For me as a reader everything that the artist described in this book were already familiar, but the way in which Art Spiegelman mixes his present day relations with his father and their arguments and then taking the reader back to the horrors that his father and family went through during the war felt so unique. It was the author’s clever use of cartoon as an influential medium to highlight the impacts of the brutality and horrors of war on ‘Vladek Spiegelman’ as an individual and on his life – both during the war and after surviving the war –, which felt brilliant for me.