Maus by Art Spiegelman is a famous comic strip that won a Pulitzer Prize. The book was published in two parts, Volume I: "My Father Bleeds History", in 1986, and Volume II: "And Here My Troubles Began", in 1991. It was later integrated into a single volume. The book chronicled Spiegelman's desire to write about his father's experiences during the Holocaust, as well as the experiences themselves. Numerous books about the Holocaust have been published over the decades, but Maus is different from them all. After reading numerous books about the Holocaust, they become repetitive, because most people are aware of the tragic event. Maus offers not only the history of the Holocaust, but also stories about its victims and even the next generation. Its distinction was already shown through Spiegelman's use of animals for nationalities. This method was perhaps Spiegelman's way of showing readers the racial hierarchy. Furthermore, this comic does not tell a typical Holocaust story, because it is a legacy of the event. The comic has stories within stories, that of Vladek Spiegelman (Art's father) and that of Art himself. The comic tells how the Holocaust affected Vladek's life afterwards, and as Vladek recounted his experiences to Art, it showed how their relationship was also affected. As Art took in everything his father told him in the book, he tried to understand it. What Art had to make of his father was through the stories of the Holocaust, as he tried to relate to him. All these notions of the comic make it distinctive among all other books about the Holocaust. Maus has aspects that other books about the Holocaust do not include. The strategies used by Spiegelman, for example, are the representations of nationalities through animals. The animal women are: mice for the Jews, and cats... in the center of the paper... tells what happened after the victim told her story to the readers. Maybe that part was more important than the actual circumstance, because of what it did to people. Furthermore, it represented a relationship between those two generations united in the discussion of what happened. In this case, it was Vladek and Art: their relationship was negatively affected by the power of Vladek's past. Vladek was unable to move on with his life due to the trauma he received. His marriage with Mala was also destroyed due to old habits formed from his past. Confused and complicated emotions that were formed in the Art for the overall meaning of the book. This work showed how the past has ruined the present and potentially the future. The stylistic features included in this comic, together with the literary themes, have created a distinctive book, different from other works on the Holocaust.