Breath of Bones is a golem story set in Poland. This graphic novel, which contains parts 1, 2, and 3 of a series, introduces us to a boy named Noah whose father has gone away to join the allied forces. Noah’s grandfather, who is his mentor and best friend, does not expect to see Noah’s father return...
She Left Me the Gun by Emma Brockes is an examination of what it's like to be the child of a survivor. As in Speigelman's Maus, Brockes traces the events of her parent's life to make sense of events that occurred in her own. A well-written and fast-moving account, this book traces Emma Brockes journ...
It's an open question whether grisly details are ever appropriate given this or related topics of war, but a cartoon version of Nazism, stripped, as I remember it, of the necessary and appropriate sense of incessant doom, didn't seem to be especially effective. Maybe if you took the Master and Marga...
Wow, this is really, really intense. I think it is facinating that the Jews are portrayed as Mice and the Nazi’s are portrayed as cats. I am not surprised at all that this comic won a pulitzer prize. Art gets 4 stars, storyline gets 5 stars. I’m really excited to read the second volume which I h...
This book is absolutely, undeniably brilliant from start to finish. In Maus I and II, Spiegelman layers the story of his father's survival of the Holocaust with his own achingly humorous (or humorously aching?) interactions with his father, effectively displaying the ways in which the horrors have ...
So so sad. What a truly shameful part of our history the Holocaust was. To think that a group of people would be treated so abysmally for no good reason just hurts my heart. Despite the fact that this was a graphic novel that had the characters portrayed as mice (Jews), pigs(Poles) and cats (Germans...
Grandpa and I are standing by the wooden fence that holds my cousin's horses. They aren't skittish, but they stand just out of reach and flick their ears with watchfulness and flies. It's full summer in Wisconsin, all grass and the scritch-scritch of insects in the grass. We talk about my cousin and...
Using the comic book format to tell the story of the author's parents surviving the Holocaust seemed like a strange way of going about it. Now that I finished the book, I can't imagine how it could have been done better. Depicting Jews as mice, Germans as cats, Poles as pigs, French as frogs and A...
The retelling of a father's experience during the Nazi reign of Germany in graphic novel form. The author's biographical story of his mother and father's life, as told to him by his father. Terrific.
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