Apparently, some folks in San Diego are upset: Looney Tunes Last Supper Parody Draws Complaints | Animation Magazine A parody of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper that features Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes gang on display at the Chuck Jones Gallery in San Diego has drawn a consistent stream of complaints. The San…
She’s baaaaaack. Debbie Schlussel, the woman who claimed you were "probably a moron and a vapid, indecent human being" if you saw Watchmen, now has trained her sights on this Wall Street Journal piece on G. Willow Wilson and her book Air, calling it "ipecac in print". Why? Because Wilson’s a convert to Islam, and…
Hand of God Suspends Homoerotic Scans Daily Comic Book Community: Our research shows that kids who are allowed to read comics are 13% more likely to get infected with gay inducing spirits and have a STD by the time they reach college. Staggeringly, this percentage jumps up to a frightening 34% when teens are allowed…
The message on Live Journal is very simple: Error This journal has been suspended. And with that, it’s gone and the comics community has changed. And before anyone asks, no, Peter David isn’t responsible for drawing attention to the powers that be any more than Dirk Deppey is responsible for posting a link to it…
Today’s installment of comic-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest… * Missed this one in the holiday wackiness: A federal appeals panel said that child pornography is illegal even if the pictures are drawn, affirming the nation’s first conviction under a 2003 federal law against such…
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has defended several arists and retailers in the past. But now, for the first time, they have been called to aid an actual comic book collector. Christopher Handley of Iowa is facing obscenity charges under the PROTECT Act (18 U.S.C. section 14661) for ordering and possessing manga that is…
As reported here on ComicMix last Monday by Matt Raub via AP : “A sheik from Saudi Arabia, a former diplomat posted in Washington, has put out a fatwa on Mickey Mouse, calling him the new enemy of Islam. ‘Mickey Mouse is a soldier of Satan, and everything he touches becomes impure,” said Sheik Muhammad…
All-Star Batman & Robin #10 has caused some controversy since DC Comics announced it was recalling issues scheduled to be on sale today. They described the problem through the Diamond Comics announcement that it was a printing error. Apparently, Frank Miller’s expletive-filled dialogue was intended to be blacked out but the process employed failed to…
There’s a lot of chatter on the net, probably starting from Rich Johnston’s column and now working its way up to Fortune magazine, about how Apple (the computer company, not the comic company of the 90’s– hi, Mike Catron!) has declined to sell P.J. Holden’s Murderdrome comic, which was submitted as an application to be…
After the August issue of DC Comics’ MAD Magazine featured a spoof on consumer electronics retailer Circuit City titled "Sucker City," the retailer’s corporate office had the publication banned from stores, according to a recent report from Associated Press. The ban was lifted a short time later, however, and the store issued an apology to…
Earlier today I told you about the Oklahoma County commissioner who was mailing out a pretty offensive comic book to voters in a last-ditch effort to keep his job amid scandal. Today I bring you a page from his endeavor, which says the commissioner’s challengers are in league with homosexuals and Satan, among others. This…
A couple days ago ComicMix brought you the news that Wal-Mart stores in Texas were stocking the controversial comic book Memin Pinguin, and people were calling racism. The retailer didn’t respond to the article, but now comes word that Wal-Mart will pull the controversial comics off their shelves. The company’s statement: Wal-Mart carries a wide…
