After a Tennessee school board banned a graphic novel about the Holocaust from local middle schools, comic book store owners from near and far have pledged to send students the book for free.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel"Maus" was banned on January 10 after a unanimous vote by the McMinn County, Tennessee, Board of Education.Politicizing the Holocaust dehumanizes us allWritten by Art Spiegelman,"Maus" tells the story of his parents in the 1940's, following the Jewish family's experience with rising anti-Semitism to their internment at the Auschwitz concentration camp. It depicts the Jewish people as mice and Nazis as cats.
In December, he tweeted out a similar offer after a Texas school district banned the novel"V for Vendetta" and the series"Y: The Last Man".Local comic shop turned lending libraryMcMinn students have also received similar offers from comic lovers a little closer to home.In Knoxville, just north of McMinn County, the Nirvana Comics shop announced it would loan copies of"Maus" to local students.