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Earlier this month, a Tennessee school board voted unanimously to ban the teaching of Maus", an iconic graphic novel that depicts the Holocaust, with Jews represented as mice and Nazis as cats. The Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel was published in 1980, written and illustrated by Art Spiegelman. It was removed from McMinn County's curriculum due to complaints over profanity and the depiction of a dead nude mouse -- a scene representative of how Spiegelman's mother died. Ryan Higgins, owner of Sunnyvale's Comics Conspiracy, heard the news and, in a tweet, offered to donate up to 100 copies of Maus" to families in the McMinn County area. His tweet went viral with over 11,700 likes and 3,442 retweets. His shop sold out of the book and received a couple dozen requests for copies of the book from students and parents.
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