Top 10 Banned Comic Books and Graphic Novels

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  • These controversial comics caused an uproar. For this list, we’ll be looking at comics and graphic novels that were outright banned, suppressed or challenged by official bodies at some point. Our countdown includes “This One Summer”, “Sex Criminals”, "Maus", and more! Have you read any of these supposedly taboo books? Let us know in the comments!
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  • @WatchMojo
    @WatchMojo  2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Have you read any of these supposedly taboo books? Let us know in the comments!
    For more Banned content, click here: th-cam.com/video/JQk-XOnn308/w-d-xo.html

    • @CCRhorst
      @CCRhorst 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hey, great video, but I just wanted to make a quick correction. You pronounced Gen wrong. The “G” is not pronounced like “J” like in “Genevieve”, but more like the “G” is like “go”.
      Wasn’t surprised to see it was included in the list, but was glad to see it represented. “Barefoot Gen” and “Maus” are the only two I know and have read from the list.

    • @rakiahbaker5589
      @rakiahbaker5589 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've read Jillian Tamaki's other book Super Mutant Magic Academy. She does great art.

  • @Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache
    @Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache 2 ปีที่แล้ว +654

    I will never not laugh at one of the criticisms for Maus being that it depicted the Holocaust in a violent and unsettling way. I mean, like…yeah. _It was the Holocaust._

    • @lucasokeefe7935
      @lucasokeefe7935 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      High school is the end of the line for a lot of kids in the United States. And you only need a high school diploma or GED to apply for a job as a police officer, soldier, or any number of positions that involve dangerous levels of violence and a keen knowledge of right and wrong.
      It's telling with the amount of horrible shit that goes on in this country how much the people who try and get this stuff 'removed from the curriculum' as some blind jackoff in this thread put it actually care about being or raising good people.

    • @Lamb666
      @Lamb666 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nazis don’t want you bringing up the past. They want to move forward and forget before they decide to make another one.

    • @karaigrayson8198
      @karaigrayson8198 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      True

    • @WolfgangXP65-67
      @WolfgangXP65-67 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Bruh that was much stupider than Mr. Enter's take on Turning Red.

    • @yulb.allwright
      @yulb.allwright 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I get the insensitivity of depicting the Polish people as pig, but everything just comes with the territory of ‘Holocaust’.

  • @firehawk2324
    @firehawk2324 2 ปีที่แล้ว +255

    I was a teenager when Maus came out, and I remember my local library having displayed on the new books table. I was immediately drawn to it and grabbed it. It was such a gripping, deep story and the fact that it was banned recently really angered me. If you love banned books, go buy a copy of Maus.

    • @tianapitesr8553
      @tianapitesr8553 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Got to celebrate it 🤗⚡

    • @WrenFaithBridger
      @WrenFaithBridger 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Even if you don't love banned books, go buy a copy of Maus AND Maus II. I got them both when they first came out (granted, I was almost 30 when the first one came out). While I don't think they should be in middle-school or elementary school libraries (they really put the "graphic" in "Graphic Novel"), I think that kids should be allowed to read them at their parents' discretion. Both of my daughters read them when they were about 14 or 15.

    • @firehawk2324
      @firehawk2324 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@WrenFaithBridger I will definitely be getting them for my daughter to read when she's older.

    • @brokennosedoomguy
      @brokennosedoomguy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ok, you obviously 🙄 know all about the holocaust, like how more died of typhus than murder, how a Jewish person started the communist party of Germany in a fascist country, how a cyanide based pesticide that was in the gas chambers were used to delouse and how also they had running soap water to also delouse, and if you didn’t know already that the ovens were used to burn bodies that were already dead and infested with disease and lice which cause typhus, I’m sure your state enforced holocaust teacher taught you that

    • @brokennosedoomguy
      @brokennosedoomguy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @George Johnson did you know only 1.1 million of the 6 were Jewish

  • @DanVaverick
    @DanVaverick 2 ปีที่แล้ว +150

    I've read Barefoot Gen, Persepolis, and Maus. All three of these books should be kept in schools, at least in the high school criteria. I know Maus and Persepolis has been used for reading material in certain classes, and I think Barefoot Gen should be a part of that too!

