Update:
Archie Comics, the last remaining subscriber to the Comics Code Authority, dropped their participation.
That's it for the Code. My heart goes out to every cartoonist who lost his or her job in the 1950s when that rat-bastard started dropping its load on the comics medium.
Or, as they say in Oz, "Ding dong, the witch is dead!"
Now back to our previously schedule rant...
Well, it only took 57 years, but DC Comics finally quit the Comics Code Authority.
This useless relic of more paranoid times stifled creativity for much of the past six decades before turning irrelevant as traditional newsstands became quaint relics of the ancient past. Back in the 1950s comic books were equated with juvenile delinquency and were subjected to hysterical editorials in major national magazines and even televised Congressional hearings.
At a time when drug stores, newsstands and candy stores were struggling to stay in...
Archie Comics, the last remaining subscriber to the Comics Code Authority, dropped their participation.
That's it for the Code. My heart goes out to every cartoonist who lost his or her job in the 1950s when that rat-bastard started dropping its load on the comics medium.
Or, as they say in Oz, "Ding dong, the witch is dead!"
Now back to our previously schedule rant...
Well, it only took 57 years, but DC Comics finally quit the Comics Code Authority.
This useless relic of more paranoid times stifled creativity for much of the past six decades before turning irrelevant as traditional newsstands became quaint relics of the ancient past. Back in the 1950s comic books were equated with juvenile delinquency and were subjected to hysterical editorials in major national magazines and even televised Congressional hearings.
At a time when drug stores, newsstands and candy stores were struggling to stay in...
- 1/22/2011
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
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