Preview: Art Spiegelman’s ‘MetaMaus’
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Twenty-five years ago, Art Spiegelman’s ‘Maus’ was published, opening a window into the depth and seriousness that comics as a form could tell. A chronicle of World War II in which the Jews are mice and the Nazis are cats, Spiegelman and his father, a Holocaust survivor, both figure in the text. After the conclusion, ‘Maus II,’ came out five years later, Spiegelman was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize.
But that was not the end of ‘Maus,’ which has been repackaged as a box set and as a single book. Now, publishing Tuesday, is ‘MetaMaus,’ a stunning hardcover book from Spiegelman about the making of ‘Maus,’ which includes a multimedia DVD. Spiegelman introduces ‘MetaMaus’ in the video above; keep an eye out for our review of the book, coming soon.
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-- Carolyn Kellogg
