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shreyash_89's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Genocide, Child abuse, Antisemitism, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, and Death
oldtoadwoman's review against another edition
5.0
At first, I didn't understand why the author chose to make the Jewish characters mice, but... it would have honestly been too horrible with people. The author also clearly acknowledges that the mice aren't really mice. There's a clever meta discussion at one point, where he and his wife debate whether he should draw her as a mouse (Jewish) or a frog (French) since she is a convert. (She is depicted as a mouse even as they have the conversation of which she should be.) It also underscores the racial lines that were perceived at the time. The Polish are depicted as pigs and the Germans as cats and the French as frogs, but the Jews are always depicted as mice regardless of nationality.
The principal character, the author/artist's father Vladek, is not a likeable person at all. I appreciate that Spiegelman didn't try to gloss over this or make excuses for him. (More than once, he points out that other Holocaust survivors that he knew growing up did not share all of Vladek's unpleasant quirks and thus it cannot be solely blamed on trauma.)
This is not a light read at all. It's a book about the Holocaust. There is no happy ending. But it's a good book and I recommend that you read it if you can.
Graphic: Racism, Antisemitism, Death, Murder, Torture, and Violence
Moderate: Child death, Suicide, and Child abuse
Minor: Blood and Cursing
auteaandtales's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Racism, Gore, Grief, Xenophobia, Abandonment, Antisemitism, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Violence, Excrement, Gun violence, Confinement, Murder, Police brutality, and War
nickshutter's review against another edition
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Medical trauma, Torture, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Antisemitism, Genocide, Chronic illness, Confinement, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, War, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Animal death, Dementia, Mental illness, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Terminal illness, and Blood
Minor: Excrement
klavin_lovell's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Antisemitism, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Dementia, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Terminal illness
Minor: Car accident and Toxic relationship