    • @fictional-girl_05
      @fictional-girl_05 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I haven't read Maus but I've definitely seen it up in some of the classrooms at my school, but what's funny is that I'd only started seeing it after the controversy started coming out on the news.

    • @DanVaverick
      @DanVaverick 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@fictional-girl_05 You gotta read Maus. It's a great book!

    • @corkycobon1481
      @corkycobon1481 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      100% agree! All 2 of these books should be read with the relevant history portrayed in them in the forefront of the reader's mind. All 3 of them are haunting in their own ways!

    • @CCRhorst
      @CCRhorst 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I agree, there definitely should be more education on what happened with the dropping of the atomic bombs. As shown in the video, Barefoot Gen might be too much of an issue, but John Hershey’s “Hiroshima” (a very good read) would be good. I actually first came across it in a high school text book, but it wasn’t on our reading list. I grew up near Hiroshima and have been to Peace Park multiple times so I learned quite a bit of what happened there, but seeing how little it was covered in the schools I went to after moving back to the States was shocking.

    • @Theteencosplays
      @Theteencosplays 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I’ve read all these books and 100% agree. Especially because so little people know barefoot gen. The way it realistically portrays everything that happened (especially because the author survived the bombing) is honestly insane and is something still relevant with the nuclear weapons being used today.

  • @BlackcatPlayerB
    @BlackcatPlayerB 2 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    We have a phrase here that says "Whoever forgets his history is doomed to repeat it." What a shame that books like Maus are banned

    • @rainforme1850
      @rainforme1850 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That’s exactly why the diary of Anne Frank’s husband bandit some libraries.

  • @kcollier2192
    @kcollier2192 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    The only thing I can say about banning something is that you make it far more likely that someone will go out of their way to find out what all the fuss is about.

    • @BDNeon
      @BDNeon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      There's even a name for that, The Streisand Effect.

  • @jetfowl
    @jetfowl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +116

    Saying that Maus is "too adult-oriented" for high school is saying that teaching about the Holocaust is "too adult-oriented" for high school.
    In other words, it means that the Tennessee school district didn't want to teach children about one of the most defining events of the 20th century.

    • @lucasokeefe7935
      @lucasokeefe7935 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Welcome to the Bible belt, where people gain 16 year old intelligence levels at 21 years of age.

    • @Mortred99
      @Mortred99 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      In other words, you're uninformed. Why would you voice your opinion if you don't have any information on it? "It's better to remain silent and look like a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
      The book wasn't banned. It was removed from the curriculum. They still teach about Holocaust, they just no longer use this one specific book that is still available to students in the library.

    • @jonatikaWwe
      @jonatikaWwe 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@Mortred99 huh interesting there's always something more about kind of stories 🤷

    • @lucasokeefe7935
      @lucasokeefe7935 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@Mortred99 All sources I can find use the words 'ban' or 'banned' specifically. As in, it is forbidden to use the graphic novel as a source for educational purposes within the school districts curriculum. That's not simply 'removed from the curriculum." Why? Because of "swear words," according to the school board.
      Imagine that, banning a book about one of the worst atrocities in hundreds of years in favor of another because of a few 'bad words' that children in high school undoubtedly know of, use on the regular, and in fact would probably benefit from hearing in this context as it would help keep them engaged.
      Maus is one of the best educational tools available to teachers regarding the Holocaust, and it was yanked away because of a few soulless Karens.

    • @Mortred99
      @Mortred99 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lucasokeefe7935 Get out of here with your silly word games. It wasn't banned. It was removed from the curriculum. End of story.
      You can have complaints as for the reasoning for it to not be required as mandatory reading, but do not lie.

  • @choomkatcha
    @choomkatcha 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Persepolis and Maus were and are 2 of my favorite graphic novels ever written, I'm thankful I went to a charter school and had access to these amazing works

  • @otgenesis7410
    @otgenesis7410 2 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    I actually got the chance to read Maus last month. It's a hard read by all sense of the word, but it's intriguing to know the author's parent's experiences during a difficult time.

  • @poketuber9702
    @poketuber9702 2 ปีที่แล้ว +156

    I read Maus in the 8th grade , and read it again , and again , and again . It’s a poignant masterpiece.

    • @PTtoo_official
      @PTtoo_official 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Facts,I didn’t understand it much when I was younger buh as I got older I was shocked,definitely a masterpiece 💯

    • @dandeef598
      @dandeef598 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I have to write a essay for my college english course about the book and am about to be done reading it, was surpsied it was on here and didnt even know the book was banned.

