“I'm trying to be tolerant to people who possibly may not be Nazis, maybe,' Art Spiegelman said in a CNN interview.
, is the latest in a wave of book banning sweeping the country, particularly school districts in conservative areas.from curricula and school libraries, citing its use of the phrase “God Damn” and its drawings of “naked pictures,” though those are cartoon mice.the Holocaust as it tells the story of author Spiegelman’s father in German concentration camps, with Jews depicted as mice and Nazis as cats.
Asked for comment on Wednesday evening, Spiegelman sent The Daily Beast a bookmark he previously designed for Banned Books Week:“I'm trying to be tolerant to people who possibly may not be Nazis, maybe," Spiegelman said in“Because having read the transcript of the school board meeting, the problem is sort of bigger and stupider than that. They really genuinely focus… on some bad words, like “damn,” he said. “So I'm trying to wrap my brain around it.
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