Prisoner on the Hell Planet

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Prisoner on the Hell Planet is an autobiographical, expressionist-style comic by Art Spiegelman that confronts his mother’s suicide and his own grief with stark, emotionally intense imagery.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf autobiographical comic
comic
expressionist comic
artStyle expressionist
heavily crosshatched
woodcut-like
author Art Spiegelman NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Art Spiegelman NERFINISHED
criticalReception widely praised for emotional honesty
depicts suicide of Anja Spiegelman
firstPublication Short Order Comix #1 NERFINISHED
format short story comic
genre autobiographical comics
expressionism
underground comix
hasCharacter Anja Spiegelman NERFINISHED
Art Spiegelman NERFINISHED
Vladek Spiegelman NERFINISHED
includedIn Maus NERFINISHED
The Complete Maus NERFINISHED
influenced later autobiographical graphic novels
inUniverseRole depicts Art Spiegelman as a character
language English
mainSubject Art Spiegelman’s mother
grief
suicide
medium black-and-white comics
narrativeLocation New York City NERFINISHED
notableFor early example of autobiographical comics
stark, emotionally intense imagery
pageCount 4
partOf Art Spiegelman’s body of work
positionInWork inserted as a comic-within-the-comic in Maus
publicationYear 1972
publisher Apex Novelties NERFINISHED
relatedWork Maus II NERFINISHED
setting psychiatric hospital (briefly depicted)
targetAudience adult readers
theme Holocaust aftermath
family trauma
guilt
mental illness
mother–son relationship
timeOfNarrative late 1960s
tone confessional
dark
intense

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Art Spiegelman notableWork Prisoner on the Hell Planet