The Latest Breaking News from Art Spiegelman

From Art Spiegelman to Margaret Atwood, books are disappearing from the shelves of American schools. What’s behind the rise in censorship?

LOS ANGELES -- Inside Ryan Higgins' comic book store a few weeks ago, the sounds of British rock blared as a steady stream of customers flipped through issues and picked up their orders.

A school board in Tennessee voted unanimously in favour of removing the graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman from its Grade 8 language arts curriculum in January. Maus is based on interviews with Spiegelman’s father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew and Auschwitz survivor, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992…

Since his early days in the underground comix scene, Spiegelman has reveled in ‘saying the unsayable’ and subverting convention

Two editions of Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel “Maus,” about his parents’ experiences during the Holocaust, have become bestsellers after being banned by a Tennessee school board recently.

Author Art Spiegelman says decision to ban Pulitzer-winning novel that depicts Jewish people as mice and Nazis as cats is ‘demented’

The noble moral crusaders of Tennessee’s McMinn County School Board have voted unanimously to remove Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel “Maus” from its English language curriculum, purportedly over concerns that the earnest and agonizing depiction of Polish Jews (cartoon mice) surviving the Nazis (cartoon cats) contains profanity and brief…

Art Spiegelman has gone public about the latest controversy over books deemed inappropriate for public schoolchildren.

A grim sign of the bureaucratic mentality controlling public education

Author Art Spiegelman said he was ‘baffled’ by the school board’s decision and called it ‘Orwellian’

Banning one of the most famous Holocaust educational works of all time is spawned from the same garbage attacks conservatives used against critical race theory.