Manga Book Removal Story Continues

The removal from California library shelves of Paul Gravett's heavily illustrated textbook on Manga (Manga -- Sixty Years of Japanese Comics) has reached that expected second stage, where people and organizations criticize the fact the book was taken out of the library and accuse the supervisor who did so of censorship. The good news is that this case was made in very strong fashion by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the response to those points by First District Supervisor Bill Postmus reads as stridently conservative, dismissive and unreasonable. The bad news is that the reporting is still bad enough to call the book a comic book, which has a negative connotation for many when you talk about books worth saving, and that at least this reported objection came from a national organization rather than from other library patrons.

The NCAC's resource page on the matter is here. Paul Gravett is tracking the story here.
 
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