Art Spiegelman was brilliant in creating a comic that portrays a survivors tale of the Holocaust. Although Vladek's story told in Art Speigelman's Maus is similar to many survivor stories of the Holocaust, it is portrayed in such a different and intriguing way. Ultimately, the use of the comic book format helps to make this work a tremendous success, both historically and culturally. What makes Maus so interesting compared to traditional oral history or story …showed first 75 words of 1524 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1524 total…name and dates. What does this suggest? Is the entire family now dead? The artist's name and the dates which presumably refer to the writing of Maus, like a painter's signature at the bottom of a painting, are one last reminder that what we have been dealing with is a fiction. What is its relationship to the truth symbolized in the grave stone--the reality of his parents' lives? That's up to us to sort out.