertigo" [1937] - Three Novels In Woodcuts" [2010] Edited by Art Spiegelman Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/2010] for $25.20 "Lynd Ward: Six Novels In Woodcuts" Boxed Set [2010] Library of America 8½x5½x4" {5.1 pounds!} hardcover [10/2010] for $44.10
	"Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps" [2013] by Art Spiegelman a chronological sampling of Spiegelman's extraordinary imagination, including his precocious early work, underground comics, preparatory notes and sketches for 'Maus', indelible covers for The New Yorker, lithographic efforts, and much else Drawn and Quarterly 13½x9½ hardcover [9/2013] for $36.21
	"Little Nemo's Big New Dreams: A TOON Graphic" [ages 12 & up; 2015] Edited by Josh O'Neill, Andrew Carl & Chris Stevens; Forewords by Françoise Mouly & Art Spiegelman more than thirty glorious, unforgettable, or even silly dreams selected from original broadsheet-sized editions of Winsor McCay's legendary comic strip "Little Nemo in Slumberland", circa 1905 TOON Graphics 11x7 hardcover [9/2015] for $3.90 {sic}

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Art Spiegelman's "Maus" Books
1991 Graphic Novel