    • @Shadowant25
      @Shadowant25 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I read both Maus 1 &2 when I was younger & I still have them what a fantastic set of books 😩

    • @Harbinger421
      @Harbinger421 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Maus was in my intermediate and high school libraries. Whoever banned this book is a complete muppet. It's a toned down way to teach the younger generation about the horrors of war and the holocaust

    • @Solus3D
      @Solus3D 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Harbinger421 antivaxxers ban the book because the "CRT". White supremacist don like to see them as the bad guys.

  • @eddyviews1427
    @eddyviews1427 2 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    Maus is a must read. I mean yeah, having race depicted as different animals and probably get offended, yet it's an adaptation based on the author's parent's experience and he was looking for how the illustration could stand out.
    When ever I read it, I kept thinking it would be amazing if it's animated or stop motion. Don't know why I thought of a Mel Brook sound a when ever the older father shows up.

    • @BlackLotus30
      @BlackLotus30 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Why would anyone be offended? Maus the way it was made was the perfect way to tell the story of the Holocaust without being too graphic, it was already a hard read can you imagine how that book would be if they had used humans instead of cats and mice.

    • @WrenFaithBridger
      @WrenFaithBridger 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You, too? Me, too! Art's father kind of has that vibe.

  • @BoulevardTrash99
    @BoulevardTrash99 2 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    I live in Athens, TN the city that banned Maus. I've never been so embarrassed of my community in my entire life. And yes I did protest with others to let the book back into the school curriculum.

  • @benwasserman8223
    @benwasserman8223 2 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Complaining about being canceled while canceling Maus for depicting the Holocaust. Yeah my hypocrisy meter just broke.

    • @joecrazy9896
      @joecrazy9896 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      It wasn't banned, just off the required reading list for the unit covering the Holocaust. The students can still get it at the library any time they please.

    • @PIB2000
      @PIB2000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      "Too adult."
      Yet apparently perfectly fine to talk about the Holocaust in history class.

    • @erniereyes1994
      @erniereyes1994 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Who’s complaining about being canceled?

    • @themangoman9315
      @themangoman9315 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@erniereyes1994 conservatives and literally anyone trying to play victim

  • @suespiria9574
    @suespiria9574 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I love how they completely excluded erotic comics meant for adults... Like Morbus Gravis... Those were even banned in Europe because people were paranoid children might get their hands on them.

  • @stephenr.wattsauthor7029
    @stephenr.wattsauthor7029 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    "Mauz" was a really good graphic novel. It was required reading for an English Literature course i took in college, and after reading it I not only gained a whole new understanding of the horrors of the holocaust, but of the fallen nature of humans. Too often, we tend to see people around us who are different as animalistic or sub-human, and not as members of the same species. This, more than anything else, has led to some of the worst atrocities in human history, as well as most of the mass shootings we are seeing recently in the news.

  • @celticpoet21
    @celticpoet21 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I read Maus in college and Grad school. Utterly brilliant!

    • @konnichi_wa
      @konnichi_wa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm not 100% sure but I think I saw some Maus Books in different Comic/ Book Stores here in Germany

  • @matthewtheobald1231
    @matthewtheobald1231 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Censorship is so stupid

  • @atlasprime6193
    @atlasprime6193 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I find it weird that Maus is in the list since I did a report on it back in High School. It was considered to us a very generic comic book. In fact, I choose Maus because it was the only comic book on the list out of all the other books. Reading it, I didn’t see anything new, it was all the materials we learned as basic in history class. Honestly, I had a hard time writing my essay on why this story is needed in our school’s curriculums because it was just too obvious. All I did was just drawing out my thesis until it hits 5 pages, so if you take away all of the glamor and formality of an essay, you basically get a convincing two page papers.
    People are so sensitive these days.

  • @legionaireb
    @legionaireb 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    As a Tennessean, I can confirm Mr. Spiegelman's assessment of many of our school boards.

  • @ithydoodles
    @ithydoodles 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I was a grown adult when I read Barefoot Gen. It's so visually descriptive. I'll never forget the faces and bodies melting.
    I read Maus in late elementary school, early to mid jr high.

