5. "Just lines on paper" defense ignores power of cartoons to not just articulate but also create & reinforce bigotry.
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6. But the call to ban images is wrong response for variety of reasons: not just censorship but doesn't really undo underlying bigotry.
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7. Unlike virtually all other North American publications, Harper's and Spiegelman reprinted Danish Mohammed cartoons. To their credit.
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8. But Spiegelman didn't just reprint images in idiotic way of
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9. By combining reprinting plus critique, Spiegelman showed path out of this problem: bad speech has to be answered by more speech.
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10. Refusal to reprinting offending cartoons creates all sorts of paradoxes. Among other things, they imbue forbidden images with more power
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11. A cartoon you're not allowed to see is like the name of God you aren't allowed to pronounce. It acquires the dread of the sacred.
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12. Spiegelman's superb essay underscores something that is often forgotten: aside from being a cartoonist, he's super-smart critic.
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13. Spiegelman's essay also reminds us that there's a longstanding cross-pollination between USA underground comics & French cartooning.
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14.Crumb's work was quickly translated into France and gave bolt of energy to French radical cartooning, which was on the rise.
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15. It's hardly an accident that Crumb and his cartoonist wife Aline (every bit as outre as he is) now live in France.
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16. Nor is it an accident that another famous underground cartoonist, Gilbert Shelton of Freak Bros. fame, is also now in France.
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17. Nor is it an accident that Art Spiegelman, who came out of underground comics, is married to French woman,
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