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Never Again and Again.”Would you call it (Gaza) a Genocide?”

SAN FRANCISCO

Lee Heidhues 2.10.2025

Art Spiegelman won a Pulitzer Prize with his graphic cartoon history of the Holocaust MAUS. Now he has stepped four square into the Middle East cauldron with an unvarnished takedown of the Israeli assault against the Palestinian people of Gaza. Spiegelman and fellow artist Joe Sacco have created a graphic cartoon story which is sure to be praised by many and scorned by others.

Maus,[a] often published as Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman, serialized from 1980 to 1991. It depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The work employs postmodern techniques, and represents Jews as mice and other Germans and Poles as cats and pigs respectively. Critics have classified Maus as memoir, biography, history, fiction, autobiography, or a mix of genres. In 1992, it became the first and only graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus

The February 27, 2025 issue of the oft times staid New York Review of Books (NYRB) is running a brief, powerful indictment of the Israeli government titled NEVER AGAIN..AND AGAIN…AND AGAIN..AND AGAIN. By the Power of Modern Cartooning, Two Comic Artists Have Drawn Themselves Into The Gaza Strip.