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Maus: A Survivor's Tale

My Father Bleeds History

by Art Spiegelman

Maus a Survivors Tale

Hardcover, 159 pages, Random House Inc, List Price: $22 |

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Title: Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Subtitle: My Father Bleeds History
Author: Art Spiegelman

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Title: Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Subtitle: My Father Bleeds History
Author: Art Spiegelman

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The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp.

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Graphic Novel About Holocaust 'Maus' Banned In Russia For Its Cover

April 28, 2015 • NPR's Robert Siegel talks with author and illustrator Art Spiegelman about how his book Maus, the very antithesis of Nazi propaganda, was purged from Moscow stores because of a swastika on the cover.

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Art Spiegelman, The Artist As A 'Young %@&*!'

November 6, 2008 • First published in 1978, Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! revisits and restores the lost and mildly X-rated nascent years of a great American artist.