A Few Notes From Over At The CBLDF Site

I hope the Eisner Awards judges consider the CBLDF site for its best newsgathering category; I think they've done a consistently good job for a few years now. It's focused on a specific kind of news, but a lot of comics news is focused on a specific kind of news. Here are three news briefs that caught my attention on my latest visit.

* Reginald Hudlin has joined the board of directors. That's a really smart get for them, as Hudlin has comics propers out the wazoo and can also supply insight into other media and how they might approach a problem, handle it, or even help.

* an Ecuadorian cartoonist was subject to censorship by a government agency intended to do the opposite, and on top of that received a death threat invoking ISIS and the Charlie Hebdo murders. And you thought you had a bad work week. The open censorship -- attempted and successful -- of cartoonists using the infrastructure of government may be the most depressing thing in the world of free speech because it operates right up against of free speech. Like you can smell a better way of doing things from the middle of these stories. The blunt, ugly, criminal threat speaks for itself.

* meanwhile, the use of Muhammed cartoons to teach the Danish Muhammed cartoons incident has come up. My thought is that general education wouldn't need to include the drawings themselves but that any sort of advance study would. I was horribly against newspapers not publishing them at the time because even though that's an deeply unpleasant thing to do to some of your readers the mission to inform was deeply distorted without those pictures. I'm not sure that's the same with an educational mission, even as backwards as that sounds. I have no confidence that this will be dealt with in a straight-forward, sympathetic yet smart manner.
 
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