Art Spiegelman is an American comic book artist and his best known for his comic memoir "Maus." He beleives that comics are a narrative art form that combines two other forms of expression: words and pictures. He commits his thoughts and emotions to a written narrative.

"Maus was based on the experiences of his parents as concentration camp survivors. It became a graphic novel which portrayed the Jews as mice and the Germans as cats (the Katzies.) His fathers memories and Art's own account complement each other by portraying the lives and struggles of a econd generation of Jewish people whose existences are influenced by the Holocaust, even thought they were not born at the time. The trait separates "Maus" from other Holocaust narratives by offering another side to the story. His Father's final commentary on the strip, " Nobody can understand" shows how difficult is it for the next generation but also for the survivors themselves.



Part of a strip from "Maus"