Maus

[[posterous-content:pid___2]]Maus is a biography of the author's father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew and Holocaustsurvivor. It alternates between descriptions of Vladek's life in Poland before and during the Second World War and Vladek's later life in theRego Park neighborhood of New York City. The work is a graphic narrative in which Jews are depicted as mice, while Germans are depicted as cats. It is the only comic book ever to have won a Pulitzer Prize.

I have chosen to look at the illustrations from this comic to see how the relationship between the Jews and and Germans has been depicted by making all the characters animals. The Jews being the mouses and the Germans the Cats, this relates to my work because like my work it relates something as reader we can relate to a situation that we could be unfamiliar with. This comic cleverly puts these two groups of people into these animals that are famously known to chance after each-other. This hard hitting comic touches upon some very hard hitting subjects to do with the war and what the Germans did to the Jew during the War.

I have decided to merely to be inspired and influenced, how they've chosen to relate these terrible series of events by illustrating them with animals, it could be suggested that it makes the storeys more approachable. I love the simple black lined illustration style and how the characters are not to personal but you can relate to them using your own opinions of the animal, germans as the cats, Jews as the mice and police as the pigs! 

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