(assuming animation is fair game here)

Maus is like the Anti-Watchmen... It doesn't hot dog around with the medium AT ALL. It's pure, no-frills storytelling. I remember hearing an anecdote where someone complimented Spiegelman on a particular visual - I want to say it was a caption in the form of a ticket stub or something - and he just took it out completely, because the fact that someone mentioned it means it stuck out. He didn't want anything distracting from the story.