Using at least one example of graphic fiction please discuss why you believe it is more or less effective in storytelling as traditional fiction.

Combining the unlikely elements of comic books and the Holocaust, Art Spiegelman's Maus is a truly unique work of art. As a medium, comics are generally associated with superheroes and wacky characters; at first glance, using a comic book format for a topic as terrible as the Holocaust might appear to be in poor taste. Yet Maus ultimately succeeds in portraying the horrors of that event and speaking to the shadows that it continues to cast on survivors and their children.