Article on Comic Book Burning

JoeSergi

Hi guys,

In my latest effort to get less sleep, I've become a regular contributor for CBLDF. I'll be focussing on the history of comics. My first article is caled "1948: The Year Comics Met Their Match."

Here is the link:

http://cbldf.org/homepage/1948-the-year-comics-met-their-match/

Enjoy

John_Steed

@JoeSergi : nice article - short, comprehensible and important. B-)

random73

Well done!

RobAnderson

Nice job, Joe!

ctowner1

Great stuff, Joe!! Do you do any other stuff for the CBLDF?

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mguy1977

Parents really did have too much time on their hands in the 40s & 50s.

Matthew

ChrisMurrin

Interesting article. Good work, Joe.

Personally, I'd be happy if groups all over the world decide to burn any books I have a hand in creating, because before there can be a book burning, there's gotta be a book buying.

JoeSergi

It's funny you say that. In my research I discovered that when they burned the Davinci Code, the group found the book to be too expensive so they burned photocopies of it. This made me wonder 1) was that really censorship since no books were actually destroyed, and 2) could they have been sued for copyright violation. :-)

Interesting article. Good work, Joe.

Personally, I'd be happy if groups all over the world decide to burn any books I have a hand in creating, because before there can be a book burning, there's gotta be a book buying.

Torchsong

It's funny you say that. In my research I discovered that when they burned the Davinci Code, the group found the book to be too expensive so they burned photocopies of it. This made me wonder 1) was that really censorship since no books were actually destroyed, and 2) could they have been sued for copyright violation. :-)

1) Not censorship in my book, as they're not preventing the books from getting into the hands of people who want them.

2) I think you may be on to something. There's that whole "No part of this book may be reproduced without permission blah blah" clause that's in pretty much every book.

Not to mention the reams of paper they probably went through if they were dumb enough to photocopy the whole book! Oh to be a copyright lawyer at one of these things! "Here's a document I don't recommend you burn, sir. It's a subpoena."

BlackUmbrella

I'd have to say book burning falls into the same category as flag burning. Repugnant, but well within the rights of those doing the burning (assuming the book is theirs to burn).

JoeSergi

Great stuff, Joe!! Do you do any other stuff for the CBLDF?

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I'll be doing some columns on the history of comics and censorship. Here is a previous one I did on an annotated overview of comicbook censorship.

http://cbldf.org/homepage/cbldfs-history-of-comics-censorship-presentation-annotated-by-joe-sergis-cup-of-geek/

Greg

Well done Joe, looking forward to your future articles.