    • @eighthdoctor
      @eighthdoctor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      _I'll never forget the faces and bodies melting._
      THIS. I've not read the comic but have seen the animated film based on it; omg never again. There are so many little bits permanently burned into my brain. D:

    • @ithydoodles
      @ithydoodles 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@eighthdoctor and the manga was found at the public library of all places.

  • @scottyi88
    @scottyi88 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    i read Maus in high school during my study hall in my private school i didn't really find it offensive, more like a graphic novel version of Night by Elle Wiesel. The only thing that was kind of offensive is representing the polish as pigs

    • @hungedteddy7971
      @hungedteddy7971 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Depicting the Polish as Pigs was done to reflect the way Poles were treated by the nazis. Basically they were just meat for the Germans as they conquered them.

    • @rimfire8217
      @rimfire8217 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Is Pig a Slur for Polish.

  • @VegasBorn_YT
    @VegasBorn_YT 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Maus was actually one of our required books in my Graphic Novel class lol

  • @laraduff4949
    @laraduff4949 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I read "Persepolis" and "Maus" for my English class in high school. They gave me some true insight into the harsh realities of the real world that nothing else ever did, and really should be read for education. Officials were definitely wrong to ban them

    • @tonebone7449
      @tonebone7449 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You read it in HIGH SCHOOL, not as an 11 year old Middle schooler.

  • @andrewpelechaty7634
    @andrewpelechaty7634 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I remember the “From Hell” graphic novel was a big deal in the early 2000s. It tried to solve the Jack the Ripper mystery and had some extremely violent/gory scenes: definitely not for kids.

  • @Kriss_941
    @Kriss_941 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Studying to become a teacher and well, with English as one of my subjects to be, Maus was actually a part of our curriculum because it's such a great book for use in education. The amount of comments here about having read and written assignments on this graphic novel I guess means a lot of people can attest to just that...
    edit: Persepolis was also on our reading list...

    • @tonebone7449
      @tonebone7449 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was part of your curriculum IN COLLEGE, not Middle School.

    • @Kriss_941
      @Kriss_941 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tonebone7449 you're not the sharpest spoon in the drawer are you? Did you miss the part where I said I'm studying to become a teacher. Maus, and Persepolis, were on the reading list as examples of texts that are great to use in the classroom.

    • @tonebone7449
      @tonebone7449 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Kriss_941 When I was in college (art) we were taught to never use the color green in food packaging. That was a rule. Just because you were taught that does not mean it is correct. And have fun eating with your sharp spoons... what the hell?

    • @Kriss_941
      @Kriss_941 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tonebone7449 feel free to tell me why you shouldn't use Maus or Persepolis in education for, say 9th or 10th grade pupils.
      And also, the spoon thing was just a way of saying you're not particularly sharp, but ironically enough I guess that one flew right over your head...

  • @electrofonickitty823
    @electrofonickitty823 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Maus is a book series I reviewed because of what Tennessee did. I was offended by their actions as I was friends with families who went through the Holocaust and it is something kids need to know about. Maus is an amazing example of ways to discuss it in a manner people can understand

  • @martineldritch
    @martineldritch 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I've read Maus and Persepolis, great reads. Persepolis provides understanding of Persian society, humanizing in American minds what is otherwise cartoonish "axis-of-evil zealots" as depicted by certain politicians and news agencies.

  • @KRAZYKentGamer
    @KRAZYKentGamer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I still have the complete MAUS sitting in my office. This book stuck with me since 7th Grade and ain’t no way it’s leaving my shelf.

  • @breevance1106
    @breevance1106 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    As someone who was fortunate enough to speak with Johny Craig in his later years a number of times about the code and how it affected his life directly, the ongoing fight against censorship in this artwork is infuriating.

    • @jikorijo4516
      @jikorijo4516 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That’s awesome you got to meet Craig. He’s one of my favorite EC Comics writers/artists.

  • @dinomonzon7493
    @dinomonzon7493 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Barefoot Gen was later adapted into an OAV and well received.
    The Elektra: Assassin series was actually mote of an espionage tale- guess that know it all cop was too straightarrow/narrowminded. Shows what holier than thous think they know and love to espouse.
    Maus was cited in Wizard Magazine’s “100 Greatest Graphic Novels of All Time”. How it can be ‘offensive’ is very questionable as George Orwell’s Animal Farm used animals as a pastiche of the Russian Revolution as well.
    As for the use of the swastika- both Marvel and DC Comics have openly had heroes from Captain America and the Sub-Mariner to the Unknown Soldier and Wonder Woman battle the Nazis and the swastika was openly used in the stories. How PC do they want everyone to be?

