LOS ANGELES -- Inside Ryan Higgins' comic book store a few weeks ago, the sounds of British rock blared as a steady stream of customers flipped through issues and picked up their orders.
Some had lined up before the Sunnyvale shop opened in hopes of scoring variant book covers or to pick up the new "Batman Catwoman Special." Less noticed were the pair of copies of the graphic novel "The Complete Maus" that sat on his shelf.
At least, until about 4 p.m. That's when Higgins learned that a school board in Tennessee had removed from its eighth-grade curriculum the nonfiction book by Art Spiegelman, which depicts interviews that Spiegelman conducted with his father, Vladek, and recounts his story as a Holocaust survivor. He tweeted out an offer to donate as many as 100 copies of the book to any family in the Tennessee region where it was banned.
