129Huw? Maca? yf) OUT TM WERE You NO. SNK CRYING t I pon't KNOW. TELL You, Vy at OMY WITS! END! ‘by YOUR FATHER! HE TREATS ME Ag FL WERE JUST A MAID < 3 Sw oe HE ONLY GIVES ME $50% A MONTH. WHEN I NEED A PAIR OF STOCKINGS V HAVE TO USE MY OWN SAVINGS! [WHEN I TRY TO ARGUE WiH HIM YY HE MOANS LIKE HE's GOING TO HAVE ANOTHER, HEART ATTACK. CANT BE SURE IF HE'S 0 \HAVE.To $T0P! LEAST A MAID HAS Some ) DONS OFF AND GETS PAID! WHENENER | NEEDED SCHOOL SUPPLIES OR NEW CLOTHES MOM WOULD HAVE TO PLEAD AND ARGUE FOR WEEKS BE- FORE HE'D COUGH UP ANY DOUGH! \ FEEL LIKE Im GOING To BURST!fim GONNA GETY Ni SOME JUICE. P WANT S0ME? (TWAS AYEAR ANP AHALE AFTER ANIA DIED, HE TOOK ME 10 HER CLOSET, AND SAID: "ALL THESE ARE FOR You!" =“ 1 SA\D | WOULDN'T TOUCH HER Hines! i SWEAR, SOMETIMES 1 THINK HE MARRIED ME BECAUSE I'M THE SAME SIZE AS ANJA! HE'S ALWAYS BEEN -VH- PRAGMATIC. {UEP TO THINK \3 e MADE HIM THAT WN UR FRIENDS WENT THROUGH CAMPS, NOBODY 15 LIKE HIM! zE | (IT'S SOMETHING THAT WORRIES Me 4 In oe WANS HES JUST LIKE THE RACIST AGOUT THe BOOK I'M DOING ABOUT HI cA NCATURE OF THE MISERLY OLD JEW. 2) HAH! You 7 CAN SA a z THAT Rehwn! = Uy Z,= UMEAN, iM JUST TRYING } EVEN FOR, To PORTRAY MY anne) sien 2 HE ¢ WON'T SPEND ANY MONEY... HE HAS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OFPOLLARS INTHE BANK, AND HE Lives LIKE A PAUPER! « \ WISH 1 GOT MOMS STORY UME SHES WAS ALWE. SHE WAS MORE SENSITIVE... ar | UC LOOK! HE GRABS PAPER TOWELS FROM REST ROOMS $0 HE WON'T HAVE To. BUY NAPKING OR TISSUES? G Hy H A ry l w+) JUST DON'T KNOW HOW SHE COULD STAND LIVING WITH Hi \DIDN'T KNOW YOU ARE UPSTAIRS HERE. ‘Tr Ty IVE ALREADY STARTED To TWAS INATERING DOWNSTAIRS THE GARDEN. ps SKETCH OUT SOME PARTS J Pa nae panuere } a ol ABOUT MN BOOK... v“SEE, HERE ARE THE BLACK MARKET ] Ws THEY HANGED IN SOSNOWIEC.. AND HERES Es YOU, SAYING: | YES. "DO STILL iv THEM, 5, gid CES MAKES. Pa R cs oN 'Y Yan. somenay You Vi HUNT “FAMOUS LII BE FAMOUS, Like ve, wee Bey vs WHAT'S“H1$-NAME? WHAT'S: wes ‘NAME? +10 GET A PENCIL Just GOTTA waite WS 1 earn DOWN , 1] BEFORE | FORGET IT!COME: WE'LL ALL oF US GO To THE GARDEN-Nov'tL SEE IHEP. SHE SEES MORE OFTEN THE HAIRDRESSER THAN SHE SEES ME | a AGAIN TOE HAR ME ) DRESSER? ONLY A < AWEEK Reo You WENT? You SEE HOw IT 1S? ANYTIME | WANT To GD OUT FOR A FEW MINUTES HE TRIES To MAKE ME FEEL GUILTY! Vien SUPPOSED T0.Be AT Hs ¥ CONSTANT BECK ANP CALL WAAT | SAID THAT'S 50 TERRIBLE 7 RELEVE ME, You") HAVE MORE RES AIR FROM THE GARDEN TH! FROM A. HUNDRED HihiRDRESSE! YOU See Wow SHE 15? Y WHAT HAVE TO 0 | IF 1 SPX ONLY ONE WORD To HER, = TIGHT AWAN AN ARGUMENT! SHE SPN5 SHE WANTS To LEAVE Me! A TELL TO HER" 907 Ana gaan h EMBER, IT'S ONIN O1 Pe bathe Ov, Soy cant COME BACK!