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To: weegee
Most lawyers don't like to defend the comic book industry.....

Maybe someone could re-release "Seduction of the Innocent" and add a chapter about Diana.........

10 posted on 07/17/2003 1:46:20 PM PDT by gdani
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To: gdani
Frederic Wertham, the author of Seduction of the Innocent, later wrote a book about zines (fanzines) and even discussed underground comix.

He discussed the content in Robert Crumb's work for a couple of pages but didn't seem too upset by it.

This was exactly what Diana was doing, self-publishing these grotesque comics. Crumb is a more accomplished artist (although some libs are still outraged by some of his older work which included some incestuous momements, misogyney, and racism). Mike Diana got "caught" doing what he did because he was using his employer's equipment (a school?) to print his works originally.

Even when he later printed his book, he had to hunt around to find a publisher who would print all of the pages.

12 posted on 07/17/2003 2:16:46 PM PDT by weegee
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