Maus: Comic book stores send students copies of banned Holocaust book
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.
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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.
Art Spiegelman, American author and illustrator whose Holocaust narratives Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History (1986) and Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (1991) helped to establish comic storytelling as a sophisticated adult literary medium.
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.
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.”