Phill's comic review thread

[Peasant Phill]

Maus is great I agree, I kinda have a problem with the cats/mouse/pigs concept but in the end it doesn't really have any pretentions. Baby vs tree will haunt me for life. You will probably like Joe Sacco's work (Gorazde & Palestina) same genre, it's horribly onesided but that is more for the backroom, but he is really good at presenting a situation, if you liked Maus you will like this as well.

The only reason I could figure out for the different animals to represent different groups of people was just to make a clear distinction that would otherwise be a lot harder given the simplicity of the line art.

I liked Maus for the sincere story rather than the subject itself.