Metamaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus [With CDROM]

***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 mice? 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a digitized reference copy of The Complete Maus linked to a deep archive of audio interviews with his survivor father, historical documents, and a wealth of Spiegelman's private notebooks and sketches.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.

Author: Art Spiegelman
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 10/04/2011
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.06lbs
Size: 9.36h x 6.62w x 1.25d
ISBN: 9780375423949

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7
Point Value: 17
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 150031 / Metamaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus


Award: National Jewish Book Award - Winner
Award: Will Eisner Comic Industry Award - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/01/2011 pg. 82
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2011 pg. 82
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2011
Booklist 10/15/2011 pg. 35
Publishers Weekly 10/31/2011
Shelf Awareness 10/04/2011
Library Journal 11/15/2011 pg. 60
New York Times Book Review 12/04/2011 pg. 53

About the Author
ART SPIEGELMAN is one of the world's most admired and beloved comic artists, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust narrative, Maus. Born in Stockholm in 1948, Spiegelman began studying cartooning in high school and drawing professionally at age sixteen. He studied art and philosophy at Harpur College before joining the underground comics movement in the 1960s. Spiegelman taught history and the aesthetics of comics at the School of Visual Arts in New York from 1979 to 1986, and in 1980 he founded RAW, the acclaimed avant-garde comics magazine, with his wife, Françoise Mouly. Honors Spiegelman has received include induction into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame and the Art Director's Club Hall of Fame. In 2005, he was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People. He was made an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2007, and in 2011 he was awarded the Grand Prix at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. In 2015, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2018 he became the first comic artist to receive the Edward MacDowell Medal. His art has been exhibited at museums throughout the world, including the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Jewish Museum in New York City, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.