If he were simply an artist depicting Western trauma—if his books about the Holocaust and 9/11 were mere memoir or journalism—then Art Spiegelman would still have garnered success by his skill and humanity. But the genius of it all, the thing that won Spiegelman a Pulitzer Prize for Maus (the first given to a graphic novel), is his uncanny ability to reveal the “comic” form as a medium more nimble and subtle than anyone had previously suspected.
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