Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Can a comic book change how we tell history?
Art Spiegelman proved it can.
His Pulitzer Prize–winning Maus didn’t simplify the Holocaust, it confronted it. Through stark black-and-white panels, Spiegelman explored survival, trauma, and the complicated legacy children of survivors inherit.
The book has been celebrated. It’s also been banned. Which raises a bigger question: How should we teach painful history?
Can a comic book change how we tell history?
Art Spiegelman proved it can.
His Pulitzer Prize–winning Maus didn’t simplify the Holocaust, it confronted it. Through stark black-and-white panels, Spiegelman explored survival, trauma, and the complicated legacy children of survivors inherit.
The book has been celebrated. It’s also been banned. Which raises a bigger question: How should we teach painful history?
