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Maus - In Defense of Mice and the Need for Depressing Literature

So a school board decided to ban Maus ensuring a surge in sales. I had always intended to discuss Maus but this accelerates my plans. We talk about Maus and the need for literature that makes you uncomfortable by making you confront realities outside your immediately experience.

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The Comics Course

Miskatonic Literature 209: Graphic Literature in Society and History

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Rogan Hamby

In one universe Rogan went to a small library arts college and became a librarian, software dev, father and not a shut in (mostly). But in the universe of the Comics Course Rogan went to Miskatonic University and became a literature professor and now teaches in the remote education department a course about the role of graphic literature in the context of society and history. Welcome!