... Holocaust into a comic book, using mice to represent the Jews and cats to represent the Nazis. This book, "Maus" (mouse in German), took 13 years to create and finish. When "Maus" hit the book stores, many people had mixed feelings about a book that told the story of one man's ... of a comic. Many people were appalled and disgusted that someone could make something as serious as the Holocaust into a cartoon. However, many critics raved about "Maus." The New York Times said it's "a remarkable feat of documentary detail and novelistic vividness .and unfolding literary event." The Boston Glo...

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