Stand Up For Comics!

Virtual Memories: "During our promenade, we stopped by the booth of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which helps defend comic-store owners and publlishers in first-amendment-related cases. The director of the fund chatted with us a while, and told embarrassing stories about cartoonists and other industry figures. The CBLDF was having a fund-raising party that night in our hotel, so we promised to stop in. There are a lot of messed-up legal cases that the fund gets involved in, and which don't get much coverage in the mainstream press. But if they involved prose books instead of comics, you can be sure you'd hear a lot more about them. What I'm saying is, go to the fund's site and contribute a little cash, if you wanna help defend some freedom of speech in this country."


If you believe in comics as a profession, try to make a donation to the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. I did.

Check out this ComicCon convention coverage.

Joe

Trudeau Attacked

The Tattered Coat » Blog Archive » Another One Bites the Dust: "Once upon a time, Garry Trudeau stuck it to The Man through an alternative form of media that the establishment considered trivial and juvenile."


Sounds like this Doonesbury strip on blogging stirred up an awful lot of ire in blogdom.

Joe

How Comics Started--Let's Go Back A Little Further

Superman, Batman & Co: New Comic Book Information - How Did the Comic Book Get Its Start: "How Did the Comic Book Get Its Start
The origins of the comic book are somewhat controversial and perhaps the jury is still out So lets go back to the cartoonish broadsheets of the Middle Ages which were parchment products created by anonymous woodcutters As mass circulation of these broadsheets became possible they soon developed a market particularly at public executions popular events for centuries ugh which drew thousands of happy spectators Many of these spectators would invest in an artists rendering of a hanging or burning and thus making a very lucky day for the broadsheet seller The broadsheet evolved into higherlevel content as humor was introduced "


If you want to get technical, Egyptian hieroglyphics may be as much a forerunner of the modern comic as these broadsheets were.

Joe