Although Marjane Satrapi and Art Spiegelman did not themselves suffer permanent physical trauma in their works (Persepolis and Maus respectively), they both suffer from a condition arising from their enduring existence: survivor’s guilt. With Satrapi as a witness to the material destruction of Iran and Spiegelman as the child of a Holocaust survivor, their degrees … Continue reading Silence and the Self: Illustrating Survival in Maus and Persepolis