Maus remains as the only comic book/graphic novel to receive a Pulitzer Prize. This should say something about Spiegelman's work because he was able to earn an award that disrespects the medium. He was able to bring to life his own life and twist it in and out of his father recollecting stories of survival during the Holocaust.

Meaning lies within each word of Spiegelman's dialogue as he weaves his stories together for his audience. In a medium where words are not necessarily as respected as the art, he does an excellent job at showing the literary beauty a comic book can posses. In this emotionally charged graphic novel, he creates a memorable tale that begins before the Holocaust and follows the ordinary lives of his father. The graphic novel continues to capture the attempt of his mother and father to regain that normalcy they once experience while doing their best to avoid the Nazis until one day they are captured and are sent to Auschwitz. His words and illustrations follow the horrors experienced by real life characters yet each is depicted as a certain animals.

Each animal represents an overall view of a person during the Nazi Regime. To an outsider, the mice may look childish, but instead, it is the opposite. Spiegelman's choice to use animals within his work is probably one of the best. It adds to it more than takes away from it since the artwork is able to reveal a "hidden" meaning to each characters that is originally introduced along with the dialogue that follows them.

Without a doubt, I believe this is a piece of art that should be studying by everybody. It's a must read for any person who is or isn't interested in the subject manner. The graphic novel is enlightening and reveals an interesting look at the terrors of the Holocaust and the scars left afterwards for Art who had to grow up with parents who suffered enough for more than a lifetime. He does their story and his justice.