NEW YORK (AP) Just days after the banning of “Maus” by a Tennessee school district made national news , two editions of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel about the Holocaust have reached the top 20 on Amazon.com and are in limited supply.
There are lessons to be learned from a book-banning attempt in a rural Southern county, and it all somehow relates back to this place, where freedom of expression is always top of mind. Like most such efforts, it has had the absolute opposite effect of what was originally intended.
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.
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.