Maus and Maus II are a remarkable work. Vladek Spiegelman is a complicated, compelling character — an adroit, determined survivor of the worst of the Holocaust, and a stubborn, maddening survivor in his advanced years. I appreciate the honesty of the work, Art Spiegelman's simultaneous anger with his father and is deep admiration. People are complicated, the species in this story make clear, and we're the better for the stories here.