UPDATE: Asked for comment about a Tennessee school board banning his book “Maus,” Art Spiegelman sent along this bookmark he designed for Banned Books week
, is the latest in a wave of book banning sweeping the country, particularly school districts in conservative areas.from curricula and school libraries, citing its use of the phrase “God Damn” and its drawings of “naked pictures,” though those are cartoon mice.the Holocaust as it tells the story of author Spiegelman’s father in German concentration camps, with Jews depicted as mice and Nazis as cats.
Asked for comment on Wednesday evening, Spiegelman sent The Daily Beast a bookmark he designed for Banned Books Week a few years ago:
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