Voices From the Archive: Charles Hatfield on Why Maus Is Not Glib
“Maus moves many people for a reason, something your dismissive posturing cannot account for.”
“Maus moves many people for a reason, something your dismissive posturing cannot account for.”
Spiegelman demonstrated that comics, which always labor under the onus of being dismissed as children’s fare, can grapple with the weightiest topics.
An excerpt from The Real, The True, and The Told concerning Art Spiegelman’s Maus
This originally ran in The Comics Journal a ways back. I reprinted it at my old group blog Eaten By Ducks, but I thought it’d be nice to have it here in case I had a reader or two who hadn’t seen it. For me, as for millions of Americans, September 11, 2001 was no [...]