Plastic Man shredded!

Art Spiegelman's "Jack Cole and Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits" was among the books shredded (whatever happened to burning?) in Houston the other day a group called American Veterans in Domestic Defense.

According to the Houston Voice:

Members of the group are seeking to remove about 70 children’s books from the system’s seven libraries, claiming they contain explicit material not suitable for young children.

They believe the books contain pornographic pictures or promote homosexuality. Fliers with a list of 12 of the 70 books were passed out at the rallies.

...Cabaniss brought copies of Art Speigalman’s (sic) “Plastic Man” to the protest, telling people that the first 60 pages of the book look like a comic book, but the rest of the book has “pictures straight out of Playboy and a group of six or eight couples who are sitting around bored and decide to do wife swapping.”


Sane people should know: Spiegelman's book is a study of Jack Cole's comic art and includes many examples of his work, including his Plastic Man comics, horror and crime comics work and cartoons he produced for Playboy. There's no question about it being a thoughtful work, intended for adults. No secret agenda about it.

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