I don't mean to nitpick, but I should probably point out that Maus won a special Pulitizer Prize for literature (sort of like an "honorable mention"), not the main Pulitizer Prize for literature for that year.Thomas Froehling wrote: Well, yes, "Maus" is highly to be recommended; as far as I know it is the first comic book to win a Pulitzer Price....
I agree that Maus is a very good graphic novel. I actually read it for the first time in a college literature class, and I think that it's actually better than some of the prose novels I've had to read in lit classes.
Although it seems like a somewhat weird term to apply to Maus, I think that it is technically considered part of the "funny animal" genre since "funny animal" comics actually can be serious (similar to how "comic" books are not always comical).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funny_animal
Last night, I read Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughn and Niko Henrichon (a very good graphic novel), which is set in the "real world" and features non-anthropomorphized lions as the main characters. How would that be classified?