A few years later, Spiegelman joined forces with Bill Griffith to edit Arcade, a publication that featured veteran underground cartoonists like Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton. After his mother committed suicide in 1968, Spiegelman immersed himself in the thriving underground comic scene of the late 1960s. Although his parents survived the Holocaust, his older brother, Richieu, did not. But perhaps its greatest value is in keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive for new generations to understand.Īrt Spiegelman was born in Stockholm in 1948. It has sold millions of copies worldwide, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. Paradoxically, this type of censorship is justified as being for the common good because, we are told, we need to be saved from the unnecessary pain of being exposed to “unacceptable ideas.”īut the censorship of a masterpiece like Maus has only reinforced its moral value. The American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom lists almost 500 publications that have been banned in the various parts of the US, including the award-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the Tintin comics, The Adventures of Captain Underpants, and the classic movie, Gone with the Wind. Recently, a US county school board in Tennessee banned the graphic novel Maus from its libraries and classrooms, citing its use of profanity and depictions of nudity.
It’s not just limited to the rants of millenarian Reich revivalists or racist one-party ideologues. Nazism was defeated in May 1945, but anti-Semitism is alive and well.
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