Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus: A Survivor's Tale #1)

Maus tells alternating stories, both of Art Spiegalman's father Vladek during WWII and the story of the contemporary relationship between Art and his father. The book starts out with Art trying to get his father to tell him his story so Art can draw a comic of it. Throughout the book the panels alternate between the present struggle of Art's relationship with is father and the story that his father tells.