I just finished reading this, what does Yea Forums think of it? (also general indie-comix thread)

Perhaps the jews already got to my brain and i need to kill myself, before i do can you tell me how is it portrayed as a documentary and teaching tool?
For me it was like, this guy's dad got fucked up during WW2, and he never got unfucked.
I had my little brother read it (16) and now he hates the Jews with passion.

I kinda agree with you, Spiegelman doesn't depict the Poles really as the victims so much as secondary opressors, showing up as kapos and some even as collaborators.

I like that Art doesn't attempt to turn his father into a hero. If anything, Vladek (was that his name?) comes across as almost a caricature of a Jew, psychotically greedy, conniving, always using other people to his own advantage, and quite racist himself (against the "schwartzer"). He rejects his first fiancee because her family wasn't wealthy and says that like it was the normal thing to do. Vladek is also explictly an unreliable narrator, and his story changes on the fly a few times so the version of events we see in the book has been "edited" by him already before it even reaches Art's ears.

I think it's a good read.

Which is hilarious when you consider that his family were bourgeoisie exploiters who were actively oppressing the Polish workers, while refusing to adopt Polish culture or traditions or even speak the same language.

>before i do can you tell me how is it portrayed as a documentary and teaching tool?
Ask american education system

>written by a man named Art
>not a single colored panel
I've had the really nice red and black hardcover single volume version for years now and I still haven't read it because I can't into no color.

the Holocaust is my favorite fiction

it's part of the charm of this whole pseudo ''expressionistic'' wordless novel look'

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i GUESS

You are correct and it's done like that on purpose. It is supposed to portray jews as hypocritical assholes,