History of Manga Book pulled from LA Libraries

In this land of enlightened freedoms the book “Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics” was ordered pulled from the shelves of San Bernardino County libraries according to an article published on the ICv2.com web site.
The decision was the result of a Victorville mother becoming incensed when she saw the “obscene” content of the book her son had checked out from the library.
Rather than place the burden of censorship responsibility on the parents, San Bernardino County officials decided it was best to make this book inaccessible to EVERYONE.
Find the full article on the ICv2.com site.
Link to the book on Amazon.com… if you dare!
April 20th, 2006 at 2:57 pm
[…] Dorian Fahrenheit Digital Galley Cat Hurrikane Japundit, where the comments thread inexplicably devolved into a shouting match about gun control LA COMfidential Mangacast Shush, the only blog that seemed to be OK with the decision to pull the book: It may have been shelved in the adult section but if you’re putting all your comics in the same area that’s not helping much. Plus the content is just a little excessive…: […]
December 8th, 2006 at 7:54 am
(I doubt you’ll ever read this, but)….SB County is so not LA.