A fundraising campaign seeking to provide students with free copies of Art Spiegelman's Maus has more than tripled and nearly quadrupled its $20,000 goal, having made just over $77,000 at the time of writing.

Nirvana Comics -- a comic book shop based in Knoxville, Tennessee -- launched the GoFundMe campaign on Jan. 28, with the goal of providing as many students as possible with copies of Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel, which uses postmodernist illustrations to tell the story of the Holocaust. The campaign was launched in response to the news that the McMinn County Board of Education in Tennessee had unanimously voted to ban Maus from its 8th grade curriculum on Jan. 26, claiming the book to be age-inappropriate.