Art Spiegelman's Maus stands "among the remarkable achievements in comics," according to Dale Luciano in Comics Journal. Maus, an epic parable of the Holocaust that substitutes mice and cats for human...
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Art Spiegelman, the son of Holocaust survivors, is one of the most prominent "second-generation" creators of depictions of the Holocaust and an important contemporary American sequential artist. Since...
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In the following essay, Pekar provides a generally favorable assessment of Art Spiegelman's Maus, characterizing the work as significant, but contending that Spiegelman's depiction of hu...
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In the following essay, Witek presents a detailed analysis of Art Spiegelman's Maus, describing it as a significant work of art and literature that powerfully illustrates the impact of sequenti...
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Art Spiegleman's comic book within the comic book Maus is titled "Prisoner on the Hell Planet: A Case History." This text within a text describes, in horrific detail through pictures, Artie's failed e...
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TV's favorite animated family, "The Simpsons," already has a hit movie, a video game on the way, a new theme-park ride and the title of America's longest-running sitcom. So what's next? Plenty, acc...
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Who We Are: On Being (and Not Being) a Jewish American Writer, edited by Derek Rubin. Schocken Books, 348 pages, $25.When I entered college, in the mid-1960's, my freshman class was asked to read t...
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Remember the moment in Kill Bill: Vol. 2 when Uma Thurman plucks out Daryl Hannah's last remaining eyeball and crushes-really squishes it-between her bare toes, to the evident delectation of Quenti...
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Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman
Critical Essay by Harvey Pekar
"Prisoner on the Hell Planet: A Case History"
Writers: Don't expect 'Simpsons' to slow
