Today’s Inside Edition to report on Comic-Con harassment
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Oh my! I've been waiting for the story of cosplay harassment at cons to get more TMZed. According to the above teaser, tonights' Inside...
To do tonight, San Diego: Scott McCloud and Larry Marder on Banned Books Week
It's Banned Books Week, a n annual event mostly held in libraries which spotlights attempts to remove books. This year's theme is graphic novels,...
SDCC ’14: Defending the “Superfan” to the NY Times
As just reported, the NY Times delivered a pretty strong diss to the economics of Comic-Con, and I'm sure con vets and observers will...
Banned Books Week spotlights Comics this year
Every year the Banned Books Week National Committee announces a theme, and for 2014 its comics and graphic novels. The announcement comes in the...
“But where are the conservative mangas and graphic novels?”
A graphic novel is dropping this week called The Forgotten Man Graphic Edition: A New History of the Great Depression . It's a 320...
When a con is…crap
A few days back I ran a rundown of one particularly crowded weekend for comic cons, among them one called SuperFan ComicCon in Toronto,...
She-Hulk v David S Goyer: Dawn of Timeline
In case you missed the Flight 370 of the comics internet, here's a post to get you totally up to speed on the latest...
Bone gives Shades of Grey a run as one of the 10 Most Banned...
If you were to guess what the 10 most banned or challenged books in the US in 2013 were, you might guess 50 Shades...
The day Archie’s publisher put the heat on J. Edgar Hoover over dirty comic...
Back in 1960, Archie Publisher John L. Goldwater told FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover that he was WRONG about dirty comic books
Fun Home called ‘Pornographic’ in South Carolina
A South Carolina watchdog group has criticized the College of Charleston (CofC) in Charleston, South Carolina for choosing Alison Bechdel's award-winning FUN HOME as...
Fallout on the Apple Saga #12 ban
News of Apple's decision to ban SAGA #12 from any app-based storefronts spread like wildfire yesterday, prompting outrage and head shakes from those who...
Persepolis still not being taught to seventh graders in Chicago; students stage sit in...
As we suspected when the news broke, the removal of Persepolis from the seventh grade curriculum at a Chicago high school turned in to a minor media circus pretty quickly, with school officials saying different things all over the place. If you missed all the confusion, the Chicago Tribune
has the authoritative round up and Claire Kirch covers it for PW. Basically it emerged that the book was not being removed from school libraries or all schools, but it is being removed from the 7-10 grade curriculum where it is is currently being taught. The person who seems to have decided that is at the very top: Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennnet who wrote
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