  • @cherrypie581
    @cherrypie581 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Maus isn’t banned you can buy it from major retailers like Amazon and Barnes N Noble if you so wish to read it. If you want actual banned books there’s the 6 dr Seuss books that are almost impossible to find plus they were removed from school libraries

  • @mikemaresca4999
    @mikemaresca4999 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    'Maus' wasn't banned in Tennessee, it was simply removed from an 8th grade curriculum.

  • @thedowd1414
    @thedowd1414 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In the UK during the 70's ACTION comic was shutdown because it was too graphic. One of the story's was called Hookjaw, a story about a great white shark with a giant hook in its jaw. It contained graphic - for the time - scene's of dismemberment. There was also a Rollerball inspired story with heavy violence.

  • @ShrimpAye
    @ShrimpAye 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I just saw Maus in one of the bookstores here in Germany, I told my sister about it being banned at schools in America. She didn't know what I was talking about, learned something new there, if she even listened to what I was telling her.

  • @1805movie
    @1805movie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Technically speaking, "Fun House" is not a graphic novel; it's a graphic "bio" (or graphic biography). A novel would imply that it's fiction, and this is based on Bechdel's life.

  • @Saiyan_Steph
    @Saiyan_Steph 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I had to read Maus for my English class when I was in yr 9 and write an essay on it.

  • @danpage6907
    @danpage6907 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I've read Fun Home, Barefoot Gen, Persepolis, and Maus. I teach Maus in a private religious high school; my wife teaches Persepolis in the same school. So far, there have been no parental complaints.

  • @kskollections2142
    @kskollections2142 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fascinating! Gonna have to try to find some of these!

  • @erwinisme157
    @erwinisme157 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I like how people are mad about holocaust books and media in general, being UNSETTLING, VIOLENT, forgetting that if you try to put a light hearted twist, those same exact people who say that its unsettling and violent, will get angry that, YOU DIDN'T TELL THE REAL STORY, HOW DARE YOU DISRESPECT THE VICTIMS, YOU SHOULD BE IN PRISON!

  • @ThisGuyWithThatGuy
    @ThisGuyWithThatGuy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Holy crap and I thought we where the only family have the book maus, I have read that novel so many times, it’s crazy to think people aren’t reading this in schools honestly.

  • @costipredoiu
    @costipredoiu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This is stupid. Maus should not be banned, because it teach us a lesson and we should not forget about the horrors that have done Germany.

    • @joecrazy9896
      @joecrazy9896 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It isn't, just not required reading anymore. It was replace with another book covering the Holocaust, and students can still read it at the school library.

    • @shannonrobertson7527
      @shannonrobertson7527 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I just saw one in Walmart on Sunday.

  • @Bigfoot264
    @Bigfoot264 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Maus was base on life experiences of Holocaust survivor who was the father of the man behind Maus
    Edit: Forgot to mention this I have both volumes of Maus in my Graphic novel collection.

  • @ElTio.45-70
    @ElTio.45-70 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Barefoot Gen, Maus, Persepolis, those three I've read. And have all three on my own bookshelf.

  • @BeanMusic07
    @BeanMusic07 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I have read maus before. I got more information about the holocaust that way but what surprised me the most is (correct me if I might be wrong) I think at one point in the 1st or 2nd book, a guard threw a kid against the wall and basically killed him.

  • @iHeartsNostalgiaPit
    @iHeartsNostalgiaPit 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    the school I work at has 3 copies of Maus I after I heard about the bans I decided to take a look at it myself

  • @Von_D
    @Von_D 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I read maus in a college course on comic literature abiut three years ago.

  • @carlosquito3274
    @carlosquito3274 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I read the graphic novel "Maus" back in Roosevelt High School.

  • @cha5
    @cha5 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Maus along with Watchmen & V For Vendetta really changed my perception of what comics were capable of as a medium back in the 1980's.

