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| Who would win in a fight? |
| Celaeno |
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| Jak Sacul |
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 Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:49 pm
Hey guys, I've been surfing on the net for an hour or so trying to find some info on Comic Censorship, when I thought, "Hey, why not ask for some help from some of your fellow guild-geeks?"
What I need specifically are links for specific examples of massive censoring, and/or some Morals/lessons commonly taught through a certain title.
I'd greatly apreciate any and all help I could get from you! biggrin
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:34 pm
Alright, well let's see. First I've a question of my own: You stated something about morals or lessons being taught through a certain title? Could you clarify that please?
Next, for a general overview I recommend that you get yourself a copy of Seduction of the Innocent. It's the most famous of the comic book killers and gives a good overview of what people were thinking when they really started to actively censor comics. Keep in mind, that's just a general overview, it is by no means the deffinative. It's the most famous but it's not the spearhead or even the thing that ultimately closed the coffin, it's just the one that got the ost publicity. It'll tell you how comics are trying to subvert the youth of the day into homosexuals, sexual deviants and transvestites. It'll give you a lot of information on the promotion of Communism and teaching girls to be too much like men.
Now, this site will give you the original comics code as it was when it was first created in 1971. There have been subsequent incarnations but they aren't exactly important. I can dig them up for you as well though if you like.
This is a beginning place. Now, what do you want in terms of censorship, because digging through everything I've got will take way too long.
Do you want censorship of comics as it applies to commercialism and social respects (this would be like when the Code was created, to protect people from evil comics. This is the stuff that works on a governmental level)? Do you want information that targets not comics as a whole but people in general in a way that forces creators to censor themselves out of fear (this would mean civil actions against specific artists and writers, including but not limted to the professional circuit. My best info is on the indies though, including Mike Diana, who was convicted of creating "obscene comics" and was sentenced to never draw again. He is subject to random home searches to ensure it)? That one is actually a lot bigger than you think because there are hundreds of civil cases on file where creators are getting attacked for their work. Or do you instead want to focus on the way the government and civil laws censor not the comics themselves, but the sellers of comics (which means that you can make the comic, but no one is allowed to sell it. Exemplified in the Jesus Castillo case, where he was convicted of selling an adult comic to undercover adult cop.)?
I'll pop up here with more information about the early stuff from the Code era, that's all history lesson. I've got a list of authors, articles, etc. But for the recent stuff you're going to have to get specific.
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Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:56 pm
The Comic Book Legal Defence Fund is an excellent resource that goes into great detail in all of the cases that they have been involved in since their founding in 1986.
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Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 12:59 am
Jack the Pewn indeed. stare
I voted for Cel just for that.
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Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:04 am
John Watkins III Jack the Pewn indeed. stare I voted for Cel just for that. still love you, Cos. heart Aaaand I voted Celaeno as well. For other reasons, though. blaugh
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Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 1:43 am
I don't emulate her style just because it's cool. wink
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Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:09 am
I'm still waiting to push the recent stuff until you give me a better idea of what you want, but in the meantime, I can give you a lot of information on the push against comics in the 50s.
If you have AIM or even Trillian I can send you several PDF files that contain transcripts of panels that talk about the censorship of comics and several senate hearings, as well as
Worse to worse, PM me with your email and I'll send them that way.
This is actually an article on the legislation that was being pushed against television in the 50s, but they mention comics several times and compare the two mediums as causing the same problems.
This, is another article for you, far more comic focused.
I'll have more later.
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Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 7:33 pm
Thanks for the links, everyone!
For those of you who weren't sure what I meant about morals in certain titles, allow me to re-state.
What stories/characters promote certain life-lessons? Spider-man, for instance, always talks about responsibility. The X-men show us the evils of predjudice, and so on.
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