Maus: A Survivor's Tale Art and Culture Quotes

Art’s use of a tape recorder (and inclusion of photographs) brings up the question of whether there are more accurate ways to represent the reality of the Holocaust. How can a comic compete with a tape recorder or a camera?

Ironically, it is his father’s story that inspires one of his most successful and critically acclaimed books.

Up to this point, Art has created art that he knows his father will never read; comics are a way for him to gain some independence from his father.