Colourful tales of Mr Wonderful and Maus
PUBLISHED in 2004, In The Shadow Of No Towers was New York cartoonist and comic book writer Art Spiegelman’s nuanced response to the attacks on the World Trade Center and its aftermath. It would not be too much of a stretch to suggest that In The Shadow Of Maus would be an apt epithet for Spiegelman’s life. Maus told Spiegelman’s family history against the background of the Holocaust. A groundbreaking and innovative work, the book took the 1992 Pulitzer Prize.
To mark the 25th anniversary of its publication, Viking published MetaMaus, a book plus DVD compendium of everything you ever needed to know about Art Spiegelman and the Maus universe, featuring family interviews, transcripts of Spiegelman’s interviews with his father Vladek, and even rejection letters.
