Tennessee comic to give away copies of Maus after local school drops it

Published: 1 February 2022

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Local community fights back: a church plans to hold a discussion on its themes and a professor intends to offer free classes on it

‘Maus’ giveaway is on as bookstores, professors counter Tennessee school ban (Jerusalem Post)
Nirvana Comics, a comic-book store in Knoxville, announced on social media that it would be giving away copies of Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book to any interested students.

Local community hits back after Tennessee school drops Maus from curriculum (Haaretz)
A nearby comic-book store is pledging to give away the Holocaust book for free to every student in the county, an area church plans to hold a discussion on its themes and a professor intends to offer free classes on it

The ‘Maus’ ban: Yet more historical distortion in the American south (Times of Israel)
In a region rife with Civil War revisionist history, it comes as no surprise that the facts of the Holocaust are now up for debate