http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/10/16/more-from-marshall-mo/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:15:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/10/16/more-from-marshall-mo/#comment-8621 Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:24:25 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/10/16/more-from-marshall-mo/#comment-8621 Glad to see there's a voice of sanity in the town that's prepared to make itself heard. Glad to see there’s a voice of sanity in the town that’s prepared to make itself heard.

]]> http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/10/16/more-from-marshall-mo/#comment-8605 Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:13:50 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/10/16/more-from-marshall-mo/#comment-8605 I skimmed his editorial and didn't see any "even comic books" language, as in "Even comic books deserve First Amendment protection." In other words he treated the two books as he would any other book and without seeming to think his audience had to be jollied along on that point. Which is reassuring as far as public acceptance of the medium goes. (He does make the point that the racy stuff in the Bible seems less threatening because the Bible doesn't necessarily have pictures, but that isn't the same.) I skimmed his editorial and didn’t see any “even comic books” language, as in “Even comic books deserve First Amendment protection.” In other words he treated the two books as he would any other book and without seeming to think his audience had to be jollied along on that point. Which is reassuring as far as public acceptance of the medium goes. (He does make the point that the racy stuff in the Bible seems less threatening because the Bible doesn’t necessarily have pictures, but that isn’t the same.)

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