After a Tennessee school board banned 'Maus,' a California comic book store is donating copies
LOS ANGELES -- Inside Ryan Higgins' comic book store a few weeks ago, the sounds of British rock blared as a steady stream of customers flipped through issues and picked up their orders. Some had lined up before the Sunnyvale shop opened in hopes of scoring variant book covers or to pick up the new "Batman Catwoman Special." Less noticed were the pair of copies of the graphic novel "The ...
by Sarah Parvini, Los Angeles Times
Feb 17, 2022
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES -- Inside Ryan Higgins' comic book store a few weeks ago, the sounds of British rock blared as a steady stream of customers flipped through issues and picked up their orders.
Some had lined up before the Sunnyvale shop opened in hopes of scoring variant book covers or to pick up the new "Batman Catwoman Special." Less noticed were the pair of copies of the graphic novel "The Complete Maus" that sat on his shelf.
At least, until about 4 p.m. That's when Higgins learned that a school board in Tennessee had removed from its eighth-grade curriculum the nonfiction book by Art Spiegelman, which depicts interviews that Spiegelman conducted with his
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