  • @MikeyFazboi
    @MikeyFazboi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I picked up a copy of Maus from my local Walmart. Needless to say, it's a great story that everyone should read once. It fuckin' sucks that it was banned.

  • @BTLLRD
    @BTLLRD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hadashi no Gen and Maus are awesome and educational stories. I loved them when I was younger

  • @sakurakitsunestar
    @sakurakitsunestar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    In regards to the banning of number one "those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it"

  • @leafiddick2976
    @leafiddick2976 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I read the first installment of Persepolis, and it was a great read.

  • @joecrazy9896
    @joecrazy9896 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    OK this needs correcting, Maus is not a banned book. The Tennessee school board chose to take it off the "required reading" for that unit based entirely on the Holocaust, and was replaced with another book on those horrific events. If someone from the school really wanted to read it, they can still obtain it at the school library because it wasn't "banned".

    • @BoulevardTrash99
      @BoulevardTrash99 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Not true. Do you live in the town? Because I do. And they removed it from the library.and I know this because I have 2 children in school here. Hence BANNED.

    • @ciom9065
      @ciom9065 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It is actually still banned in my little town in Iowa. So even if it’s not banned in one place, it doesn’t mean it isn’t in another or that it wasn’t at one point.

    • @themangoman9315
      @themangoman9315 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why do you care unless you support the removal of the most important books in the past 40 years because a Karan was offended over a swear word?

    • @themangoman9315
      @themangoman9315 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ciom9065 don't use logic with illogical people

  • @MortenEng
    @MortenEng 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love cartoons, comic books and graphic novels.
    I love reading "Maus" and it is one of the important graphic novels to read. I have the original edition and the Norwegian edition because I am Norwegian.
    Art Spiegelman's "Maus" is the important, fascinating graphic novel of all time since "The Diary of Anne Frank".
    "Maus" is interesting and important to read.
    Art Spiegelman is the best and most talented cartoonist and narrator.

  • @strahinjatrajkovic4276
    @strahinjatrajkovic4276 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I am surprised that The Boys or any of Garth Ennis books aren't on the list

  • @sailorjupoak
    @sailorjupoak 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Barefoot Gen is so amazing, and does an amazing job showing not just the horrors of the bombing of Hiroshima, but what happens before and after. The film doesn't do the manga justice.
    Also, recently saw Maus for sale at Walmart.

  • @Itachi45481
    @Itachi45481 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    In 8th grade I needed to do a biography on someone as a book report wasn't exactly into bios but my mom recommended Night by Elie Wiesel because its topic was important I made a poster for the assignment as i was assigned and I put the Nazi symbol on it due to the importance and how much Nazis were in it I was sent to the office due to putting on my poster about the book after the assignment the first time I was generally annoyed about the school systems and book censorship

  • @MichaelTrevinoFan101
    @MichaelTrevinoFan101 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Maus was a summer read for my senior year of high school. Let me tell you everyone got into it and it was great to see people learn more about the holocaust.

  • @danniramey5876
    @danniramey5876 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Funny enough, I actually read the mouse version of the hallowcauset. It was my sister's and I think she had it to read it for a class she had. Though I don't know what happened to the copy she had.

  • @peacekeeperbabe
    @peacekeeperbabe 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    …thanks 4 the reading tips!!!

  • @eerieeric834
    @eerieeric834 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Mouse is a masterpiece and I read it in school once I can’t remember what great but I definitely wrote this once and crazy enough it was a private school no less

  • @NicolasCurcioWriter
    @NicolasCurcioWriter 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Many of the complaining parties hadn't cracked open the book" Pretty much sums up banned books in a nutshell

  • @Idek.at-this.point27
    @Idek.at-this.point27 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Since my parents knew I loved learning about ww2, they gave me both of the graphic novels for Maus. I was in 5th grade. I thought it was an awesome book and gave me a whole new understanding of the war through the eyes of a survivor in an interesting way. I say it shouldn't be banned from schools because it's giving kids a story about someone who went through one of the most horrible wars in history first-handedly. To the people who haven't read it yet, I say it's a must read.

