Cartoons are not always funny

Well allow me to start off by first saying that Maus II made me look at the holocaust in a very new way, and I was very drawn in by it. I was going to say that I thoroughly enjoyed it, but that typically means that you felt joy while doing it, which needless to say it made me sad to read, and not very joyful at all.
But beyond all of that, it does lend itself to critiques and the intrigues of others and I found such a comment here. I was unable to find the name of the author of this document so for all intensive purposes I will call them Susan. Susan starts her (their) argument with the interesting notion of "When you think of a comic book you usually think of a heroic tale or something of fantasy." Susan goes on to say how the holocaust only produced villains and victims, and a cartoon lends itself to such a tragedy for the reader to fully grasp the scope of such a tragedy. This is very interesting because similar to our discussions in class, Susan also seems to believe that such an av-ant-guard presentation allows us to put anyone's face into the faces of the mice in Maus. Susan believes that by actually illustrating all of the emotions in Maus Speigelman tells his story in a direct way.
Susan also believes that the comic strip allows the transition from past to present to past again allows the book to flow much more smoothly, as apposed to simply describing the scenes with words.
Susan also makes the interesting discovery that while Vladek is telling his story you can see the number on his arm. The illustrations allow Speigelman to add detail and remove detail at his will.
Susan believes that Speigelman did not simply set out to retell his fathers story, but to find a way to emotionally attach people to the Holocaust.
Susan ends with quite an intriguing statement when she (they) says "Something so real can only be truly expressed through a medium that originated with exaggerating the qualities and characteristics of a hero." Overall it is a very interesting argument and so again if you feel so inclined to use it all you have to do is click here.