Vladek’s wife, Anja — is filtered through cartoonist’s narrative and visual account. He portrays the Holocaust as a conflict between cats, mice, and pigs where Jews
This book analyses the portrayals of the Holocaust in newspaper cartoons, educational pamphlets, short stories and graphic novels. Focusing on recognised and lesser-known illustrators from Europe and beyond, the volume looks at autobiographical and fictional accounts and seeks to paint a broader ...
There was once a stigma against graphic novels, with critics dismissing them as little more than glorified comic books. But these works can cover serious, intelligent topics. When cartoonist Art Spiegelman received a Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for Maus, his graphic memoir about the Holocaust, he brou...
As Vladek tells his son about growing up in Poland and meeting his wife Anja, Art learns things about his parents he never knew, and I learned things about the Holocaust that the bubbies and zaydies of my youth neglected to tell me. Read the rest of this entry » Tags: biography, g...
novel about the Holocaust; Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ political deconstruction of the superhero genre; and The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller’s social commentary on media and politics in the Reagan era (with Batman and Superman as allegorical touchstones). The late ninetie...
When novels burst onto the literary scene in the 18th century with Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, they presented something truly new: the idea that a common
Why are graphic novels good ways to deal with complicated historical, cultural, and political subjects? This isn’t quite a graphic novel, though we were definitely influenced by the graphic novel look. We did want to create a book that used visuals in a predominant way, in an effort to ...
the story, as times change, Martin and his family’s experience in Brooklyn is not so pleasant. But that’s ultimately the background of the story Lemelman tells. His real focus is the dynamic story of his parents and how their life experiences in the Holocaust shaped them, and of ...
masterpiece,Maus, was first published in 1980. It tells the story of the experience of Jews in the Holocaust through the fictionalized biography of his father, but with the people represented by anthropomorphic animals. It was the first ever graphic novel to winner the Pulitzer, a major ...
Becky Greenhow:I’ve had similar experiences as Beth, with parental concerns about easy reading vs real reading. When I know a student well, I can make recommendations towards more novels, or more non-fiction, or more current events. But if a child is a reluctant reader and gets joy from...