Acclaimed as the most affective and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust (Wall Street Journal) and the first masterpiece in comic book history (New Yorker), Maus is the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitlers Europe, and his son, a cartoonist, coming to terms with his fathers story. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. An astonishing retelling of the twentieth-centurys grisliest news, Maus studies the bloody paw-prints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us.