Maus: Art Spiegelman

I have to say i liked Maus, i really liked the illustrations to how it was more of a novel than a comic.  Also, i sometimes got a bit lost because it would jump back a bit and then back up to where it was, it was just jumpy, so i had to re-read it sometimes to get it.  I felt as though it was real affective on me because an idea such as him and his father going through the changed life of being Jewish was very real to me.  I liked how they played with the idea of how cats "hunt" for mice in real life, so in the story the mice were the Jewish people and the cats were the Germans; making it seem there is definitely an upper hand or authority.  If this comic was with people instead of animals i feel like this would have maybe gotten lost, but with the animals we can connect with it and somehow make it "fun" in our minds where we would be more interested.  Maybe they chose to do animals because it gets away from the gruesome pictures of just having dead bodies, and with the mice it makes it not as horrible to read.  I have to say overall, i am very pleased that i read this, it is just a great illustrated comic that tells a story about people that went through one of the worst historic events.