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Art Spiegelman's, Maus, has some very memorable cover art. It pictures a pair of mice — representing Jews — huddling beneath a cat-like caricature of Adolf Hitler. Html projects for students free download with source code.
Behind the feline Hitler is a large swastika. That last element has become a problem for Maus this spring. For Russian observances of Victory Day, the holiday commemorating the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany, Moscow has purged itself of swastikas. In an effort to comply, Russian bookstores cleared copies of Maus from their shelves. Cartoonist Art Spiegelman attends the French Institute Alliance Francaise's 'After Charlie: What's Next for Art, Satire and Censorship' at Florence Gould Hall on Feb.
19 in New York City. Mark Sagliocco/Getty Images The 1980 graphic novel is the very antithesis of Nazi propaganda — it tells the story of Spiegelman's father, a Holocaust survivor, by depicting Nazis as cats and Jews as mice — but Spiegelman tells NPR's Robert Siegel that criticism of the book's cover is not new. He says the purge of the book from Russian bookstores is 'rather well-intentioned stupidity on many levels.'
Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Maus: A Survivor's Tale Subtitle My Father Bleeds History Author Art Spiegelman Your purchase helps support NPR programming. So this is now extended to include: 'You know, you want to put a swastika on a book? You really shouldn't do that on the cover, ever, because you might get nailed.' And well beyond that, 'be very careful if you're writing about anything else we decide is the red line this week.' So this is a way in which I fear that Maus has been instrumentalized to ends I don't approve of. On previous objections to the cover The first time this reared its head was way back when Maus was not a known entity and the word 'graphic novel' would never pass my, or your, or anyone's lips. When Maus was offered to a German publisher, the head of Rowohlt publishing said, 'We have a problem — it's against the law to show swastikas on the covers of books in Germany.'
I said, 'Well, we've got a problem, what are we going to do?' He said, 'I'm not sure, I'll get back to you.' He then found a loophole that says for works of serious scholarly import, it's possible to do it — and convinced the government to make an exception for Maus. The amazing thing is he then went on to become the minister of culture under Gerhard, left his publishing post — but he obviously had the diplomatic skills that the job might have called for. On the importance of the cover art The whole point of what we're calling 'graphic novels' is the melding of visual and verbal information — to sound professorial for a second — and part of that information starts with the first thing you see. It's why when, when Pantheon didn't want to give me the right to do the cover — back in 1986 when the first volume was published by them, and there was no such thing as a graphic novel that anybody'd heard of — I was sputtering.
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Like, how could they do that, if the cover's part of the book, of course? And then my friend up at Pantheon, Louise Fili — — said 'shut-up and don't worry about it, you'll do the cover, it goes through me.' I got a separate paycheck on top of the relatively small advance — and when the second book came out, they insisted that I do the cover, so I don't get any extra money.
About MetaMaus.NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER.Visually and emotionally rich, MetaMaus is as groundbreaking as the masterpiece whose creation it reveals.In the pages of MetaMaus, Art Spiegelman re-enters the Pulitzer prize–winning Maus, the modern classic that has altered how we see literature, comics, and the Holocaust ever since it was first published twenty-five years ago.He probes the questions that Maus most often evokes—Why the Holocaust? Why comics?—and gives us a new and essential work about the creative process.MetaMaus includes a bonus DVD-R that provides a digitized reference copy of The Complete Maus linked to a deep archive of audio interviews with his survivor father, historical documents, and a wealth of Spiegelman’s private notebooks and sketches.Compelling and intimate, MetaMaus is poised to become a classic in its own right. Praise“Richly rewardingThe book also serves as a master class on the making and reading of comicsThe last frame encapsulates in one single moment the artfulness behind the tale we’ve just read, and the uneasy combination of filial pride and anger that flowed through Maus and flows through Metamaus as well.” – The New York Times Book Review“Why the Holocaust? Spiegelman answers intelligently, articulately, and with a high degree of psychological and aesthetic penetration.” – Booklist, starred review“As a floor plan for endless exploration, it is the Haus That “Maus” BuiltPick any page and gaze. Author EssayAn update regarding the MetaMaus DVD:There have been several customer reports of glitches with the DVD accompanying MetaMaus. While our internal testing has shown no problems with the DVD, we are now conducting an outside review of the product with an independent quality control firm. If you encounter any problems with the DVD, please let us know and we will send out a replacement DVD immediately.
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