Maus: Publication History by https://padlet.com/jpg6173/xf8zlsg2id3kzf9x en-us 2022-09-27 14:40:54 UTC 2022-09-29 14:40:37 UTC hello@padlet.com Art being interviewed bms6755 https://padlet.com/jpg6173/xf8zlsg2id3kzf9x/wish/2315759287 Art doesn’t really understand why everyone loves Maus. 
Why is it a critical and commercial success?
He doesn’t want to be interviewed about his work which you can see as he slowly shrinks to kid form, showing the innocence he has for the story.  He doesn’t want to exploit his father’s life like his publicist wants to do.  He never tended for a specific message in his book, so he doesn’t know how to ask the questions like, “Why should they feel guilty?” He doesn’t feel like an adult because of all the pressure and persistent questions that everyone gives.
Brianna Schroeder ]]> 2022-09-27 14:57:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jpg6173/xf8zlsg2id3kzf9x/wish/2315759287 Time Flies... bms6755 https://padlet.com/jpg6173/xf8zlsg2id3kzf9x/wish/2315760247 The chapter opens up with Artie sitting at his drawing desk. He is shown wearing a mouse mask. This was a huge change from how Vol I was set up. Art uses past and present within one speech bubble. This stood out to me because he was using the time to show the changes that have occurred within his father's lifetime and his own. This also showed that Vol II was taking him a while because of all the recent events in his life. He is drawn with stubble under his mask and he looks tired and depressed. Even though he talks about Vol I being a success he doesn't seem happy about it. 
Julia Gunsiorowski]]> 2022-09-27 14:58:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jpg6173/xf8zlsg2id3kzf9x/wish/2315760247 Chapter Two: Time Flies jpg6173 https://padlet.com/jpg6173/xf8zlsg2id3kzf9x/wish/2315781755 The title of this chapter feels like an interesting play on words because he is talking about the changes in time, like when he compares his father in May of 1944 verses May of 1987. He is also drawn with flies around him. This represents Artie feeling stuck and gross within himself. He feels depressed and these flies support that as they move throughout all the panels. 
Julia Gunsiorowski]]> 2022-09-27 15:09:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jpg6173/xf8zlsg2id3kzf9x/wish/2315781755 Animal Masks bms6755 https://padlet.com/jpg6173/xf8zlsg2id3kzf9x/wish/2315797377 Art makes the characters humans with an animal mask. He uses animals that he doesn’t really use before like rabbits, dogs, and a bear.  He used a cat mask when one interviewer was speaking about the German people and how they should feel.  The bear is the publicist, it gives the essence of a bear hug, that he can’t really escape what the publicist is going to make him do. 
He probably uses the mask to show the readers the impact everything had on him, take the reader out of the father’s narrative and into his own.  
Brianna Schroeder]]> 2022-09-27 15:17:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jpg6173/xf8zlsg2id3kzf9x/wish/2315797377 Complexities of publishing a "bestseller" about the Holocaust jpg6173 https://padlet.com/jpg6173/xf8zlsg2id3kzf9x/wish/2315802483 You can see how working on this book has been very hard for him. Even after publishing Vol I and the success it receives, he feels lost. People want to interview him, they want to figure out his "message" for writing this book but Artie doesn't have a specific message. He just wanted to share his father's story in a medium that can be easier understood. The interviewers want to ask him a bunch of deep questions but Artie doesn't have the answers because all he wanted to do was get his father's story out to the world. All of this made writing Vol II harder for him. He was depressed and lost in all of the media. He wasn't feeling like a functioning adult. 
Julia Gunsiorowski]]> 2022-09-27 15:20:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jpg6173/xf8zlsg2id3kzf9x/wish/2315802483 Graphic artist Art Spiegelman on Maus, politics and 'drawing badly' jpg6173 https://padlet.com/jpg6173/xf8zlsg2id3kzf9x/wish/2315835286 “I didn’t mean comics,” he says now. “I meant art or literature. I didn’t feel it was possible to give structure to this that would be meaningful. I didn’t know how to proceed in making it in comics form, because there wasn’t much of a model for making something like it." 
This quote shows that he didn't want to convey a certain message he just wanted to write something meaningful and share his father's story. He didn't know how to structure such a story but he knew that art combined with literature was going to be a super important part of his story. He wasn't envisioning a "comic" he wanted art. 
Julia Gunsiorowski]]> 2022-09-27 15:36:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jpg6173/xf8zlsg2id3kzf9x/wish/2315835286 Maus' author Art Spiegelman shares the story behind his Pulitzer-winning work jpg6173 https://padlet.com/jpg6173/xf8zlsg2id3kzf9x/wish/2315861864 "People are usually very upset when they first hear that I've done a comic strip about the Holocaust...But it seems to me that comics are, on the one hand, a very direct medium. They come across very viscerally. And on the other hand, they're a very, very abstract medium. You have to do a lot more work to decode a comic strip than you do in understanding a film or even reading a book."
Art Spiegelman knows that using a comic strip format for a topic as dark and important as the Holocaust may be strange but he does it this way because he knows that the readers have to do a lot more to decode a comic and really get to the raw understanding which is what he wanted the readers to experience. He published it this way so readers could get a more in-depth understanding of the story he was telling. 
Brianna Schroeder ]]> 2022-09-27 15:50:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jpg6173/xf8zlsg2id3kzf9x/wish/2315861864 Why ‘Maus’ remains ‘the greatest graphic novel ever written,’ 30 years later jpg6173 https://padlet.com/jpg6173/xf8zlsg2id3kzf9x/wish/2315916560 "Yet Spiegelman only gradually realized what a long and arduous endeavor it would be — just as publishers didn’t initially realize what a literary accomplishment he was gradually carving out."
"'In the beginning, I thought: This will be about a two-year project,' says the cartoonist, who, between each of the book’s chapters, would take on a less creatively taxing assignment. It took him 13 years from conceiving of it as a book to its completion."
Spiegelman didn't expect this to be such a huge project nor did he expect to carve out a huge literary accomplishment. He was simply writing this book to share his father's story and his story as a survivor's son. He chose to do it in a unique way that opened doors for many more graphic novels in the future. It was a long process not only because of how important it was that he do it right due to the sensitivity of the topic but also because pf how hard it was for him to process and write the story. It caused him a lot of depression, especially when working on Vol II after his dad had died. 
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