[Commons-Law] comics and copyright
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Tijuana bibles were 'cheerfully pornographic and downright illegal' 8 page
cheap comic books that borrowed from comic characters like Minnie Mouse,
Donald Duck, movie stars like Greta Garbo, Mae West, political figures like
Gandhi, Stalin.
"The essential magic of comics is that a few simple words and marks can
conjure up an entire world for a reader to enter and believe in.
Presumably, this is true of erotic comics as well; how else can one explain
the willingness to spend hard Depression-era currency to be aroused by a
very primitively drawn Donald Duck schtupping an ineptly drawn Minnie
Mouse? It's precisely this miraculous ability to suspend disbelief and
temporarily blur Image and Reality that arouses the ire of those
puritanical censors of the Left and Right who can confuse depictions of
rape with actual rape. It's a profound confusion of categories as well as a
scrambling of symptom and cause."
Art Spiegelman(Maus) on the Tijuana Bibles. The rest of the article is
available at
http://www.salon.com/aug97/spieg970819.html
...and for the absolute delicious destruction of teenage innocence(??)and
soda pops in archie comics (and the answer as to what ponytailed betty is
doing wrong) here's the tijuana bible with archie and veronica.
http://tijuanabibles.org/cgi-bin/hazel.cgi?action=detail&item=TB030
Tijuana bibles were 'cheerfully pornographic and downright illegal' 8 page
cheap comic books that borrowed from comic characters like Minnie Mouse,
Donald Duck, movie stars like Greta Garbo, Mae West, political figures like
Gandhi, Stalin.
"The essential magic of comics is that a few simple words and marks can
conjure up an entire world for a reader to enter and believe in.
Presumably, this is true of erotic comics as well; how else can one explain
the willingness to spend hard Depression-era currency to be aroused by a
very primitively drawn Donald Duck schtupping an ineptly drawn Minnie
Mouse? It's precisely this miraculous ability to suspend disbelief and
temporarily blur Image and Reality that arouses the ire of those
puritanical censors of the Left and Right who can confuse depictions of
rape with actual rape. It's a profound confusion of categories as well as a
scrambling of symptom and cause."
Art Spiegelman(Maus) on the Tijuana Bibles. The rest of the article is
available at
http://www.salon.com/aug97/spieg970819.html
...and for the absolute delicious destruction of teenage innocence(??)and
soda pops in archie comics (and the answer as to what ponytailed betty is
doing wrong) here's the tijuana bible with archie and veronica.
http://tijuanabibles.org/cgi-bin/hazel.cgi?action=detail&item=TB030
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