Maus is a more heartfelt story of Spiegelmans fathers experience in Poland during the war. It was the first Graphic Novel to win the Pulitzer Prize. Again all of the type appears to be hand-drawn, in an even more personal style than other comics I have been looking at.
As the story progresses and the characters grow up the type becomes heavier, here when Spiegelman is recalling his own childhood the story is written in a more childish lower-case. This is possibly to set the reader up in the mid of a child who has not yet found out about what his father went thorough.
Again when spoken words become exaggerated in the story they become bolder on the page to reflect the tone of voice the characters are using. Grammar is also punctuated with glyphs to represent the accents and language people use. The impression I get from the novel is that type is a very fluid and malleable thing, much like language itself. The opposite of how we are taught to use it growing up.
Again a separate white-outline type is used to illustrate environmental noise, or anything that is not speech. One thing that separates the letterforms here from the type in Sin City is that most are not in italic, if anything they shear in the opposite direction very slightly. This must be a reflection of Spiegelmans own handwriting.
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