The best comic book in history finally has a documentary

Here is a documentary about the difficulty of depicting the Holocaust. Or perhaps about the catharsis of exploring the complicated relationship with your father and ultimately exposing it publicly in a work from the heart. It could also be a film about the pressure and curse of success: transcending underground niches and having a major impact can lead to writer's block. It's also possible that we're looking at a documentary about fate as a cruel joker: a seminal work on historical memory, so as never to forget the atrocities of Nazism (the book burnings, for example), which, years later, ends up being censored in some US states. We're talking, of course, about Art Spiegelman and Maus

You don't have to be a huge comic book fan to be interested in this documentary about this creator and his masterpiece (the first comic to win a Pulitzer Prize, in 1992). It took Spiegelman almost 20 years to finish it. Maus As we know it now, it's logical that the thickness of the film speaks about This work and its surroundingsBut since this is the first documentary ever made about this author, it's also important to discuss his role in the magazine. Raw or in the New Yorker or of little-explored curiosities, being a co-author of the trading cards The Garbage GangIn other words, this is a very good and very educational gateway to the universe ofone of the great revolutionaries and driving forces of Western culture who is still alive.