Maus is a
graphic novel by American cartoonist
Art Spiegelman, serialized from 1980 to 1991. It depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a
Polish Jew and
Holocaust survivor. The work represents Jews as mice and other Germans and Poles as cats and pigs. Critics have classified
Maus as memoir, biography, history, fiction, autobiography, or a mix of genres. In 1992 it became the first graphic novel to win a
Pulitzer Prize.