“Comics are the art of compression,” Art Spiegelman once said, urging us to see in this visual medium an endless fount of detail: graphic, bizarre, imaginative, and profoundly human. This comprehensive and insightful portrait of the gifted and anarchic illustrator meticulously chronicles his life and darkly humorous work, from the Garbage Pail Kids trading cards and his later cartoons in The New Yorker to the lasting fame he achieved with the graphic novel MAUS, where he adapted his parents’ Holocaust survival story into a universal anti-fascist allegory featuring cats and mice. Perfectly mirroring its subject, the documentary is accessible, entertaining, and offers a profound exploration of reality, capturing it in a way only comics can.