<P> Spiegelman struggled to find a publisher for a book edition of Maus, but after a rave New York Times review of the serial in August 1986, Pantheon Books published the first six chapters in a volume called Maus: A Survivor's Tale and subtitled My Father Bleeds History . Spiegelman was relieved that the book's publication preceded the theatrical release of the animated film An American Tail by three months, as he believed that the film, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, was inspired by Maus and wished to avoid comparisons with it . </P> <P> The book found a large audience, partly because of its distribution through bookstores rather than the direct market comic shops where comic books were normally sold . Maus was difficult for critics and reviewers to classify, and also for booksellers, who needed to know on which shelves to place it . Though Pantheon pushed for the term "graphic novel", Spiegelman was not comfortable with this, as many book - length comics were being referred to as "graphic novels" whether or not they had novelistic qualities . He suspected the term's use was an attempt to validate the comics form, rather than to describe the content of the books . Spiegelman later came to accept the term, and with Drawn and Quarterly publisher Chris Oliveros successfully lobbied the Book Industry Study Group in the early 2000s to include "graphic novel" as a category in bookstores . </P> <P> Pantheon collected the last five chapters in 1991 in a second volume subtitled And Here My Troubles Began . Pantheon later collected the two volumes into soft - and hardcover two - volume boxed sets and single - volume editions . In 1994 the Voyager Company released The Complete Maus on CD - ROM, a collection which contained the original comics, Vladek's taped transcripts, filmed interviews, sketches, and other background material . The CD - ROM was based on HyperCard, a Macintosh - only application that has since become obsolete . In 2011 Pantheon Books published a companion to The Complete Maus entitled MetaMaus, with further background material, including filmed footage of Vladek . The centerpiece of the book is a Spiegelman interview conducted by Hillary Chute . It also has interviews with Spiegelman's wife and children, sketches, photographs, family trees, assorted artwork, and a DVD with video, audio, photos, and an interactive version of Maus . </P> <P> Spiegelman dedicated Maus to his brother Richieu and his first daughter Nadja . The book's epigraph is a quote from Adolf Hitler: "The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but they are not human ." </P>

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