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The United Association's chief officer is General President Mark McManus. In August 2016, Mark McManus was unanimously elected as General President at the UA's 39th General Convention and on November 10, 2016, he assumed his new position leading the nation's most progressive and influential trade union.
Maus is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman, serialized from 1980 to 1991. It depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor.The book uses postmodern techniquesâmost strikingly in its depiction of races as different kinds of animals: Jews as mice, Germans as cats, and non-Jewish Poles as pigs.he recorded interviews became the basis for the graphic novel, which Spiegelman began in 1978. He serialized Maus from 1980 until 1991 as an insert in Raw, an avant-garde comics and graphics magazine published by Spiegelman and his wife, Francoise FranÃ§oise, mouly who also appears In. maus