I read mostly Marvel and a couple DC titles. Regretfully I haven't much explored the realm of independant titles for mostly one reason. I can't find a shop around me, within a reasonable distance, that carries them. The one shop that I rely upon for my regular stuff has been losing money on comics, so now you have to be on a special list and they hold specific comics for you monthly. Jesus Christ monkey balls.
He has his own delusions of the comic world I guess.
But I with Magee here, People can read what ever they want. There are many people against Harry Potter, Which I think is a very cool book, But if there is something I dont like, I wont go out of my way to stop people from reading it. Its there money and they do what they want.
Maus : A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman.
There are many reasons why MAUS should be on your reading list. It's important because of the issues it addresses, because it is widely available (you might even find it in your library) and generally well respected so you don’t have to take just my word for it: It won the Pulitzer prize. Let me just stress that - this is a comic book which won a Pulitzer. (the oscars of literature.)
However I'm suggesting you give it a shot because it's a damn fine story expertly told and if you ever considered yourself a "comics fan" then MAUS is our War & Peace. It's the thing we can be most proud of. You can read it in public and if anyone gives you shit then you can whimper "it won the Pulitzer" while they kick your ass and steal your lunch money.
Set in both the "present day" and flashing back to WWII MAUS concerns itself with the relationship between a boy and his father (present) and the fathers reminiscences about his treatment at the hands of the Nazi's (WWII) As absorbing as the biographical relationship between author and father is - it's the harrowing story of being a Polish Jew under the Nazi's that sets this work apart. If you are never going to get round to reading Primo Levy then Maus is a way of leaning a little about the personal cost of the Holocaust.
Spiegelman's use of anthropomorphic characters is very simplistic. (Jews are mice, Nazis are cats.) This "trick" has many functions in the story - it allows Spiegelman to pare down the appearance of the characters to a base shape simplicity - and as such the near blank faces become everyman. It also serves as it did in Orwell's animal farm to allow us breathing distance from the narrative - and so freed from the constraint of identifying too strongly and withdrawing when the tale gets dark: we can afford to draw closer and bear witness to the horror.
Maus is far from a simple comic - but it's not hard to understand and it's very accessible. It's complexity lies in it's subject matter and the raw heartache of knowing that the tale is based on Spiegelman's fathers own experiences. It's a horrific, honest and deeply moving work that anyone who reads comics should be proud to own.
Not bad, but I already read that a long time ago. "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi is much more moving than Maus.
Don't get me wrong, Maus is great, and I recommend it to everybody, but you picked something that's quite old. But of course, that doesn't make it any less great (notice I use the word great, not the word brilliant).
Originally posted by Mane
mmm, no thanks. that looks queerer than you, Zero...
Let me clear something up (for everyone) - this isnt a thread where Im going to get into a conversation justifying what i pitch up for public consideration. This isnt somewhere I'm going to be paying any attention to anything other than my favourite sound - IE that of my own sweet voice.
Feel free to use it as a platform to look like seven shades of butthole if thats what you want tho dude - I'm getting paid $40 an hour to sit back and watch: have a ball - knock yourself out.
Originally posted by who?-kid
Not bad, but I already read that a long time ago. "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi is much more moving than Maus.
You know I'm embarrassed to say that despite looking at Persepolis several times i've yet to buy it. I will rectify that next week and let you know what i think, thanks for the tip.
are you f*cking teaching an english class you arrogant prick?
and what's this about being paid?
and furthermore, who the f*ck gives you the right to look down your nose at other people who you don't even know through baseless stereotypical assumptions (which many of us don't fit in the least I might add).