FFF Results Post #209—Testimony
On Friday, April 30, CR readers werew asked to "Name Five Modern (active 1990-on) Comics Industry Figures Who Would Provide Vastly Entertaining Testimony Were There Another HUAC-Style Committee Hearing On Naughty Comic Books." This is how they responded.
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Tom Spurgeon
1. Alan Moore
2. Gary Groth
3. Dave Sim
4. Jim Blanchard
5. Nabile Hage
1. Fred Hembeck
2. Neal Adams
3. Mike Gold
4. Howard Chaykin
5. Mark Waid
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Dave Knott
* Kevin Eastman
* Charles Brownstein
* Coop
* Bob Fingerman
* Robin Bougie
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Stergios Botzakis
1. Ivan Brunetti
2. Rick Veitch
3. Pete Bagge
4. Bill Willingham
5. Johnny Ryan
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Robert Martin
1. Ted Rall
2. Howard Chaykin
3. Buddy Saunders
4. Mike Diana
5. Eddie Campbell (isn't his always)
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Michael Carens-Nedelsky
1. Neil Gaiman -- if only because I can imagine him saying, in his calm English accent, about giant throbbing cocks have a long history within literature
2. Brian Michael Bendis -- the transcript would be unprintable.
3. Henry Jenkins -- a media scholar at USC who often writes on comics, he's actually made similar testimonies in wake of Columbine. Always always brilliant.
4. Garth Ennis -- "You think that's bad? I rammed a fucking gerbil up a characters ass -- and that was just to start!"
5. Christopher Butcher -- either an exceptionally reasoned but impassioned plea for sense, or an incoherent amount of screaming. Probably the former, but I would pay to see either.
