1. The removal of Maus from a Tennessee school board curriculum has to be seen as part of larger trends: the current energized right wing bullying of educators, the wave of challenges to allegedly offensive texts especially graphic novels & the longstanding scandal of comics
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5. The underground comix love of the transgressive (sexual, scatological, psychedelic) has to be seen as part of Oedipal revolt by kids who were mad their parents ripped up their comic books. This Crumb strip from Zap comix makes it pretty explicit.pic.twitter.com/Xw0MyvIQo8
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6. Among that underground cohort, Spiegelman was rare (although not unique) in trying to push the idea of adult comics beyond simple shock of transgression into more formalist attempts to grapple with mature themes: the agenda of RAW, co-founded by Spiegelman &
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7. One irony of all this is that Maus is actually a very discrete & tactful work: Spiegelman uses all sorts of technique (beyond the famous anthropomorphism) to make harsh story comprehensive as a narrative.
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8. I talked with comics scholar
@charleshatfield about Maus, the history of comics censorship, and the inescapable scandal of comics.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-a-brief-history-of-comic?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email …Show this thread
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