- — (MANBE YousHOULD ACH! I PON'T WANT “To ALAWYER | TALKED, YEARS Ao: BOTH SEE A MAR: [THAT A STRANGER. AND RicitT AWAY He WARNED TO WYLADEK- WATCH OUT. 1 SEE res TARP alontPN 1S MONEY-Conge ous!" AND ONCE MALA AND | SPT WITH AUNT HELEN To HELP AGREE VS Pans NEW WILL». BUT A MONTH LWT ED AGAIN 10 oe 1, TALK. ReouT He 0 Ger ava BETTER. {TWAS STILL DARK is as DFTER, 74. 4 oursine. eek ¥, You LEFT ‘SRODULA?,WE CAME To HER HOUSE NEAR TOWN... OFEN UF, JANINA! QUICK! 7 y in RICHIEU'S GOVERNESS ALWAYS ff OFFERED SHE WOULD HELP US. 4 CZPREZ TE PREIC ZEEE LIED MX GOD! IT's THE SPIEGELMANS ! YI A YD Milled SS ES we ey, AADNBE WE SHOULD TRY MY FATHER’S WAKE UP MR. LUKOWSKI 4 OLD HOUSE. THE SANTOR HAS KNOWN | [LETUSIN.PLEASE!! OVR FAMILY FOR YEARS. 20! in TRY, WENVE GOT10 GET 1 STREETS BEFORE Davin: } ) S Way A LITTLE SAFE. \ HAD A COAT AND BOOTS, $0 LiKE A GESTAPO WORE. WHEN HE WAS NOT IN SERVICE. BUT ANJA -HER, APPEARANCE NOV COULD SEE MORE EASY SHE WAS JEWISH. | WAS AFRAID FOR HER.INHEBREW HE SAID “To ME, "OUR NATION?” Siow. AEN be HAD, = anne ORNO? HE. I'm JEWISH 100! ee AND UHAVE BEEN TM a-amcua. / THERE. ARE VERY SN ORR ae \ tHovener woo VMI [th Fem oF 0 LEFT. : WeRE hood. Sl | fT 3 “rl i ol ag a $01 LEFT HIM AND WENT RIGHT AWAY TO DEKERTA . THERE IT WAS A BIG COURTYAL VM WITH MK WEE “00. WE'RE HUNGRY Ri IND WE NEED A Go To THe BLACK PLACE To MipE! MARKET ON DE- | KERTA STREET, NUMBER @. fe ALL ARDUND | LOOKED, au BUT IT WAS NOBODY. WANNA Bw SOME FOOD. Tl x WITHOUT COUPONS, migTeR? SHE SHOWED-To ME SAUSAGES, \ BOUGHT AND Went EGGS, CHEESE THINGS | ONLY ANA, WAS ABLE -To DREAM RBOUT. femur 1381 ND To Get Breakrast!... | [it's A MIRACLE! tow WANT SOME SAUSAGES 7 Pip YOU MANAGE IT? OR £6657..0R WOULD 4 b Nov PREFER CHocoATe? THIS TIME IT WAS MORE PEDPLE ... HERE EVEN, | SAW SOME YEWISH BONS | KNEW FROM BEFORE THE WAR» oe event 1 HARDLY RECOGNIZED You. r> 2 $0 MOv'RE STILL ALIVE, EX? 1 teen Basin BACK TD. A. THERE | cap Ear JEWELRY FOI MARKS=—Np MARS Fon FOOR, OR A PLACE To STAY. =] Se HAS A SMALL FARM ON TME OUTSKIRTS OF Town. THERE, \ DONT KNOW trie Nou MUST SAN-TAAT THE BARN DooR y WAS OPEN AND You JUST yi a IN, J You AND YOUR, WIFE CAN STAY MY BARN. Ei WORF WE GETRAY YOU!