Comic Transitions: Maus

The six types of comic transitions as explained by Scott McCloud (pg.74) in Understanding Comics are...

1. Moment to Moment

2. Action to Action

3. Subject to Subject

4. Scene to Scene

5. Aspect to Aspect

6. Non Sequitur

In Maus, Art Spiegelman uses moment to moment transition when Vladek is recalling how his father would put him on a diet so that he would appear unhealthy for his army medical examination. (pg.46) Showing his father preventing him from eating so much at the table and then how hungry and exhausted Vladek was and then him being examined by the doctor. 

Use of aspect to aspect with map of Poland to give the reader a better understanding of what Vladak is experiencing as he's recalling memories of traveling during the war. (pg.60)

Spiegelman uses scene to scene transitions each time Vladek begins a story about his past or recalls something about the war. Like when Artie and Vladek are sitting at the table while he is counting all of his pills and medications and he starts to talk about Artie's mother, Mala and then goes into the story about her communist 'boyfriend' before she married him. We shift not only scenes but time periods as well as Vladak tells his story and paints a picture for Artie and us readers. (pg.26-27)

I feel as though Spiegelman uses mostly moment to moment transitions in Maus not only in the memory sequences that Vladek is telling his son Artie about but also in the present day dialogue between characters and their interaction. But scene to scene transitions also are required to tell the story in both present day and past time periods. Each time Vladek recalls his past or starts to tell Artie a new story we as readers must "travel back in time" as Vladek tells the story, changing scenes.