Art's art

Art Spiegelman's Maus is beautiful. It is interesting that he chose to tell this story in the form of a graphic novel. At the time that Spiegelman wrote this book, the majority of book written in this way were comic books. The way he decided to format a story as intense as the holocaust and as personal as his father's story certainly a questionable. However is allows his story to standout. Perhaps he wanted to reader to approach the book in a different light than they would usually take when reading a biography about the holocaust. a thought kept coming into my mind is whether or not this book enjoyed by children. The way that Spiegelman made the characters of the book into different animals and the similarities this book has with a comic makes it almost childlike. I believe that he intended for the reader of this book to be a mature reader, but it is attractive to children. This is interesting to me in that it seems that he wants the reader to read the book innocently as a child. To see the Vladek, a victim of the holocaust, as human.