    • @WrenFaithBridger
      @WrenFaithBridger 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I agree. I had a similar interest, but mine was after a conversation with my father's boss' wife when I was a pre-teen. There was a company barbecue, and I was in the food line behind Mrs. S. She was a handsome older woman, very classy, and always wore the most gorgeous long-sleeved blouses. Since it was July, I asked her why she was wearing long sleeves. She smiled & explained that she wore it to cover her concentration camp tattoo...then she showed it to me. The thought of this beautiful, kind woman (and her equally sweet husband) being subject to those horrors was heartbreaking to me, and it fueled the interest of finding out how people could be so cruel to each other.

  • @stormtrooper253
    @stormtrooper253 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    First time I read Maus in our college library, I paused for a minute when I got to the two-panel page when the Jews/mice were getting gassed to death at Auschwitz. It was a lot to take in, but the holocaust did happen and we should keep remembering that it did, however traumatic these events were, lest we repeat them ourselves.

  • @dennisanderson3895
    @dennisanderson3895 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Most may be understood as the material presented being availed to a very generally aged group who may or may not ready to process such material. In that light, some common sense restriction would have been in better order. That #1 slot, Maus yet astounds me. Spiegleman was so brilliant to utilize the anthropomorphic representations for the purpose of taking just enough off of the horror of the reality that the human could take in and process the information! I have complete respect for the Polish people but the choice of porcine images likely reflected the then contemporary capsulized opinion of their government (bear in mind the Pole conductor to helped Art's folks to conceal their IDs on the public train). And to be *shocked* that a book [graphic or otherwise] about the WW2 Holocaust era: Are you flocking whackadoodle? That edition's cover would be explicitly appropriate to utilize the ill-appropriated symbol! Generally: While some common sense is highly suggested, the list illustrates why MORE unrestricted speech is needed, not less.

  • @arashsasani-nilgon2350
    @arashsasani-nilgon2350 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Lmao I remember reading Maus in gr 9, about 14 years ago and this one girl saw me reading it and told me she was polish, I remember being so confused like why are you telling me this 😂 looking back at it, I hope she didn’t think I was some nazi

  • @christopherbonner4454
    @christopherbonner4454 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have seen some comics that would make your blood run cold. Any of the Faust stuff, Veronica, a lot of manga. It’s out there some times you got to dig to get it but it is.

  • @samsignorelli
    @samsignorelli 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Was kinda expecting to see a mention of the "orgy: scene in the original run of ElfQuest...

  • @nathaniel9526
    @nathaniel9526 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The parents concerned about their kids with those comics.. when they basically already know more than what the comics mention (the summer one )

  • @sharmgidly3497
    @sharmgidly3497 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm halfway through and still haven't seen an actual banned one yet

  • @hyperion256
    @hyperion256 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The comics Über and Crossed looking at each other scared☠☠☠😂😂

  • @Paxagt.is_cool
    @Paxagt.is_cool ปีที่แล้ว

    I haven't read Maus but a friend has during class because it is in the class library and it looks amazing.

  • @j-cob98
    @j-cob98 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm surprised CROSSED isn't on the list, I for sure can see that being a controversial and ban able book

  • @xhagast
    @xhagast 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Maus is a great comic (I have it). Schindler's List shows you horror, Maus shows you Poland and the life of Jews there during the war. And then shows you the horror SL didn't. It is a personal story seen through the eyes of a father and a son. To ban it is a crime. And if Poles were made to look bad then it is THEIR shame.

  • @kolomvotos
    @kolomvotos 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I see even watchmojo changed the thumbnail from the Maus cover lol.

  • @kekyointheshitpostingfool7959
    @kekyointheshitpostingfool7959 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My library's tween/teen manga section has JoJo's bizarre adventure phantom blood LMAO. There's literally a human sacrifice in the first page. Danny dying too 😭

  • @sponge260
    @sponge260 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "They took it off the shelves of schools"
    Yeah I'd hope so, Maus is not for kids

  • @wardragonprime
    @wardragonprime 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The highest honor an author can receive is to have written a banned book.

  • @michellerindal8836
    @michellerindal8836 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have both maus books. One of my English teacher told me about them. They tell a story about a saviour

  • @jugandoalogeek
    @jugandoalogeek 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Here, in Perú, we actually got as ''college homework'' to read Maus.

  • @sevms22
    @sevms22 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Banned is a funny word considering my English teacher assigned me a project on Maus in 6th grade, fantastic book

    • @joecrazy9896
      @joecrazy9896 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah it isn't "banned", just off the required reading list for that specific unit.

