‘Magic Tree House’ Author, ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ among hundreds of Tennessee book bans - PEN America
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The removals in Tennessee are the result of a growing political movement to control information through book banning.

Magic Tree House author Mary Pope Osborne, children’s poet Shel Silverstein and Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson have joined Judy Blume, Sarah J. Maas, Eric Carle and Kurt Vonnegut on a mind-boggling list of hundreds of books purged from some Tennessee school libraries.

Calvin reading book and raising eyebrow

  • @the_q@lemmy.zipEnglish
    19•16 hours ago

    Didn’t the conservative crowd popularize the Calvin peeing on XYZ car decal? Ah well… I guess the same folks banning books are just jealous they can’t read.

    • katy ✨English
      25•16 hours ago

      they did it against bill’s wishes, who hated commercialisation.

      • @LilB0kChoy@midwest.socialEnglish
        4•12 hours ago

        Yes, but Bill Waterson was even more reserved than that. I read his biography which was written without his input because he repeatedly refused a request to be interviewed for it.

        He never merchandised Calvin & Hobbes and never licensed it to others. Whenever I hear “reclusive genius” I always think of Bill Waterson.