Likewise, Spiegelman also makes his mini-comic Prisoner “touchable” by its juxtaposition within Maus. As Scott McCloud emphasizes throughout his work Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, the author’s ability to make the characters simple enough-to where the readers can relate to their stories-is one of the most important aspects of comics as a medium, and Spiegelman achieves this through his simplification and depersonalization-physically-of his characters. After circulating through the “comix” scene for a short while, it was deemed “too hot to touch”: what reader or critic would have the nerve to attempt an analysis of an autobiographical comic about a nervous breakdown? Yet, Spiegelman seems to possess an infallible talent of taking commonly “untouchable” concepts or ideas and making them tangible to the common person: for instance, using cats and mice to tell the story of the Holocaust and its victims. Spiegelman initially wrote and released his work Prisoner on the Hell Planet in “an obscure underground comic book” (Vol.
He was fated to be insane, born into his family, into his world. Or, rather, he has no control over his mental fate: he is born to be crazy, with just a few too many screws loose in his head for him to be considered “functional.” There is no other way to describe Art Spiegelman, the comic extraordinaire, author of The Wild Party, Open Me, I’m a Dog, In the Shadow of No Towers, Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Maus, and the brilliant work within a work, Prisoner on the Hell Planet. The third theory, and most relevant in this case: a man is predestined to be insane. Theory number two is a lengthier process: it’s some sort of small bacterium that wiggles its way into the man’s mind, rooting itself in the confines of his brain and eating away at the sanity inside.
Theory number one: one day during his lifetime the man suffers a significant, life-altering experience that completely modifies the way he thinks, the way he dreams, and the way he functions. How does a man become “insane?” I have a few theories. Prisoner on the Hell Planet: A Case History
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