Breakdowns

A Conversation with ‘Maus’ Creator Art Spiegelman

In 1973, Art Spiegelman published a three-page comic strip in a small underground publication called “Funny Animals.” It was the first installment of what he called “Maus,” the biography of Spiegelman’s father, Vladek – a Holocaust survivor –  with anthropomorphic mice standing in for Spiegelman, Vladek, and his fellow Jews.  The complete graphic narrative was eventually published […]