Ryan Higgins, owner of Comics Conspiracy in California, is shipping copies of “Maus” free to anyone who asks in a Tennessee district where the graphic novel is banned.

Another said banning books should be the least of a school district’s worries: “School shootings, lacking infrastructures, lead in water, underpaid teachers fleeing the profession, outdated curriculum and tech, large class sizes [and] the best we can do is ban a Holocaust book with a nude mouse.”

When thought-provoking comic books and graphic novels are banned, this hits my world,” he said. “Sending out free copies of ‘Maus’ is something I can do. If even one kid reads it and it changes their world, that’s a wonderful thing.”

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Spiegelman, in an interview with The Washington Post, said the problem is much bigger than his books.

Art Spiegelman sees the new ban of his book ‘Maus’ as a ‘red alert’

“This is a red alert. It’s not just: ‘How dare they deny the Holocaust?' ” said Spiegelman, 73. “They’ll deny anything.”

With schools increasingly banning books, he said he viewed the Tennessee school board’s vote as another “harbinger of things to come.”