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 Luen Yang is a teacher in the San Francisco Bay...
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 qualms with Louise Mills of Marshall, who objected to the...
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 book policy can be drafted.
Wright proposed the policy during...
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 statement, suggesting that, in light of the recent developments, a...
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 has word that the library voted "against shelving." That's...
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 and informative postings on a variety of topics. If you...
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 that Marshall, MO is where WAITING FOR GUFFMAN was filmed,...
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 comments and email, the followup report on a library...
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 she feels they are inappropriate, writes the Marshall-Democrat News. ...
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 emanating from WENN, the news service that takes out of...