\7's ALmosr DAWN-WHEN MRS KAWKA' [DON'T LEAVE ME Comes To MILK HER Cow, SHE'LL )] ALONE AGAIN. BRING You Some COFFEE. pf | IM TERRIFIED - Wy A yy 1gy) Sig 9 $0 WE CAME 1 va AND 50 1 fh Ks OW re My # fi oath DON'T WORRYANIA-SLE BE SAFE. AF UDIDN'T GO OUT WE WOULDN'T HAVE. |FOOD-.WE WOVLDN'T HAVE THIS PLACE). i Yi v . Wig XG X \-"'ut BE OKAY, Come BACK QUICK. J ar 4 bg NM $0: | 1F POSSIBLE ... SSAA =~ ITRANELED OFTEN Wirt} THE STREETCAR TO TOWN- ae, 4 =WVIIi8 ee (i IT WAS TWO CARS. ONE WAS ONLY GERMANS AND If earemrorrre | ~ M IWS LS SIRS fe: NS THE GERMANS PAID NO PTTENTION OF ME. INTHE Po- GUSH CAR THEN COULP? SMELL IF A Polis JEW CAME IN. 140AT THE GLACK MARKET \ SAW SEVERAL TIMES A NICE HOW ABOUTA LOAF. WOMAN, WHAT! MADE A LITTLE FRIENDS WITH HER... | OF FRESH GooD MoRAING, i MR. SPIEGELMAN . How) PO You DO, MRS. MoTo! PO YoU WAVE IN YOUR BASKET “TODAY? ¢ we WORKS in) GERMANY, AND |} ( 1 SOUNDS Goopp mE, BUT X COMES Iv'g OVER 20 KILOMETERS To {p 5 4 / Your HOUSE In Sz0RIENICE. PLL KEEP You WIDDEN INTHE | | My WIFE WILL BE AFRAID Go, if se! FS cy AEM WITH MotoNown [Bd i WAS MX WIFE. 7 ano ANIA, LIKE 2 GOVERNESS, WENT WITH THE A Or) BSA LITTLE BOY GORIND, AND NoBopy EVEN LOOK on US. | WALKED AS IF SHE 141WE HAD HERE A LITTLE COMFORTABLE..WE HAD WHERE W ST, REMEMBER, LITTLE ONE-NENER TELL ANYBODY THERE ARE JEWS HERE .THE'LL SMDOT US ALL! (on PAY NoutHe REST TOMORREW>, AETOR 1 G0 OUT ANP CASH SOME VALUABLES, BOT, ONE Time IMSsEDA FEW COINS To THE BREAD... ae B77) 6) —— Tal) IN WN SCHOOL THE BAWAS AND SOON HE CAME OUT VERY BAD IN GERMAN, $0 ANIA TUTORED To Him, Wind VERY GOOD GRAVES, MY TEACHER ASKED ME HOW LIMPROVED 50 MucH... IHAT YOU THINK? '¥ MEONE WALL. RISK AMEIR LIFE FoR NOTHING? MY Mi Hi ‘YOU HAD To PAY MRS. MoTO~ NOWA TO KEEP You, RIGHT? (ELPING ME.OUT Iv WAS A FEW THINGS HERE Not 50 Goop... HER WAG VERN SMALL AND IT WAS ON THE GROUND FLOOR w+ QUT LHAD Some- FING ALLERGIC WA THE: CLOSET. STILL) EVERNTHING HERE Was FINE, UNTIL THEY MAY COME SEARCH HERE ANY ONE SRTURDAY MOTONOWA RAN VERY EARLY | MINUTE! You've GOT To LEAVE BACK FROM HER BLACK MARKET WORK: THE GESTAPO 3ST SEARCHED 0)WE'LL WALK TOWARD 505 \, ( stny CALM-WALK AS IF WE'RE JUST STROLLING» AND SPEAK GERMAN, BUT IF WE TURNED A Co: R- OF COURSE WAS RIGHT—THEY NER, THEY ALGO TURNET, DIDNT MEAN ANYTHING ON UD. a HERE WASA FouNDaTios mape —PAPETTER catncouns cage) veneerinonnne cts. HHI MAYBE WE CAN HIDE IN ap te Hy THAT CONSTRUCTION SITE. Wneee Wad yy Nw ated A LAA ey y On LAM} tt BND HERE WE WAITED A. (CoLp FEL) HOURS FoR THE DAY. 1 UMPED FIRST IN, AD PULLED OVER BRICKS For ANA To STEP Dow 144COME. WE WON'T BE IM F0TRED | NOTICED tf WE MIX INAND COLD. W/Z WHY, MRS. SPIEGELMAN, Youre SHIVERING! YOU