To arms! Wired disses comics!
Tony Long, copy chief at WIRED, comes right out and says it: comics aren't good enough to get nominated for the National Book Award:
Gene...
More from Marshall, MO
Marshall Democrat-News editor Chuck Mason takes a stand:
I'm no legal scholar but there is one thing I do know: censorship is censorship.I have no...
Marshall library update
In case you missed it, The Marshall Democrat-News story on the library board's decision to remove FUN HOME and BLANKETS from shelves until a...
Marshall, MO update
Newsarama has the fullest account:
According to Zack Sims, Staff Writer for the Marshall-Democrat News, the meeting opened with the Board President, in her opening...
Marshall Library decision?
The Marshall, MO school library board voted last night on whether to keep shelving FUN HOME and BLANKETS. At our press time, Tom Spurgeon...
More book banning thoughts
We'd like to take a moment to recognize our regular gallery of posters here at The Beat, and commend them for their insightful...
Marshall, MO final notes
A few items that have drifted in over the day regarding the library cencorship story that everyone is tracking.
One of our correspondents notes...
Removing FUN HOME and BLANKETS
Yesterday we told you about an attempt in Marshall, MO to remove FUN HOME and BLANKETS from the shelves of the library. Now via...
BLANKETS and FUN HOME on hot seat in MISSOURI
A Marshall, Missouri woman has requested that FUN HOME by Alison Bechdel and BLANKETS by Craig Thompson be removed from the library shelves, because...
9/11 COMIC OUTRAGE!!
Are you in the mood for something salty? Because you're going to have to take a grain or two with this one. A story...
