“Spiegelman has turned the exuberant fantasy of comics inside out by giving us the most incredible fantasy in comics’ history: something that actually occurred…. The central relationship is not that of cat and mouse, but that of Art and Vladek. Maus is terrifying not for its brutality, but for its tenderness and guilt.” —The New Yorker
“To die, it’s easy. But you have to struggle for life.” —from Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Discover the definitive edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novel that’s been hailed as “the first masterpiece in comic book history” by The New Yorker—one of Variety’s “Banned and Challenged Books Everyone Should Read.”
“I feel like they want a kinder, gentler Holocaust to present to their children.” —Art Spiegelman, responding to the banning of Maus by the McMinn County School Board
In January 2022, a Tennessee school board banned Art Spiegelman’s seminal graphic memoir—the only graphic novel to win the Pulitzer Prize—from their 8th grade curriculum. But with the rise of antisemitism across the U.S., there’s no better, or more important, time to revisit the book that The Wall Street Journal called “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust.”
Chip Kidd is the best known book designer in the business. How well known? He has not one but two books showcasing his innovative design work–Chip Kid Book Two, Work: 2007-2017 is now out from Rizzoli, New York.
