Small-minded ban on Maus backfires: sales are better than ever, and students can get a copy for free

Banning Art Spiegelman's Maus turned out to be great for sales. A silver lining in an otherwise dark age of America.

A week before the school board in McMinn County, Tennessee banned the Pulitzer-prize winning graphic novel – which has been used to teach many 8th–12th graders across America the atrocities of the Holocaust – none of the Maus stories were in the top 1000 books on Amazon, according to Slate. — Read the rest