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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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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