Art Spiegelman

Maus forces the reader to bear witness in a way no written account can, and the picture-specific portions are especially good at forcing the eye to see what the mind prefers to glide past.

Art Spiegelman, who won a 1992 Pulitzer Prize for 'Maus', told CNBC that the decision was “Orwellian.”

“Maus” creator said in the essay, which was published in The Guardian, that the book’s co-publisher Marvel Comics was trying to stay “apolitical.”