One of my all time favorite comics is Maus(my review). Art Spiegelman recreated his father’s life in simple pictures and evocative words. The book was about the Holocaust, but, in reality, it was about so much more. So, it was with great trepidation that I approached Metamaus. Years before, Spiegelman had given access to all his notes and material he used to create Maus to Hillary Chute. That is really the beginning of Metamaus. But what is Metamaus?

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Art Spiegelman is an American comic book artist with European sensibilities. His style and content are probably as far as you can get from Superheros. He (and his wife Françoise Mouly) started a comix magazine called Raw, which focused on alternative comic stories by non-mainstream artists. Spiegelman’s contribution to Raw was an autobiographical story which he titled Maus. The story was eventually collected into two volumes and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. So, what exactly is Maus?

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