At last! Here is the definitive edition of the book acclaimed as &#8220;the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust&#8221; (<i>Wall Street Journal</i>) and &#8220;the first masterpiece in comic book history&#8221; (<i>The New Yorker</i>). It now appears as it was originally envisioned by the author: <i>The Complete Maus.<br><br></i>It is the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler&#8217;s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father&#8217;s story. <i>Maus</i> approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in &#8220;drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust&#8221; (<i>The New York Times</i>).<br><br><i>Maus </i>is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek&#8217;s harrowing story of survival is woven into the author&#8217;s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century&#8217;s grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. <i>Maus </i>studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us.