Scenes of a graphic nature

Championing a form often dismissed, Bryan Talbot explains why Art Spiegelman’s comic memoir Maus’ is worth reading

- Bryan Talbot

I'm not ashamed to admit it - I do read prose books. However, being a writer and artist of graphic novels, I find myself obliged to choose one in order to champion the form in general - it's Art Spiegelman's Maus. Dealing with the harrowing wartime experiences of his father, Vladek, a Polish Jew and survivor of Auschwitz, and Spiegelman's troubled relationship with him; it's biography, autobiography and historical memoir, told in the comics medium.