    • @themangoman9315
      @themangoman9315 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@joecrazy9896that is basically the same thing and it's still being removed for a brain dead reason

    • @themangoman9315
      @themangoman9315 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do you live in Tennessee?

  • @memeisellfandye
    @memeisellfandye 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    A Child's Life and Other Stories by Pheobe Gloeckner.
    Lost Girls by Alan Moore.
    Habibi by Craig Thompson.
    Black Hole by Charles Burns.
    Lucille by Ludovic Debeurme.
    The Pro by Garth Ennis (who also did The Boys).
    The Love and Rockets series by Los Bros Hernandez.
    The Book of Mr. Natural by Robert Crumb.
    The Collected Adventures of Harold Hedd by Rand Holmes.
    Angel Claws by Alejandro Jodorowski.
    The Druuna series by Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri.
    Gullivera by Milo Manera.
    True Porn (an anthology) edited by Greta Christina.
    The Dominant Wives and Other Stories by Eric Stanton.
    Tijuana Bibles: Art and Wit in America's Forbidden Funnies, 1930s-1950s edited by Bob Adelman.
    Bettie Page: Queen of the Nile by Jim Silke.
    Cyanide and Happiness by Kris, Rob, Matt and Dave.
    Cannon by Wally Wood.
    Black Kiss by Howard Chaykin.
    Paying For It by Chester Brown.
    Brat Pack by Rick Veitch.
    Muse by Denis-Pierre Filippi.
    Red Room - by Ed Piskor
    I've also read Persepolis, Maus, Fun Home and several EC Comics Anthologies. I guess Creepy Magazine would be adjacent. You could probably also add Chick tracts to the list.

  • @trexadvent4726
    @trexadvent4726 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can you do top 10 lesser known Members of the X-Men?

  • @stetsonherrick8090
    @stetsonherrick8090 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You'd think Death Note would have made the list for all the outcry the books created in their heyday...

  • @chantellepride6368
    @chantellepride6368 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've read Maus and I cried the first time I read it! It's horrifying because of the Holocaust, but I've read it.

  • @mr.decencykeepinitreal6348
    @mr.decencykeepinitreal6348 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Suggestion: Top 10 characters who are inspired by the Batman.

  • @jaxparrow1794
    @jaxparrow1794 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Maus is a work of art.
    A graphic and detailed testament to the horrors of Auschwitz, Dachau and the prelude to Vladek Spiegelman's time there. Glad he got a good life in Sweden and the US after the war.
    The guy was a badass.

  • @-saltless
    @-saltless 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Im here because of the one twitter pic that had half the books i read as a kid in a barns and novel section called "banned books" lol

  • @josecarbajal5710
    @josecarbajal5710 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I randomly found my maus book in my garage a little while ago

  • @trasegorsuch5140
    @trasegorsuch5140 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Fun Fact: I read Maus for school reasons.

  • @ElMilito89
    @ElMilito89 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    MAUS is a masterpiece….

  • @DKQuagmire
    @DKQuagmire 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    i remember read Maus in a book shop in my town, and thinking, "oh wow, this is deeeeeep!"

  • @anglicalchemist
    @anglicalchemist 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I read Maus when I was in high school since three members of my family served in the war. I have my own copy now and I feel it should not be banned.

  • @baliyae
    @baliyae 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I never read Maus, though I did see a page from it. I don’t remember when I came across it, though.

    • @themangoman9315
      @themangoman9315 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You owe it to yourself to read it I was holding back tears reading it in my opinion it's the single most important comic ever made

  • @timwoods2852
    @timwoods2852 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If we forget our history, we are doomed to repeat it.

  • @NYmomAdrienne3915
    @NYmomAdrienne3915 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’m not a graphic comic type so only read Maus. I like regular novels better as it uses more imagination in my experience. We all like different things

  • @marcoscruz6883
    @marcoscruz6883 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mausoleum was awesome to read it was one of the few graphic novel to read on my own then in school around 10th grade.

  • @derrickhaggard
    @derrickhaggard 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I actually read most of these and liked them because they were awesome comics/graphic novels.

  • @trexadvent4726
    @trexadvent4726 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can you do comic book origin of Marvel's Quasar?

  • @yunbie
    @yunbie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These books were so controversial, that they had to change the thumbnail of this video.