<br><div><aside class="gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el" aria-label="Video - Holocaust Remembrance Day: A story of survival and love"/><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">After a Tennessee school board voted to ban "Maus," a graphic novel about the Holocaust, comic book store owners in California and Tennessee offered copies of the book to students.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">Ryan Higgins owns Comics Conspiracy in California and <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/RyanHigginsRyan/status/1486484761648328704" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">tweeted</a> that he'd ship 100 copies to families in McMinn County, Tennessee, where the Pulitzer-winning novel is banned.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">Following suit, <a target="_blank" href="https://nirvanacomics.com/" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">Knoxville Nirvana Comics </a>announced it would loan copies of "Maus" to students. The comic store started a GoFundMe page to raise money to donate novels to families. The fundraiser passed its goal of $20,000, receiving more than $101,000 by midday Wednesday.</p><aside class="gnt_em gnt_em_tw" data-g-r="lazy" data-gl-method="loadTwitter" data-v-id="1486484761648328704" aria-label="Twitter Embed"/><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">"Maus" follows a Jewish family's experience with antisemitism and their time at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Jewish people in the novel are depicted as mice, and Nazis are cats. The novel was included in McMinn County's eighth grade English and language arts curriculum.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">Last month, the county school board voted to ban the novel because of <a target="_blank" href="/story/news/nation/2022/01/27/tennessee-school-board-removes-holocaust-mausart-spiegelman/9238478002/" style="background-color:#fff" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">"rough" language and a drawing of a nude woman</a>. </p><aside aria-label="advertisement" class="gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al"/><p class="gnt_ar_b_p"><strong class="gnt_ar_b_al">'Absurd':</strong><a target="_blank" href="/story/news/nation/2022/01/27/tennessee-school-board-removes-holocaust-mausart-spiegelman/9238478002/" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">Author of 'Maus' condemns Tennessee school's decision to pull book on Holocaust</a></p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p"><strong class="gnt_ar_b_al">What's everyone talking about? </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://profile.usatoday.com/newsletters/everyones-talking/" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">Sign up for our trending newsletter to get the latest news</a></p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">Author Art Spiegelman said he was alarmed by the board's decision.</p><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">"This is not about left versus right," Spiegelman told<a target="_blank" href="/story/entertainment/books/2022/01/28/maus-book-banning-tennessee-results-soaring-sales-amazon/9261893002/" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a"> The Tennessean</a>, part of the USA TODAY Network. "This is about a culture war that's gotten totally out of control."</p><aside aria-label="advertisement" class="gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al"/><p class="gnt_ar_b_p">Since offering "Maus" for free, Higgins told <a target="_blank" href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/01/us/comic-store-owners-shipping-maus-trnd/index.html" rel="noopener" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="gnt_ar_b_a">CNN</a> the...</p></div> <style> .wrapper { text-align: center; } </style> <div class="wrapper"> <a class="button" href ="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2022/02/02/maus-stores-send-students-copies-banned-book/9312841002/">Read more <span>➤</span></a> </div>
