Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Pantheon · 1986–1991 · 2 issues
About the series
Art Spiegelman’s Maus: A Survivor’s Tale is a landmark graphic novel, originally serialized in two issues by Pantheon from 1986 to 1991, that redefined the medium’s potential for memoir and historical testimony. Written and drawn entirely by Spiegelman, it uses anthropomorphic animals—Jews as mice, Nazis as cats—to tell his father Vladek’s harrowing story of survival during the Holocaust, interwoven with the fraught present-day relationship between father and son. The work’s unflinching honesty, formal innovation, and profound emotional weight earned it a permanent place in literary and comics history, proving the form could tackle the most serious of subjects with depth and artistry.