Maus School Ban Inspires CA Retailer to Offer 100 Free Copies to Tennessee Residents
A Tennessee school board's decision to ban the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic Novel Maus from its curriculum has attracted a flurry of online attention, including an act of generosity from one California comic shop owner.
"As I've offered before with other banned comics, I'll donate up to 100 copies of The Complete Maus to any family in the McMinn County area in Tennessee," tweeted Ryan Higgins, owner of Comics Conspiracy in Sunnyvale, California. "Just DM me your address!"
The tweet went viral and has received over 10,000 likes and 3,000 retweets at the time of writing -- including a retweet from CNN anchor Jake Tapper. CBR reached out to Higgins, who said he was "blown away by the response to my offer."
"Already a few dozen kids and parents have replied, and we'll have copies going to them shortly," Higgins said. "It's great to see so many people interested in reading Maus for the first time, but to also see many others willing to provide copies. It's sad that people are still willing to ban ANY book these days, but especially such an important work as Maus. I've made this same offer a few times in the past and had a couple people reach out (recently for Y The Last Man and V For Vendetta being banned in Texas), but this seems to be getting a lot more attention!"
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