Judge Declares Simpsons Real People?
Okay, maybe not, but it sounds like he said that we can't qualify them in terms of their not being people based solely on their being yellow cartoon creatures with four fingers. Such was part of a tortured-sounding finding that found an Australia man convicted of holding and accessing child pornography based on having a filthy Simpsons cartoon parody on his computer. An ongoing issue in litigation and legislation related to pornography is whether artistic depictions of something can or should be deliberated over as if the fictional constructs are real. This is a notion that should have obvious ramifications in comics stretching back through any number of current artists to things like R. Crumb's 1969 satire "Joe Blow."
