Reading a good book at the moment. The 10 cent plague is a comprehensive history of comic books. In particular the struggles they've had with cencorship. Specifically the 1950s crusade agasint the horror comics publisehd by EC. You can talk all you want about morality, but the problem the stuffed shirts really had with comics is that they were by and for the working class. Comics as a medium has had to fight since its inception for respect and the only real reason why is that they have always been blue collar. Judging by the history books it was rock n roll that changed society in the 50s... I think comics had just as much to do with it. Here's to jazz and comics. The two true American art forms.
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