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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2. By "the scandal of comics" I mean the long-running discomfort of comics by the various gatekeepers of culture (clergy, parents, libraries, curators, teachers). There have been periodic anti-comics waves globally for over a century.
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3. Art Spiegelman himself started reading comics during one the big anti-comics purges in the early 1950s: the moral panic that lead to comic book burnings (pushed by PTA & clergy), a Senate investigation of industry & creation of straight-jacket code.pic.twitter.com/xo0pVwTqMc
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4. Spiegelman's own career can be seen as constant reflection of scandal of comics: like many 1950s kids who saw anti-comics purge, he gravitated towards counter-culture, where underground comix were the return of the repressed.
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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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When I was in grade school, the teacher caught someone reading X-Men 94, ripped it up and threw it in the waste basket. We joked that it might become valuable someday…
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That's one reason old comics are worth money! they get thrown away!
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