“They want to be able to control what the rest of the people read”: in the USA, more than 10 thousand books have been banned (and comics are a preferred target)

The discussion with various authors at WonderCon 2025, a conference held by the same Comic-Con organizers, was punctuated by recent statistics showing that more than 10,000 books were banned from schools and libraries in the last academic year, 2023-2024. The number of banned books has almost tripled, with a special focus on comics for both children and adults