Welcome to watch mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 band comic books and graphic novels.

It is a true story about the horrors of the holocaust by Art Spiegelman for this list.

We'll be looking at comics and graphic novels that were outright banned, suppressed or challenged by official bodies at some point, have you read any of these supposedly taboo books let us know in the comments number 10 E.

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Comics in 1954 in an effort to prevent their titles from government regulation.

Those involved in comics formed their own regulatory organization, the Comics Code Authority though it was not an official authority, many vendors chose to only carry comics that dons the little white Square E.

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Comics was one of the casualties following the birth of the C C A E C.

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Comics were intended for older audiences and contains tales of horror, crime, war and science fiction.

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Owner William Gaines found it too restricting, eventually shutting down the company entirely.

The last straw for Gaines was the attempted censorship of an african american astronaut in the 1956 comic entitled judgment day number nine.

This one summer Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki.

This one is a little unfortunate because in hindsight the controversy could perhaps have been avoided this one summer drew much positive attention upon its publication and made the short list for the caldecott medal an award given to american Children's books illustrators.

this honor at the school's filling their shelves with copies without considering that caldecott medals extend up to books aimed at the 14 year old age group.

Most past Caldicott honorees have been at the lower end of the age spectrum, thus causing confusion.

This one summer was aimed at 12 to 14 year olds and elementary school parents quickly disapproved of the themes of puberty, drug use, profanity and some sexual references causing it to be removed and or require parental permission number eight electra assassin frank miller.

This comic series was originally released in august of 1986 continuing until March of 1987 in eight issues though the comics were aimed and announced as being so at adult readers, it didn't stop some vendors from getting into hot water.

Michael Correa, a comic store manager in Lansing Illinois, was arrested for displaying what the officer considered to be obscene material.

The arresting officer in question believed that the electra comic contained satanic influences upon hearing this comic illustrators from across the industry rallied together to pay for Korea's legal fees, eventually forming the comic book legal Defense fund or C b L D F Korea was later acquitted of charges number seven Fun home a family tragicomic Alison Bechdel, the multiple award winning graphic novel Fun Home tells the autobiographical story of Alison Bechdel.

Her father was a closeted gay man and the repression and quelling of emotions was felt by Bechtel specifically when she discovered she herself was gay.

The book quickly drew controversy with more than one party referring to it as adult material.

In more than one instance, university students protested the use of the book in post secondary english classes or on suggested reading lists despite efforts by offended parties.

The book remains on shelves and is now a musical as well.

It's an odd thing to protest someone else's reality and all life experiences deserved to be shared, especially when some readers can relate to it.

Number six weird mysteries.

Number five, Bernard bailey in the wake of the aforementioned comics code Authority, many comics were banned for being obscene or otherwise problematic horror themes.

Comics were particularly hit one.

Such comic being weird mysteries.

Number five, the book itself features a number of standard horror stories involving vampires, zombies and the like.

The cover features a colorful, intricate detailing of a brain being removed from a grotesque skull by today's standards.

All is good and even impressive.

However, in the 1950s, this was deemed obscene.

Number five, barefoot gen, Keiji Nakazawa author Keiji Nakazawa was only seven years old when most of his family was killed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima Japan in 1945.

He recounted his childhood experiences in the graphic novel barefoot gen not leaving out any gruesome details or illustrations.

The book did not sit well with some citizens of the Japanese city of Matsui and they challenged his presence in schools and libraries.

The book was in and out of circulation multiple times yet ultimately remained on shelves with schools offering proper educational support for students.

Nakazawa is widow has said that the author's opinion was that he must share with Children accounts of the miseries of the war and the atomic bombing to prevent a recurrence number four sex criminals, Matt fraction and ship it darts ski.

The title of this one should be a glaring hints that the book isn't for Children.

However, nothing can stop the complaints train.

The book depicts a couple who upon sleeping together, realized they can freeze time.

Though the book was challenged multiple times in 2016.

The most memorable problem the comic had was with Apple the tech giant bands.

The second issue of Sex criminal from the comics Ology app back in 2013 citing explicit content.

However, the issue was available on other Apple related sources.

So the entire thing was a little odd.

Perhaps a beef with comics, Ology number three Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi Persepolis tells the story of the author's childhood growing up during the Iranian revolution.

It has been subject to great critical acclaim since its release and has even been turned into an award winning film.

The book was considered controversial in the Middle East but not taken off any shelves in the States, however, is where problems arose.

The main complaint was that the book was Islamic literature and given the sensitive nature of the Islamic reputation in the United States school boards felt it did not belong in their libraries.

The book however, is clearly against fundamentalism.

So we can safely say many of the complaining parties hadn't really cracked open the book.

Number two boiled angel Mike Diana, this one is something in 1991 a California police officer came across a copy of one of the issues of Mike Diana's Boiled Angel series.

Diana publishes a magazine called Boiled Angels.

The story the officer found bore a remarkable resemblance to the Gainesville ripper murders, which at the time were unsolved.

The police then paid Dianna a visit and he briefly became a suspect.

He was ruled out with DNA analysis strike one for boiled angel.

This is hardcore psychopathic material.

The second time the series got him in hot water was when he was charged with obscenity by the state's attorney Stewart bag ish.

He was convicted, became the first artist to be convicted of obscenity in the US.

What happened to him was so profoundly wrong and why the First Amendment is necessary.

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Number one mouse art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer prize winning graphic novel maus has been in the news lately.

However, it isn't the first time the book has been challenged.

There are a number of reasons people were offended by the novel, which perhaps comes with the territory of holocaust themed literature.

Mouse tells the story of author Spiegelman's father's experiences during World War Two.

The different cultures are represented by animals.

For example, Germans as cats, jewish is mice polish as pigs, etcetera.

The book was challenged in California for its depiction of the polish and also pulled from shelves in Russia because of the image of a swastika on the cover.

More recently, a Tennessee School board banned the book claiming it was too adult oriented for use in their schools.

The school board is stupid, but I don't know that they're nazis, I just know that they're stupid.

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