CAN COME INTO MY HOUSE FoR AN HOUR OR $0, TIL You WARM VP, : 4 SHE Took ANIA INSIDE AND BROUGHT To ME SOME FOOD--IN-THOSE DAYS | WAS $0 STRONG \ COULD S1T EVEN INTHE SNOW ALL NIGHT. Wan itor Youn, L 5 IN, SD GINE ANYTH! MAN GEC OUT OF POUND | RD AS son 145SHE TOLD ME THESE TWO Y‘IdoN'T GET iT... | (NO. FORA LONGER TIME It WAS BETTER, ACQUAINTANCES VisrTeD | WASN'T HUNCARY OFTEN TO HER ot THURS. J AS DANGEROUS THEN, NEARTHE VERY FINISH OF THE DDN EVENINGS... TODAY AS POLAND? "UT ALSO To AUSCAWITZ... WAY MANBE A MONDAY...) LWIR5 THERE, AND | SAW \T. SINDS~ HUNDREDS OF THO r= FU THOUSANDS OF JEWS FROM HUNGARY. PRAISE MARY. You'RE SAFE! LCOVLON'T SLEEP,1 FELT 4 $0 GUILTY ABOUT CHASING ‘You AND YOUR WIFE OUT. ta a 1 SS THE GESTAPO NEVER EVEN Vi] | ANIA WAS GLAD CAME TO MY HOUSE. | JUST OF GOING BACK. | PANICKED FOR, NOTHING. BND MOTONOWR ALG0.- ALWAYS 1 PA\D HER NICELY. AND THAT SAME NIGHT WE SM) GOOVPYE TO KAWKA AND WENT AGAIN To SZORIENICE..AFTER WE WERE BACK ONLY A SHORT TIME. WELL, MY HUSBAND WRITES “THAT He's COMING HOME FOR Wis IO-DAY VACATION, Me STEAL E “k byt If HE KNEW YoU WERE HERE HE'D “THROW US ALL OUT. BAT, DON'T WORRM... | “a ig ft ‘ i “THE DANS WE WERE AFRAID To BREATHE. \ ay i PL FEArE the DOU OFTEN To THEIR LOCKERS, KU NIGHT WE COULD MOVE AROUND A iy BUT UT URS SOMMETINE ELSE: BOON TER THAHERE ARE RATS DOWN HERE! ay Vi p ] ia 5 wy THOSE AREN'T RATS. THEY'RE VERY y OF COURSE, AS BERL SMALL. ONE RAN OVER MN HAND RATS. Ser AA BEFORE. THEY'RE JUST MICE! ips} f To FEEL MoRE EASY. cn rBUT.THEN, MOTONOWR STOPPED To COME DOWN. ALSO, HERE WE WAD Ito PLACE WHERE “To WAsta, W'S BEEN TONG SINCE T HEREAVE ANY 50 ANJA GoT OW ALLHER SiN A TERRIBLE RAK. SE BROUGHT ANY FOOD. | OTHER CANDY---4 1 DON'T KNOW WHRT’S WORSE- . WZ “THE HUNGER OR THE ITCHING. LY f Uy Ny i] @ 4 ta, VHD STILL CANDIES | ORGANIZED On DEKERTA. ONIN THIS WE HAD“ EAT, \ 2% VM SORRY | COULDN'T GET HE ASKED WHY | GO TO-THE CELLAR, $0 OFTEN - J DOWN BEFORE-MY HUSBAND HE EVEN ASKED 1F | WAS RIDING JEINS HERE ! 15 GETING SusTeIeUs. J HE WAS JOKING BUT STILL Ly i : MN ARE YOU ALLY THERE ARE RATS, GIANT. RIGHT HERE?) RATS!THEYRE HORRIBLE! BND SHE WA RIGHT. We WERE HAPPY EVEN To WAVE THESE CONDITIONS. SN BUT | DIDN'T FEEL SAFE HERE. IT WAS TOO MANY WAYS SoME~ WB BODY COULD FINP US OUT. 1 WANT90, WHEN VT CAME THURSDAY, | TotaKe n SIREE TON To EE Eee THE MOTHERS ALUN ‘ToL $0: "BE fa Fu! § 437 a | QUICK, THE MOTHERS CAME: YY Out ADE 70 SEE WHAT WAS! FLA AF VT BE AFRAID, LITTLE ONES. | (im NOT A Jew. | Wort HURT You. dl, 7 \ Yl [ iy SS al gal