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Unspeakable truths
Yes, at least in this country, Maus is a reference point. What's interesting about the comic described in this post, however, is that it is rather stylistically old-fashioned. Maus has been hailed as one of the great innovations in the genre in marking the move from "comic" to "graphic novel." In opting for a lighter (both literally and figuratively) approach, the creators of this comic made an interesting choice. In this case, form and function are definitely related, as the discussion of the transition to "subject" may indicate. The artistic choices reflect the philosophical approach to the treatment of content--in a way that I regard as kind of strange considering the direction in which most comic artists/illustrators/graphic novels have moved over the last 20 years or so.
And your point about the MTV spots is dead on. In ignoring the fact that the perpetrators were also just like us, the creators of those ads miss what is probably the central point about the Holocaust that should be emphasized. But that fact--the possibility that we could be anything like them (which is, incidentally, a central argument of Giorgio Agamben's)--is something of an unspeakable truth, no?