“Disaster is my muse.”
Maus was originally published by chapter in RAW, a comics magazine edited by Spiegelman and his wife, Françoise Mouly (Cavna, 2016). The chapters were included as inserts with covers drawn by Spiegelman.
Later, after little success in connecting with publishers, Pantheon Books agreed to publish the first six chapters in one volume in 1986 and another (with the remaining chapters) in 1991 (Cavna, 2016). The two-volume work was titled Maus: A Survivor's Tale, and each volume was subtitled My Father Bleeds History and And Here My Troubles Began.
Subsequent editions combining the two volumes and adding extraneous material have been published over the years, including Pantheon's MetaMaus from 2011. MetaMaus included a brand new hardcover, interviews with Spiegelman and Mouly, Spiegelman's archival material from his research, and transcripts of his original interviews with his father, Vladek (Kois, 2011).
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Cavna, M. (2016, August 11). Why ‘Maus’ remains ‘the greatest graphic novel ever written’, 30 years later. The Washington Post. Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/08/11/why-maus-remains-the-greatest-graphic-novel-ever-written-30-years-later/
Kois, D. (2011, Dec. 2). The making of 'Maus'. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/books/review/the-making-of-maus.html
Maus Vol 1 image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7d/Maus_%28volume_1%29_cover.jpg
Maus Vol 2 image: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51aip91x6bL._AC_SY400_.jpg
The Complete Maus image: https://www.colorado.edu/honorsjournal/sites/default/files/article-image/maus.jpg
MetaMaus image: https://media.npr.org/assets/bakertaylor/covers/m/metamaus/9780375423949_custom-d727d2b2d67205c95bedd0d507477856252d733b-s300-c85.jpg