ETNWHEN I ARRIVED To KALIKA, THE TWO SMUGGLERS WERE THERE TOGETHER, SITTING INTHE KITCHEN. PLEASE WAIT IN-THE OTHER RODM. THEY'LL SEE YOU SOON. K ASR Ria ~e Elen BEFORE: aR une WCE Span Bb HEE PNS PASTRIES THERE. BACK WHEN TWAS THE GHETTO, ABRAHAM oe ener WAS A BiG MEMBER OF THE JEWISH COUNCIL. WERE TRYING To “Y -TO HUNGARY?! GET OUT OF PoLAND— ) YES. RSA AND 1 RTNERS, ane rr ASULL-TAKE You THROU: Re pra a j ee WHEW 11's RISKY 7 Zo Verr esotsve je! WI Tara OH HERR MccH 19€ | YECH GEIL KOEM a) ih THE OTHERS WANT To THINK ZE\, AZ BLLES VET ZEIN BESEDER YECH ABOUT IT A Le ea! NIL SCHREBEN T5E Fees lz H Listen! « ew aos G an 5 eee Ii weit pack to yous Hl] 1 nance) With MANDELERUM TO MEET Again Cuma — HERE. iF IT CAME A Goop LETTER, we'll Go,BUT IF EVER TALKED OF THIS PLAN TO AMAA. DOE oe a ‘i WE'RE SAFE HERE- NGEROVS/, ie y: FORGET oor Is. ie 6 HUNGARY! WHAT IF RER HUSBAND FINDS OUT ABOUT v5? ENEN THE BOX COULD LET SOMETHING SLIP! sscTANS WAR COULD LAST ANOTHER Ut oR S NEARS. WHAT DO WE PO WHEN OUR MONEY RUNS OUT? IN HUNGARY WE COULD BE FREE To WALK IHE STREETS GRIN, LIKE. TAUMAN BEINGS. I'VE ALWANS: TAKEN CARE. OF YOU- TRUST ME+ Q pon vo it, a8. SRECELNNN 15 YP wwst NoT SAFE! You Don'T KNo! DAY THING ABOUT THESE SHNGGLERS. a es efi YT Vist MY COUSIN AND SEE WHERE HE'S HIDING. IF WE 4 Go70 Wi W ‘ABOUT STPM WITH ME! SereR OFF en Wo You, NOW, 1F HE NEEDED, | COULD HELP HIM:AVIERT -@ THE JANITOR ON TROLLEY THE APNITOR INTHE HOUSE MILOCH OWNED, SHE WID NOW HIM AND HIS FAMILY; BUT ~OH BDY- HE WAS In. SiTUA: TION WORSE AG | COULD IMAGINE! THAVE Some COMPANY dal VRSTAIRS: \ CANT TAKE You To MILocH UNITIL-THEY LENE WE'RE ALMosT OUTOF VODKA. BRING SOME MORE, MEINKA. =A Mme 5° WE TALKED, AND THEY =n BELIEVED \ AM HER cousin AF YOU DON'T PUT ANOTHER BOTTLE ON THE y HER YORU, TABLE RIGHT AWAY, We'L TELL THE GESTR- PO ABOUT THE JEWS You'Re KEEPING! ee Me l “MN (a i rs) | ely HERE'S A FEW MARKS, mEInICR. RON POUINSTAIAS PotD GET ANOTHER BOTTLE FOR OUR FRIENDS. Yifiq [You see? Your cousin knows: Se | Hout ENTERTAIN GUESTS! “TO NOUR, HEALTH. uit; J; 4. fl DRANK- IN IS Minutes SHE CAME WITHA |] WE DRANK AND WE | Borne WERE HAPPY. ONLY NEAR. MIPNIGHT en rial] NALLY THEN WERT HOME,LTHINK 11'5 SAFE 0 GO DOWN] THE CONDITIONS HOW MILOCH WAS LAVING-Nou COULDNT BELIEVE . ake) x he Mona Row cawvou Live THERE? INSIDE THIS GARBAGE HOLE WAS RERE SEPARATED TTF NOU Must BE FREEZING ! SPACE — MAYBE ONLY 5 FEET BY 6 FEET, [EY Veapex!' con Vag YOU'RE Sri. Auive! JEA y BA CEBS Vg ary OTT A SECOND, FB ber wirTMeRe ung Cine Miboe, WIFE