First published 2011
Art Spiegelman pores over his personal notebooks and interviews with his survivor father, revealing the painstaking process of crafting Maus, his Pulitzer-winning graphic novel. Haunting wartime memories and the weight of bearing witness collide as Spiegelman wrestles with how to depict the unspeakable in comics form. At its core, MetaMaus is an intimate portrait of an artist grappling with his family's trauma and his own artistic vision.
Genres: holocaust, biography, art, literary-fiction, historical, graphic-novels, memoir, comics
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: grappling-with-trauma, personal-journey
304 pages · Paperback · Pantheon
Content warnings: war