I found this very entertaining, and it is a great physical production. I don't recommend it if you haven't read Maus. The first book in Mark's 2011 list to pick up the coveted asterisk in a long time. ( )

Excellent, in-depth interview. Offers background to gathering history, publishing process, creation process, personal toll and rewards.

Supplementary DVD-R requires 32-bit Macintosh. ( )

As much as Spiegelman's Maus can stand alone as one of the great Holocaust memoires, this volume of supplementary material is invaluable in truely understanding the text. The interviews conducted with the artist/author do a fantastic job of exploring his artistic influences - which is important considering how unique his art style is - as well as his creative process - which is sure to be useful to future researchers of the graphic novel/comic book genre. The interviewer takes things a step further, though, and through insightful and sensitive questions gets Spiegelman to open up about his relationship with his father and the driving force behind his need to tell his father's story. Through their open dialogue we are able to dig much deeper into the story of Maus, as it not simply about survivors - it is also about the second generation and their relationships post-Holocaust. ( )

Tan recomendable como Maus. Y al leer este libro, te vienen ganas de releerlo de nuevo. Y de descubrir a autores que menciona Spiegelman.
Sus reflexiones sobre el cómic son geniales, y hacen avanzar una futura lectura de Little Nemo in Slumberland.

Próximamente, en el blog, inauguraré un apartado de citas con este libro.

EDITO 20/2/2015: el DVD no es un DVD, es un CD-ROM. Dos cosas:
1) no hay traducido NADA del CD-ROM al español. Todo en inglés. Si lo editas en español, lo coherente es traducirlo todo y dejar el original si quieres, ¿o no?
2) se debe instalar QuickTime, incluso en Windows.
Malas decisiones ambas, según mi opinión, porque alejan a aquellos lectores no tan acostumbrados o que no saben inglés. ( )

Perhaps the most acclaimed and significant graphic novel ever produced, Spiegelman's powerful anthropomorphic [b: Maus|15195|The Complete Maus|Art Spiegelman|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327354180s/15195.jpg|1658562] chronicled the life of his father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew Holocaust survivor. The powerful tale, related from a series of interviews between the Spiegelmans, employed cartoon, traditionally funny, animals as avatars for the various nationalities -- mice for the Jews, cats for the Germans, pigs for the Americans, etc. -- to great effect in this serious, intelligent, and important story. For his efforts, Spiegelman was awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize, the first graphic novel to receive the honor. Though Maus tales were serialized in various publications beginning with the 1972 underground comix Funny Animals, the initial graphic novel first appeared in 1986. To commemorate the event's 25th anniversary, the gorgeous behind-the-scenes hardcover Metamaus recounts Spiegelman's tribulations in creating his singular, personal family memoir. Amidst the rare art and family photos in the 300 page book, the magnificent tome includes a lengthy interview with the author, the Spiegelman family tree, transcripts of the interviews with Vladek, and a time line of the events in Maus. Additionally, the volume comes with The Complete Maus, a hyperlinked DVD of the entire graphic novel, an in-depth archive of audio interviews with the Spiegelmans, and lots more.