ANO THEIR, BYEARS-OLD Boy, t1'g VERY LATE NOW - 1 MUST GET BACK HOME AND 1 WAS LUCY, NOBOD' MADE. ME ANY QUESTIONS: GOING BRCK To SZOPIENNCE.. TOLD HIM MX STORY WITH THESE POLES UPSTAIRS. Berea parrot merce He | EXPLAINED PLACE WAg NoT BUT BETTER THAN HIS, BM 153WAwWeRE 15 Yes Pron AHEAD 1 THE YouR PARTNER | hed WHD ahaa You Bt 2 VER. HELL DOIN US THE POR} 3 ON THE TRAIN-DONT WORRY! 10 You HAVE THE REST OF OUR PAYMENT? BL ] yi 4 WE TRAVELED LES$THAN AN HOURTIL WE CAME %b BIELSKO-BIALA. HERE Z < \ USED To HAVE MY FACTORY. AND HERE THE SMUGGLERS DISAPPEARED, a 5 7 LIE WE PASSED THE MARKET MERE ALLIBNS WE BOUGHT EAT, 1% RNY PRISED EVEN ME STREET WHERE WE USEP To Live, BY AND WE CAME TIL THE PRISON, AND THERE THEY PUTVHD A SMALL BAG TOTRAVEL. WITH A SRODN HE TOOK OUT, LIT WHEN THEY REGISTERED MEIN, TLE BY LITTLE, ALL THE POLI THEN LOOKED OVER EVERTTHING, WELL ,WELL..A GOLD WATCH, 7 See Potisae wpeeey You $05 ALWAYS HE Go ANGEL NEF IT WAS THIS WATCH 1 GOT FRom FATHERCIN-LAW WHEN FIRST | MARRIED TO AND, eee L NEVER, pony DAN, TE AND THREW ME ThaeLBaurn INTO A en VES.\'UL TELL You HOw \T WAS WITH RIM- BUT NOU IM. TELUNG HERE INTHE PRISON... Mant is YES. HE Fin HED THE SAME 95 5 TO SARE NY WEEK OFTHE PRISONERS ne Le List WA WERE WE GOT VERN LITTLE To EAT-MAYBE SOUP, ONE TIME A DAN-AND ME SAT WITTH NOTHING TODO, [Wey DONT TEX POT US 10 WORK LIKE THE REST oF feet JUST SENT ME A FOOD PARCEL. WRITE BACK THEY'LL SEND ANOTHER, BotWe Re ONLY ALLOWED To WRITE GERMAN YoU DID A GREAT JOBI TAKE AANTHING ¥ YoU WANT FoR You TT WAS EG65 THERE .AT WAS EVER CHG I KNEW TO ware , = sul WAS VERN LUCKY To GET SUCH Gooptes! PO) Freel SERA [a 2A 156‘A FEWDAYS LATER THE TRUCKS CAME. THEN PUSHED IN MAYBE [00 OF US. HERE, DARLING. (HAVE A PRESENT FoR Yov, WE. KNEW THE STORIES THAT THEY WL GAS US Rasp THREW IN THE OVENS. TIS WAS. eK THAR, AAD HERE WE WERE,AFTER ANJA DIED \ Hip To MAKE. CARIST! You save) YE%,11'5 K SHAME! FOR AN ORDER WITH EVERYTHING... F WORTHLESS THEN WERE UN. “THESE PAPERS HAD 00 MANY’ BRIT, BRD NOWne” | ING Mocne wip nvDoY MEMORIES. $01 BURIED THEM. ENEN LOOKED IN. or) —' 4 ‘DID You EVER READ Y ANY oF THEM?... CAN You REMEMBER, WHET SHE WROTE? 5 | _ Ue NO.1 LOOKED IN, BUT | Dont REMEMBER..ontLy | KNOW THAT SHE SBID. "1 WISH MAY. S0n, WHEN HE GROWS UP HE. WIL GE INTERESTED BH THIS.” ‘To YOUR FATHER You YELL. WA TWAS WAN... EVEN To OUR You SHOULD NEVER YELL THIS WAY! BUT, Vm TELLING You, AFTER THE TRAGEDY bint MOTHER, | WAS WEN, | PION HONOW AF 1'm COMING OR 1M GOING! ook, Por. i's GETTING LITE. p Y Le AG: peel Come Fi NNO... REALLY. 