Maus. If you are unfamiliar, it's considered the first comic novel. It's by Art Spiegelman and is about the Holocaust. It has been banned in many countries, has been burned, hated, misunderstood, and of course it's written by one of those clever Jews. cnn.com/2022/01/27/us/tennes…
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Tennessee just pulled it. Shocked anyone might want to read about what according to many never happened at all? And not just to 6 million Jews but 11 million total lives including elderly, disabled, orphans, sickly, Catholic priests, LGBQT+, Anarchists, Romani, so many others.
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Maus. It is the only Pulitzer Prize winning comic novel for literature in history. That's right: A Pulitzer prize for a work so relevant if you haven't read it now you may never get a chance lest it be banned, banished or buried in its Maus Grave forever.

Jan 27, 2022 · 11:52 PM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag
Back when I was teaching literature and composition, Maus was something I made sure was on the syllabus if I could at all justify it. It’s so powerful and personal and coherent, it defies any genre silo. (And it doesn’t surprise me at all that folks are trying to ban it.)
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I'm so glad it was on your syllabus where relevant! It's banned in Russia, parts of US and elsewhere despite originating as a sanskrit word and is seen on the god Vishnu, can be found in Egypt, Middle East, in the US native art, tiles, ornaments, textiles, etc. Idiocracy again?
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Replying to @mholzschlag
it's such a good read and such a hard read at the same time
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Ever read "The Painted Bird" ???
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