MAUS contains several moments of comedy. What is the effect of this humor? Was is inaccurate or wrong of Spiegelman to have included such episodes in his survivor's tale?

Much of the humor is derived from the discourse revealing Vladek's tortured relations with his son. Artie is often at a loss for words as to the things his father says and does. Vladek, for example, can't imagine his son makes money from writing comics, "for this you make a living?' Vladek is prejudice about a black person even though he lived much of his life under prejudice; the irony, which is darkly humorous, is not lost on Artie.