By Tobias Carroll Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus has, since its initial publication, been lauded for countless things — its harrowing depiction of the Holocaust, its inventiveness with the form and its expansion of what readers could expect from comics. (To say nothing of Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize.) It’s been in the news more recently after a Tennessee school board voted to ban it for reasons that Spiegelman himself described as “daffily myopic.” The outcry surrounding the school board’s decision has prompted countless messages of support — and heightened awareness of Maus, with many wr…