Book ban: "MAUS" Holocaust comic? (video)

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Holocaust graphic novelist Art Spiegelman on Maus and wave of book bans sweeping U.S.

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(Democracy Now!, Feb. 2, 2022) As a wave of book bans sweeps schools and libraries across the United States, Democracy Now! speaks with celebrated graphic novelist Art Spiegelman on a Tennessee school district's recent vote to ban his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus about the extermination of Jews in Germany from its eighth-grade language arts curriculum.

The comic art of Art Spiegelman: MAUS, Crossroads

The novel, which was targeted for profanity and nudity, tells the story of Spiegelman's parents who survived the Holocaust.

Spiegelman says the bills put forth by conservatives are just a "displacement of their own anxieties" and warns of taking away "access to understanding a genocidal system built by fascists and authoritarians" for youth and adults alike.

He also comments on ABC's recent suspension of Whoopi Goldberg for her comments that the Holocaust was "not about race," saying Goldberg deserves to stay on air in light of her apology.

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(wocomoCULTURE, 2/23/21) "MAUS is a comic about a father and son trying to understand each other." At the core of Art Spiegelman's most famous work were countless hours spent talking with his father, who told him the story of his survival. Oddly enough, this was the only time the two spent together without arguing.