Ruby Ruiz Mrs. Love Hilliard English Language Arts III 15 December 2016 Maus Maus, a book written by Art Spiegelman in 1980 is formatted as a graphic novel. It's an Autobiography where the author's father’s story is being told and shown in the pictures. The way this book is formatted helps the readers foll ow along with the story and understand what the characters were seeing and what they were going through. This book plays out well with all of the facial expressions and body language involved in the story. For example, in the beginning of the book Vladek and Anja were on a train going towards Czechoslovakia and right before arriving they passed a Small town. (Spiegelman, 33) Artie Spiegelman informed us in his text that