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Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (10/12/11)

Each week, Paste reviews the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books....  read more

The Booky Man: Maus... or There's No Place Like Home for the Holocaust

Comic books in their most familiar form—tales of super-heroes and adventurers—sprang from pulp novel potboilers of the 1930s and ‘40s. They were often lurid, licentious, shocking. In fact, by the 1950s, as America focused on the Red Scare and those dirty Commies tunneling like termites under our American way of life, ‘seditious’ comic books grew so popular among impressionable young people that authorities passed laws banning comics… and even burned them....  read more