The Looneys Are at it Again

I was catching up on my reading for some of my favorite websites when I saw this article:
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=86984

When are Americans going to remember a little thing called the First Amendment? It shouldn't be hard, it's the FIRST frakkin' amendment!

I haven't read Fun Home, but I have read (and wouldn't mind owning) Blankets. It's a very powerful story about first love, and it's one of the few works of art in any medium that completely brought me back to that time in my own life.

Labelling Blankets pornography is like calling Kangaroo Jack a cultural masterpiece. It's been a year or so since I read it, but from what I remember, there was a short sequence of the two lovers coming together (nothing "major" shown), and from what others have posted after the article, there was a panel of a front view of a nude man.

The book is nothing worse than a PG-13 movie, and is appropriate (and recommended) for anyone teenaged or older.

It's about time that one of the very few American-created artforms starts getting the respect it deserves. Not all comics are for kids anymore.

It's also time to consider it a true artform. If a library can lend out rated R movies, it should have no qualms lending Blankets out.

And to those of you who are still reading and thinking "B.F.D.-- it's a comic book", remember, these people go after the weak artforms first. Comic books are easy pickings because it's still considered by American society to be nothing more than the bastard child of fine art and literature.

What's next? Music (they've already had a battle that could easily be rejoined)? Television (the FCC is already poking around cable networks-- something not in its jurisdiction)? Movies (it's only a matter of time)?

It's time to put a stop to these idiots who can't take responsibility for their own children's reading/viewing habits. And what kid is gonna be ruined for life by reading something so innocent (and great)?

It's time for us to support our libraries and back them on these issues. If libraries lose their nerve (they've been fighting intrusion for years), we will all lose a valuable resource and have our freedom for information diminished. All over some nutcases (seriously, to consider Blankets porn just shows these people have no idea what porn even is).

Finally I'd like to mention how I was able to read the excellent Blankets:

...I borrowed it from my local library.