Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

Jacket Description/Flap:
MAUS was the first half of the tale of survival of the author's parents, charting their desperate progress from prewar Poland Auschwitz. Here is the continuation, in which the father survives the camp and is at last reunited with his wife.

Brief Description:
"Chapters one through four were originally published in somewhat different form in Raw magazine between 1986 and 1991"--T.p. verso.

Marc Notes:
Chapters one through four were originally published in somewhat different form in Raw magazine between 1986 and 1991--T.p. verso.;Color map on p. [4] of cover.;An autobiographical and biographical cartoon in which the author explores his strained relationship with his father, an Auschwitz survivor, while also relating the story of his parent's experiences as Jews in wartime Poland, as told to him by his dad during a series of conversations they had years later in New York and Vermont.;012 and up.;Pulitzer Prize, 1992.

Biographical Note:
ART SPIEGELMAN is one of the world's most admired and beloved comic artists, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust narrative, Maus. Born in Stockholm in 1948, Spiegelman began studying cartooning in high school and drawing professionally at age sixteen. He studied art and philosophy at Harpur College before joining the underground comics movement in the 1960s. Spiegelman taught history and the aesthetics of comics at the School of Visual Arts in New York from 1979 to 1986, and in 1980 he founded RAW, the acclaimed avant-garde comics magazine, with his wife, Françoise Mouly. Honors Spiegelman has received include induction into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame and the Art Director's Club Hall of Fame. In 2005, he was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. He was made an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2007, and in 2011 he was awarded the Grand Prix at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. In 2015, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2018 he became the first comic artist to receive the Edward MacDowell Medal. His art has been exhibited at museums throughout the world, including the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Jewish Museum in New York City, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

Review Quotes:
"The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust."
--The Wall Street Journal

Review Citations:

• Booklist 01/01/2001 pg. 979 (EAN 9780679729778, Paperback)
• Publishers Weekly 09/07/1992 (EAN 9780679729778, Paperback)