Tracking the Mid-Ohio Incident Story The Comics Journal reported yesterday that Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Executive Director Charles Brownstein was the previously unnamed instigator in a late 2005 after-hours convention incident involving cartoonist Taki Soma that became an Internet rhetoric-producing coal furnace for months afterward, eventually leading to the creation of an empowerment fund by the Friends of Lulu organization. With the story out in the open after both the Empowerment Fund was created and the CBLDF concluded its own investigation into the matter, the news today falls squarely on public reaction to the reveal. To that end:
The Comics Journal reported yesterday that Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Executive Director Charles Brownstein was the previously unnamed instigator in a late 2005 after-hours convention incident involving cartoonist Taki Soma that became an Internet rhetoric-producing coal furnace for months afterward, eventually leading to the creation of an empowerment fund by the Friends of Lulu organization. With the story out in the open after both the Empowerment Fund was created and the CBLDF concluded its own investigation into the matter, the news today falls squarely on public reaction to the reveal. To that end:
