Maus creator Art Spiegelman recently doubled-down on the fact he has no plans to allow Hollywood to adapt his graphic novel into a flick or TV series, despite the work currently topping a number of best sellers lists thanks to its contempo banning in Tennessee.

The 73-year-old writer and illustrator said at that place has been "no change" to his position on refusing to conform the Pulitzer-winning Maus, telling The Hollywood Reporter, "I like movies, simply Maus is better served as a book. [It's a] more intimate form and comics adhere to the brain better."

Maus, which retells the horrors of the Holocaust by depicting Jewish people as mice and Nazis as cats, was originally published as two volumes in 1986 and 1992. The McMinn County Board of Education in Tennessee recently voted unanimously to pull the graphic novel from its 8th-class curriculum, with critics of the graphic novel citing "rough linguistic communication," nudity and a scene that involved the creative person's mother dying by suicide.

"Why does the educational system promote this kind of stuff, it is non wise or healthy… I am not denying it was horrible, vicious and cruel," one board member said ahead of the vote. "It's like when you're watching TV and a cuss word or nude scene comes on it would be the same motion-picture show without it. Well, this would be the same book without it… If I had a child in the 8th grade, this ain't happening. If I had to move him out and homeschool him or put him somewhere else, this is not happening."

Following the Jan. ten vote in Tennessee, Spiegelman told CNN, "They're totally focused on some bad words that are in the book. 'Damn?' I can't believe the word 'damn' would get the volume jettisoned out of the school on its own, but that's actually where the genuine focus seemed to exist."

It'south worth pointing out that Maus is merely the latest in a serial of books and graphic novels that have been targeted for banning by school districts across the Us in contempo months. Back in November, a Texas school district pulled Jerry Craft's New Kid graphic novel from school libraries.

Released in 2019, New Child follows a young man named Jordan Banks as he deals with the culture shock that comes with being 1 of the but blackness kids attending his prestigious individual school. It was also the offset graphic novel to be awarded the Newberry Medal. Following a 10-twenty-four hour period review period, New Kid was returned to school libraries and saw a major increase in sales as a result of the temporary ban.

Other graphic novels that accept been targeted by book banners in recent years include Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Funhome by Alison Bechdel, This I Summer by Jillian Tamaki and Marika Tamaki, and Drama by Raina Telgemeier.

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Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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