Tuesday, August 12, 2003

Franken vs Fox Let me get this straight - Fox is suing Al Franken?  Hmm...at first glance this seems to be a fairly mundane copyright suit.  Fox wants the "A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" removed as a subtitle from Franken's upcoming book "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them."  Within the written injunction, though, Fox declares that Franken acted with rage towards them at the infamous April correspondents' dinner, and that Franken had also become "increasingly unfunny." This doesn't sound like the Al Franken most of us know and enjoy.  If anything, I think he's been funnier since he started bringing up the hypocracy of the right.  Franken said of the suit,  "As far as the personal attacks go, when I read 'intoxicated or deranged' and 'shrill and unstable' in their complaint, I thought for a moment I was a Fox commentator." 7:57:22 PM    comment []

Read today's Carol Lay comic Check out today's excellent Carol Lay comic. I remember reading about this case a year ago in The Comics Journal.  Apparently, the clerk was convicted for selling an adult comic, kept behind a counter out of the prying eyes of children, to an adult.  I believe this was in Oklahoma.  Ah, good old fashioned values.  You can sell a kid a gun down at the local Wal-Mart store, but you can't sell adult comics to adults.  Comics still struggle under the mistaken assumption that they're meant just for kids.  I'm starting my own meme, and I will repeat it until it's true:  Comics are form, medium, and not genre.  No one ever says that the television is just for kids or the movies are for adults.  Sounds stupid, doesn't it?  Than why is it okay to marginalize comics this way?  7:47:45 PM    comment []

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