Maus

                Maus is a vast tale of World War 2, history, and deep characters. Spiegelman’s art style and choice of using animals to portray the likes of people makes the whole thing a little easy to swallow down despite the subject matter. Telling the story of one mouse’s adventures to his son makes the reader enjoy his character more. He seems realistic, believable and genuine. Showing this mouse as an honest individual when it came to women, friends, and his son. Alongside with Grave of the Fireflies that also tells a story of two sibling trying to make it through Hiroshima after losing their parents to a bomb. A big difference is that they are children and taken from a child’s perspective while Maus goes into detail because the narrator is older and fully understood what was going on.

                Maus talks about friends and sacrifice to stay alive in a harsh world. As we go through the story the style gets a bit more grim, but with more detail. Although the mice have a very simplistic look they clear all look different with features such as wrinkles and body types. There are evidently different animals such as cats being their enemy, Nazis, and a pig shown being a doctor. The comic inside the comic was an interesting touch more interesting that it showed actual humans.