1'D 50. TELEP AONE - STAIRS Fe BETTER GET GOING LITTLE COFFEE. } RIGHT AWAY, MORE f | bz “aii inst UE Y OR A, ; Gre OrTEN bon Nae? TS eS a for“Spiegelman portrays the Nazis as cats, the Jews as mice, the Poles as pigs and the Americans as dogs. They are all terrifyingly human. This is comic strip art which has nothing to do with Tom and Jerry. Anyone moved by Briggs's When the Wind Blows ... will appreciate Spiegelman's genius for dealing with a subject many would say cannot be dealt with at all” = The Times “You need be neither a Jew nora death-camp ghoul to be moved. Anyone who has ever tried to understand the mystery of their parents, and how the 20th century has treated them, will find in Maus a key that turns the lock” ~ lan Jack in the Observer “This intensely personal account of a family’s survival, of hair-oreadth escapes and incarceration, deals artfully with experiences and emotions that many might fervently wish to forget. Of how, when life is stripped to subsistence level, trust and betrayal take on unprecedented dimensions... In the tradition of Aesop and Orwell, it serves to shock and impart powerful resonance to what, after all is a well documented subject, And the artwork is so accomplished, forceful and moving, without resorting to sentimentality, that it works” ~ Time Out “Maus memorialises Spiegelman's father’s experience of the Holocaust - it follows his story, frame by frame, from youth and marriage in pre-war Poland to imprisonment in Auschwitz ...The Survivor's tale’ that results is stark and unembelished... One of the clichés about the Holocaust is that you can't imagine it ~ like nuclear war, its horror outfaces the artistic imagination, Spiegelman disproves that theory” ~ Independentart Spiegelman Axt Spiegelman, born in Stockholm in 1948, is co-editor of Rew, the intemationally ac- claimed magazine of avant-garde corsics and graphics. His work has been published in the New York Times, Playboy, the Village Voice, and many other periodicals in the ULS. and abroad. He has received Europe's highly respected Yellow Kid Award for his work on Maus, and also Playboy's 1982 Edi- torial Award. A teacher at New York's School of Visual Arts, he lives in New York, where he is currently at work on Maus, Part I: “From Mauschwitz to the Catskills.” Cover illustration and design by Avt SpiegelmanQc eae et Cees cee settee LL CR Cua Rua ance at Ru ar I IL ts Brilliant, just brilliant.” —Jules Feiffer ore ISBN _0-16-010614-3 o-: = ll | 780140"104141 | PS wea UL EL (a) Ce ard