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More details on the Eightball #22 controversy are available in the New Haven Register. Most interesting to me is the reaction of the father of the unnamed student, who chafes at being viewed as a...
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New York Magazine’s Vulture column picks up on the Eightball kerfuffle: “Having read the comic, which was later included in Clowes’s Pantheon-published graphic novel, Ice Haven, we can say that calling...
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… I’d greet each new day with a handful of Valium washed down with a brimming tumbler of vodka. That’s all I can say with any certainty. I wonder if anyone’s using this Connecticut business to put a...
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The mother of the now-14-year-old girl at the center of the situation in the Connecticut high school visits The Beat to present her side of the story, which is really, really welcome, given some of the...
View ArticleSee no evil, speak no evil
A common thread in many of the discussions about that Eightball business in Connecticut was the level of maturity of the works on the school’s approved reading list. It comes up again in this column...
View ArticleRead the label
Tom Spurgeon points to a manga flap in Lexington, KY, involving a copy of Yuu Watase’s Absolute Boyfriend (from Viz’s Shojo Beat imprint and serialized in the magazine) in the children’s section of a...
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Interesting things I’ve read lately: A roundtable on digital piracy of comics featuring representatives of Fantagraphics, Dark Horse and Top Shelf: It kind of surprises me that Aaron Colter from Dark...
View ArticleAdapt this now
Over at the BBC News web site, Stuart Nicolson looks at a totally fascinating bit of history that involves… well… see for yourself: “Hundreds of children aged from four to 14, some of them armed with...
View ArticleStooping to conquer?
It seems distasteful to ask publishers to license additional titles when so many people are worried that the currently licensed properties will see completion, so I think I’ll put the license requests...
View ArticleI believe the imaginary children are the future
For those who care about such things, which I hope is all of you, the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly has passed its Youth Healthy Development Ordinance Bill, which Tom (The Comics Reporter) Spurgeon...
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