TREEHOUSE COMICS PODCAST 7.1: The Lakes Comic Art Festival / Stan Sakai

Logo by Neil Scott.

The new episode of the Treehouse Comics Podcast is now online.
Have a listen here.

From the website:
"Welcome to part one of a special two-part episode about the Lakes Comic Art Festival. Neil Scott and David Robertson discuss a visit to the festival in October 2017.  We cover the controversy in the run up to the festival (for those interested, a useful run-down of the criticism and subsequent Twitter storm can be found here: https://twitter.com/shallowbrigade/status/919318461339316229 )
This episode also features a talk given by the legendary Stan Sakai (Usagi Yojimbo) at the festival.
We also discuss Melinda Gebbie (Lost Girls), the world's greatest comics covers and Mad vs Viz.
Stay posted for part two coming soon!
Cheers for listening :)"

GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL

At the weekend I usually stick up a new page of Berserkotron at Webcomics Nation. My scanner is not working today, so here's something else...

Over at the Backlash website, they've posted an article called The Dangerous Cartoons Act. It's concerns new laws which have come into effect. Have a look here.

From what I can tell, it appears if you have "images" of underage characters engaged in sexual situations you can be fined, put in jail and stuck on the sex offenders list. By "images" it does not necessarily mean photos, it includes drawings - lines on paper. By underage it means "can be construed as underage" by an ignoramus with power.

This applies to England and Wales, so if you have copies of those excellent Robert Crumb comics or Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls, you better keep them well hidden.

Very worrying.