Maus II: A Survivor's Tale; And Here My Troubles Began
Art Spiegelman New York: Pantheon Books, 1992. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Trade paperback. 144 p. Illustrations. Volume 2 only of the 2-volume set, profusely illus., some wear and soiling to covers. A unique and powerful tale of a Holocaust survivor seen through the art and words of his son, avant-garde cartoonist Art Spiegelman. Spiegelman won a special Pulitzer Prize and a Guggenheim fellowship for Maus. Art Spiegelman (born February 15, 1948) is an American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus. From 1992 he spent a decade as contributing artist for The New Yorker, where he made several high-profile covers. Spiegelman began his career with the Topps bubblegum card company in the mid-1960s; there he co-created parodic series such as Wacky Packages in the 1960s and the Garbage Pail Kids in the 1980s. He gained prominence in the comix scene in the 1970s with short, experimental, and often autobiographical work. Spiegelman turned focus to the book-length Maus, about his relation with his father, a Holocaust survivor. The book depicts Germans as cats, Jews as mice, and ethnic Poles as pigs. It won a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992 and has gained a reputation as a pivotal work, responsible for bringing scholarly attention to the comics medium. Chapters one through four were originally published in somewhat different form in Raw magazine between 1986 and 1991. Art Speigelman was the co-founder/editor of Raw, an acclaimed magazine of avant-garde comics and graphics. With the intention of creating a book-length work based on his father's recollections of the Holocaust Spiegelman began to interview his father again in 1978 and made a research visit in 1979 to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where his parents had been imprisoned by the Nazis. The book, Maus, appeared one chapter at a time as an insert in Raw beginning with the second issue in December 1980. Spiegelman learned in 1985 that Steven Spielberg was producing an animated film about Jewish mice who escape persecution in Eastern Europe by fleeing to the United States. He struggled to find a publisher until in 1986, after the publication in The New York Times of a rave review of the work-in-progress, Pantheon agreed to release a collection of the first six chapters. Condition: Good. No dust jacket as issued.
Keywords: Nazi, Jews, Anti-semitism, Vladek Speigelman, Survivors, Anja Zylberberg, Sosnowiec, Auschwitz, Birkenau, Suicide, Death Camps, Holocaust, Genocide, Graphic Novel, Comic Books. Comix
ISBN: 0679729771
[Book #65948]
Price: $45.00