Missed It: Various News Updates

* charges against the creators of a cartoon cover for the Spanish satirical magazine El Jueves have been reduced. Once facing jail time and fines, artist Guillermo and writer Manel Fontevilla now only face fines.

* this fairly scattered and I'm afraid ineffectual article from the Guardian's book blog weighs in on recent complaints about the sexism in many mainstream superhero comics. I'm never sure there's much to say about these kinds of things but acknowledge the awfulness and buy/complain accordingly. Deciding not to purchase stuff that upsets and even humiliates seems obvious to me. Therefore, it's not surprising that the mini-essay doesn't move the subject much past that stage, either. There's also some fascinating rhetorical work where the writer seems to want the punch of conflating superhero comics with all comics -- which allows you to downplay counter-examples outside the cape and cowl crowd -- but at the same time certainly knows comics are at least as widely defined as to include Joe Matt.

* South African booksellers aren't moving Tintin in the Congo to a different set of shelves, they're dumping it.

* The "at least three" comics previously announced as returning to the LA Daily News in response to fan outcries when they recently dumped ten features has become eight comics restored, Editor & Publisher reports.
 
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