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Nov 22, 2006 · In a 1992 interview, Art Spiegelman described the genealogy of Maus, his acclaimed comic-book treatment of the Holocaust. He was inspired to write Maus, he stated, when asked to contribute to a commix anthology called Funny Aminals; the only restriction on his creativity was that the story must somehow involve anthropomorphized animals.
- Andrew Loman
- 2006
Spiegelman’s understanding of the racial dimensions of such allegories derived, he notes, from his viewing of American cartoons, but when he discovered its twin in Nazi anti-Semitic caricature, he crossed the Atlantic.
Spiegelman took advantage of the way Nazi propaganda films depicted Jews as vermin, though he was first struck by the metaphor after attending a presentation where Ken Jacobs showed films of minstrel shows along with early American animated films, abundant with racial caricatures.
- Art Spiegelman
- 1991
Spiegelman acknowledges what Jacobs has perceived: twentieth-century American mass culture in the form of Disney cartoons and their like has encoded aspects of racist entertainments that originated in the nineteenth
In depicting Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, Spiegelman provides the reader with forceful, personal images of the Holocaust. Visit artist's website. Illustrations by Art Spiegelman
Sep 29, 2017 · For many, the cartoonist Art Spiegelman’s “Maus: A Survivor’s Tale” is not just an unshakable Holocaust narrative, but a classic engagement, and struggle, with Jewish identity.
Oct 5, 2011 · MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus is the story behind Spiegelman's signature work, complete with interviews, answers to many persistent questions and examples of his early drawings.
