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Apparently I missed Banned Books Week (the last week of September) and maybe you did too. But we can still celebrate it by reading banned books. ALA put out a list of the Top Ten Banned Graphic Novels. Here goes:
1. Absolute Sandman, by Neil Gaiman – Reasons: Anti-Family, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group
2. Blankets, by Craig Thompson – Reasons: Sexually Explicit content, Other (unspecified)
3. Bone (series), by Jeff Smith – Reasons: Sexually Explicit content, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group, Drugs
4. Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel – Reasons: Sexually Explicit Content
5. Maus, by Art Spiegelman -Reason: Anti Ethnic
6. Pride of Baghdad, by Brian Vaughn – Reasons: Sexually Explicit Content
7. Tank Girl, by Alan Martin & Jamie Hewlitt – Reasons: Nudity and Violence
8. The Dark Knight Strikes Again, by Frank Miller – Reasons: Sexually Explicit Content
9. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier, by Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill – Reasons: Nudity, Sexually Explicit Content and Unsuited to Age Group
10. Watchmen, by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons – Reasons: Unsuited to Age Group
Some quick thoughts:
I wonder if Alan Moore is proud to be on here twice.
Why is sex more damaging to our youth than violence?
Maus is anti-ethnic?
When did good old smooching become sexually explicit?
Labels: baned books, comic, graphic novel, lists
