#t.m

[daisala]

Hi

[oioi17]

ずっと背中合わせだったのに居なくなって、どうにも出来ないもどかしさというか、俺が悪いんだけどそれを素直に認められなくて離れて過ごした一年半。何度振り返っても楽しいことしかなくて、どうしてこうなったのかって自問自答してた。全ては俺が悪くて、保身に回って、そんなだからうまくいかなくなって、半分ヤケになってたなって今だから思うんだけど。

俺がひとつ歳をとったあの日、しかもあんなド深夜に連絡くるなんて思ってもみなかったんだけど、相変わらず夜更かしだなーとか、お互い不器用すぎてここまできちゃったなーとか、なんかちょっと冷静で。でも、"やっと溜めに溜めてた話ができる！！"っていう安心感というか、やっぱりどこかで必ず"あいつならなんて言うかな"ってのがあったから、そういう気持ちにもなったんすよね。とかいいつつ、誰かさんの「久しぶりすぎて恥ずかしい」の一言で話したいことの1mmも話せてないんだけど。

たまに全体重かけたくなるし、それを華麗に避けられるときもあれば逆に全体重にプラスして何持ってんの？ってくらい重たいモノ乗せてくる時もあるけど、その関係が心地良くて、やっぱお前だわってなってます。

何が言いたいかっていうと、誕生日おめでとう。ステキな1年になりますように。

[survivors-tale-blog]

Voice and Tone

Voice

      Throughout Maus there are two prominent voices. Vladek, the Holocaust survivor and the artist, Art Spiegelman. We see how the story unfolds from both their viewpoints. Through the first-person recounts, the reader finds the story more immersive as we start to feel what the narrator was feeling at that moment

Tone

Since Maus is told from both Vladek and Art’s point of view the tone of the graphic novel varies. With Vladek the tone is mature and dark but when it shifts to Art, the tone is more child-like, curious or even somber at times. Both Vladek and Art bring the tone of the novel to a more melancholic feel as they remember the trauma, loss, and memories of the past and the raw weight of the events

-TM

https://www.shmoop.com/maus/narrator-point-of-view.html

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https://angeldanielmatos.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/maus-example-1.jpg

[survivors-tale-blog]

Career Highs and Lows

Art Spiegelman attended Manhattan’s High School of Art and Design when his family moved to New York. He then continued on to have a career as a professional artist, selling illustrations to the Long Island Post. He first big art break was when he began his two-decade long run as a contributing artist and designer for Topps Chewing Gun. During that time, Spiegelman developed Garbage Pail Kids and Wacky Packages trading cards which were very successful.

Spiegelman went onward to the State University of New York from 1965-1968 while exploring the alternative comix and comics scene. In 1968, with his mother’s suicide, he left college a year early and then spent the early 1970s contributing to the underground comics industry. During this 0time, he published the three-page version of Maus and Prisoner on the Hell Planet, which was an attempt to understand his mother’s suicide, in Justin Green’s Funny Animals anthology. Both of these works, amongst others were also included in Breakdowns

In 1980, he co-founded RAW (Real Art Works), an underground comic and graphic anthology, with his wife, François Mouly. In RAW’s second issue, he continued Maus, thus pushing Spiegelman into the mainstream comics world. The work on Maus had led Spiegelman to work at the New York Times as an illustrator, a Playboy cartoonist, and a staff artist and writer for the New Yorker. Despite the years that have passed by, Spiegelman’s work has been continued to be viewed as a class by the comics industry.

-TM

 Career High and Lows

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Art-Spiegelman

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https://cdn.filepicker.io/api/file/LtjQTxr3QBmASqAjZU3y/convert?fit=max&h=874&w=1312&compress=true

[survivors-tale-blog]

Influences

The concept of Maus was influenced by Art Spiegelman’s parents, Vladek and Anja, both of who were survivors of the Auschwitz death camp. Spiegelman used the story as a way to become closer to his father after his mother had committed suicide. He used their experiences for an assignment for a three-page comic in 1972. This way he showed their emotional trauma from the Holocaust. Even after completing the comic, Spiegelman felt that he needed more from the story. He then visited his father once again with a tape recorder in tow to get more content for Maus.

Throughout his budding career, Spiegelman found inspiration in Mad comics. He felt that the comics had shaped him were “particularly anti-authoritarian”. During an interview with IndieBound, Spiegelman said that he “can’t tell how things influenced him”, but found some sort of inspiration through several artists like Vladimir Nabokov, Gertrude Stein, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and James Cain

-TM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/08/11/why-maus-remains-the-greatest-graphic-novel-ever-written-30-years-later/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Art-Spiegelman

https://www.indiebound.org/author-interviews/spiegelmanart

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/interviews/a25954/art-spiegelman-interview/

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https://www.bobwelbaum-author.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/220px-Madhk1.jpg

[e-maccin559]

E-Maccin (Macc Classic)

[denytheundeniable]

I wrapped myself around you and let your lies become my truth.

T.M

[denytheundeniable]

I am forever grateful for having had the pleasure of sharing out of your happiness. As life takes you down paths I may never trail, I am saddened for your departure but thrilled to continue to cheer you on even though we’re miles apart.

-T.M