This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Tangent 128: Actually, I did read it in literature class. (7th grade, I think.)
Skitzophrenik: I've seen the two volumes in our University's bookstore every semester for the past four years - so some class here uses it as a text. I had a class where we read Persepolis, and were told that that was only because the Prof has used Maus the previous semesters and wanted a change of material.
Ununnilium: Yep, same at my college.
Amake: While unintentionally funny, I thought it made comics look bad when the article said Maus has "all the basic underpinnings of a Holocaust memoir, but portrayed in the graphic novel style" and then went on to point out what comics are an underestimated art form. So I changed it. Oh and I changed "graphic novel" to something that maybe sounds less like comics is an art form trying so desperately to be taken more seriously it just sounds insecure in itself. Come on guys, there are comics like Maus, what more do you have to say in defense of comics as an art form?
Eponymous Kid: Wel, unless it was released in individual issuea that were then collected int one volume, it is a GN. Isn't it?
And, yeah, my mother read this in college, too.
Amake: It may be permissible to call it a graphic novel, much like a black man studying at Harvard may be called a Harvard student rather than a black man. But would you say one is more desirable than the other?
Gemmifer: Am I the only one who finds it kind of stupid to portray various nations as Animal Stereotypes? It just doesn't work that way in real life. It's actually not just dumb but has a lot of Unfortunate Implications.
That was kinda the point, And I just studied this in my first year at uni, the lecturer took it VERY seriously.
Kizor: I was too young to properly notice when I read Maus, but others say that the work goes to great lengths to prove how unsatisfactory and troubling the animals are.
