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February 14, 2005


Could Certain Comics Be Restricted?

imageAn article in the Baltimore Sun about strangely harsh regulations regarding the publication of dissident authors uses Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis as an example of a book that's sold extremely well providing just such a viewpoint to North American readers curious about the wider world. Given the role that comics can play as underground literature, it would be a great shame were such a law to restrict future works of potentially great value; this seems like a fight worth tracking very closely.
 
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