CBLDF: Gordon Lee Trial Begins Today According to the official Comic Book Legal Defense Fund press release, the Gordon Lee trial is underway this morning, August 15. I would guess some people had it earlier confusing Monday's docket-setting day and then a possible site-related delay of same. The Georgia retailer has suffered a number of charges -- many since dropped -- stemming from an incident whereby an historically accurate and non-sensational visage of a naked Pablo Picasso got into the hands of a child taking advantage of a Halloween-related free comics promotion. Today's litigation is on those that remain. Conclusion by the end of this week seems to be a possibility.
from the eventual book of Nick Bertozzi's strip The Salon; the naked Picasso appeared in an earlier on-line iteration