Beyond MAUS

The Legacy of Holocaust Comics

Ole Frahm, Hans-Joachim Hahn, Markus Streb, Hans-Joachim Hahn, Markus Streb

• Publisher: Böhlau Wien
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9783205210658
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783205210665
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

Beyond MAUS. The Legacy of Holocaust Comics collects 16 contributions that shed new light on the representation of the Holocaust. While MAUS by Art Spiegelman has changed the perspectives, other comics and series of drawings, some produced while the Holocaust happened, are often not recognised by a wider public. A plethora of works still waits to be discovered, like early caricatures and comics referring to the extermination of the Jews, graphic series by survivors or horror stories from 1950s comic books. The volume provides overviews about the depictions of Jews as animals, the representation of prisoner societies in comics as well as in depth studies about distorted traces of the Holocaust in Hergé's Tintin and in Spirou, the Holocaust in Mangas, and Holocaust comics in Poland and Israel, recent graphic novels and the use of these comics in schools. With contributions from different disciplines, the volume also grants new perspectives on comic scholarship.

Table of contents

• Beyond MAUS
• Table of Contents
• Sarah Lightman: Forward (And Backwords)
• Ole Frahm, Hans-Joachim Hahn and Markus Streb: Introduction
• Ole Frahm: Ghosts, Golems, Angels
• I.
• Kathrin Hoffmann-Curtius: Post-war Graphic Cycles
• Emil Gruber: Israël Souviens Toi  !
• II.
• Markus Streb: Early Representations of Concentration Camps in Golden Age Comic Books
• Didier Pasamonik
• Didier Pasamonik: From the Dreyfus Affair to MAUS
• Kees Ribbens: The Invisible Jews in August Froehlich’s “Nazi Death Parade” (1944)
• III.
• Jaqueline Berndt: Collapsing Boundaries
• Susanne Korbel: The Portrayal of Children’s Experiences of the Holocaust in Israeli Graphic Novels and Comics
• Kalina Kupczyńska: Haunted But Not Healed
• IV.
• Hans-Joachim Hahn: Distorted Traces of the Holocaust in Hergé’s Tintin
• Jörn Ahrens: Hidden Atrocities
• V.
• Georg Marschnig: “Students like it, it’s still their genre.”
• Jeff McLaughlin
• Jeff McLaughlin: Graphic Novels and the Holocaust  : “Just” comics  ?
• VI.
• Nina Eckhoff-Heindl and Véronique Sina : Second Generation Comics
• Dana Mihăilescu: “Shot in the heart on Valentine’s day”
• Dennis Bock: “Inside Concentration Camps”
• List of Figures
• Contributors
• Index