Robot 6
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Who Is Allah?
Legal | Ong Kian Cheong and his wife Dorothy Chan Hien Leng are on trial in Singapore for allegedly distributing anti-Muslim tracts by Jack Chick.
Prosecutors charge that the comics, The Little Bride and Who Is Allah?, violate Singapore’s Sedition Act and Undesirable Publications Act. [The Straits Times]
Conventions | The 36th annual Angoulême International Comics Festival kicks off tomorrow in Angoulême, France. [The Connexion]
Retailers | Retailer L.E. Becker isn’t happy that Borders Books is carrying the third printing of Amazing Spider-Man #583′s Obama variant cover. [ICv2.com]
Publishing | Jeff Parker, writer of Mysterious the Unfathomable at DC’s Wildstorm imprint, asks, “Why not Wildstorm?” [Parkerspace]
Publishing | Sometimes corporate micro-blogging goes a little wrong. [Kevin Church]
Humor | “Obama Disappointed Cabinet Failed To Understand His Reference To Savage Sword Of Conan #24″ [The Onion]
Humor | “Study: Comic Book Superheroines ‘Improbably Busty’.” [CAP News]
5 Comments
Aqualad
January 28, 2009 at 9:43 am
Retailer L.E. Becker comes across as quite a whiner in his little diatribe.
Carroll
January 28, 2009 at 10:55 am
Jack Chick loves to hate.
Jack Norris
January 28, 2009 at 3:58 pm
I’m torn between:
a) Chick tracts are hate-filled little wads of compressed crazy, and I guess we sometimes forget how nasty and mean-spirited they are in their craziness when we check them out for ironic yucks.
b) Singapore has some flat-out batshit wacko laws, touching on areas of life that it would seem to me should have no relation to the legal system.
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April 7, 2009 at 7:42 am
[...] | The trial continues in Singapore for a married couple accused of distributing anti-Muslim tracts from cartoonist Jack Chick. According to the latest testimony, [...]
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June 10, 2009 at 7:15 am
[...] | A Singapore couple has been sentenced to eight weeks in jail for distributing anti-Muslim comics created by Jack Chick. Ong Kian Cheong, 50, and Dorothy Chan, 46, were found guilty of sedition for [...]