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When the owners of a Tennessee comics shop learned that a local school board had voted to remove Art Spiegelman's Holocaust classic Maus from its curriculum, they sprang into action with an appeal calling for donations to fund free copies for schoolchildren. Within hours, money started pouring in from all over the world. "We had donations from Israel, the UK and Canada as well as from the US," says Richard Davis, co-owner of Nirvana Comics.