Maus: A Survivor’s Tale
by Art Spiegelman
Maus: A Survivor's Tale
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Maus II: a Survivor's Tale
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Why was this book challenged?
Reasons: Violence, Profanity
Maus by Art Spiegelman has been frequently challenged and banned through the years for reasons ranging from profanity, violence, to nude imagery.
Read the case study on Maus from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
Best known for his Holocaust narrative “Maus,” Spiegelman is a pioneer in bringing comics into the realm of fine literature. In addition to “Maus,” Spiegelman’s works include the post-9/11 collection of broadsides, “In the Shadow of No Towers,” three comic anthologies for children and many covers of The New Yorker magazine. Spiegelman has been named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People (2015) and has received the Grand Prix at the Angoulême International Comics Festival among other prestigious awards.
Read about Maus at the Banned Books Book Club.
Read review excerpts, responses to challenges of this book, and more on Book Résumés.
Art Spiegelman visited Gonzaga University on September 25, 2018.
Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novelist and comic literacy advocate Art Spiegelman visited Gonzaga University on September 25, 2018, where he gave a talk titled "What the %@&*! Happened to Comics?" Best known for his Holocaust narrative, Maus, Spiegelman is a pioneer in bringing "comics out of the toy closet and onto the literature shelves." In addition to Maus and its sequel, Maus II, Spiegelman's work includes the post-9/11collection of broadsides, In the Shadow of No Towers, three comic anthologies for children, and many New Yorker Magazine covers. Spiegelman has been named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People, and has also received Grand Prix at the Angoulême International Comics Festival among many other prestigious awards.
