Book· 1980· Historical
Maus: 2 recorded works trace back to it, and it draws on 1 recorded source.
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Satrapi has said reading Maus is what showed her that comics could carry this, and that she decided to tell her own story after it. The inheritance is specific: black and white with no tonal shading, a child's eye on a catastrophe, and a frame in which the author as an adult is questioning the past rather than reporting it. Spiegelman drew the Shoah through a son interviewing his father; Satrapi drew the Iranian revolution through a girl and her grandmother.
Marjane Satrapi has said that reading Art Spiegelman's Maus showed her a comic could tell a family's history and a political catastrophe, and led her to tell her own story the same way, in stark black and white.
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Real world
Art Spiegelman recorded his father Vladek's account of surviving Auschwitz and drew it with Jews as mice, alongside his own difficult relationship with his father as they made the book.