Southeast Tennessee’s McMinn County School Board has voted unanimously to ban Art Spiegelman‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus from every school district library. From the Daily Beast: The McMinn County school board’s 10 members voted to axe Maus from curricula and school libraries, citing its use of the phrase “God Damn” and its drawings […]
The Ron Goulart funeral home obituary is up. Mr. Goulart who was born in Berkeley, California was a widely recognized science fiction and mystery writer as well as a comics historian. This seems a good time for a bibliography of Ron’s comics and pulp history books. Cheap Thrills (1972) An Informal History of […]
Tim Newcomb is entitled to his opinion. A Tim Newcomb cartoon about Democratic candidates for Vermont’s U.S. House of Representatives seat has some citizens (and advertisers) calling for a modern day equivalent, as The Times Argus puts it, of the cartoonist being drawn and quartered. Today, Tim finds himself on the end of a pointy […]
I had an odd response to yesterday’s Non Sequitur (AMS) yesterday, or possibly the brilliant inspiration for some kind of dystopian speculative fiction. I suspect the Venn diagram of people who believe in crypto and people who distrust the government has a rather large intersection, given that the appeal of Bitcoins and such appears to […]