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Ryan Higgins owns Comics Conspiracy in Sunnyvale, California, about 40 miles from San Francisco and over 2,400 miles from McMinn County, which banned the books.

After a Tennessee school district unanimously voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, comic book shops across the country have stepped up to offer free copies of the novel to the district's students.

After a Tennessee school district unanimously voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, comic book shops across the country have stepped up to offer free copies of the novel to the district's students.

After a Tennessee school board voted to ban novel based on the Holocaust, comic book store owners are offering copies of the book to local students.

After a Tennessee school board voted to ban a novel about the Holocaust, comic book store owners offer copies to students.

A Tennessee school district's controversial ban on the Holocaust graphic novel Maus appears to have spurred efforts to get copies into the hands of more readers nationwide.

A bookstore owner is offering to send free copies of “Maus” to families residing in the Tennessee county where the Holocaust-themed graphic novel has been banned.

Multiple booksellers are donating copies of the Holocaust graphic novel to students in Tennessee and beyond. Online sales are skyrocketing, too.

Author Art Spiegelman, who compared the Tennessee school board to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, told a news outlet in an email that he was “heartened by reader responses.”