From Pulitzer Prize-winner Art Spiegelman comes a "rare glimpse inside the mind of a genius storyteller" (Maria Popova,The Atlantic)andthe artistic process that createdMaus,available in paperback for the first time

Art Spiegelman'sMausis an undisputed modern classic. Part history, part memoir, all comic, it recounts his father's chilling experiences during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats. TheWall Street Journalcalled itthe most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust, andThe New Yorkerdubbed it the first masterpiece in comic book history. In 1992, it became the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize.

InMetaMaus,Spiegelman welcomes readers into his world and the thirteen years-long artistic process behind his seminal book. In extensive interviews with the author and his familyincluding Spiegelman's original conversation with his father, which served as the foundational narrative ofMausMetaMausgrapples with the original work's most foundational questions: Why write about the Holocaust? Why choose comics as a medium? Why mice?

Richly interspersed with excerpts from Spiegelman's own sketchbooks, as well as drawings by Holocaust survivors and archival photographs,MetaMausis a vivid glimpse into the creative life of an artist, the vital work of a historian, and the birth of amagnum opus.