AUGUSTA, Maine --Finally, a coloring book for children and grandchildren of leftist activists.Just the mention of Chomsky makes me sick to the bone. He is one disgusting madman, just like Bill Ayers, who's sadly getting a comic/graphic novel based on his writings, and the last thing we need is comics about Chomsky. A coloring book is bad news too. And it doesn't matter even if he doesn't draw Chomsky in a costume, the man is already terrible enough.
With 1960s radicals becoming grandparents, Roger Leisner sees a market in the gray ponytail set for his only slightly tongue-in-cheek Noam Chomsky coloring book, which he sells for $5 each. If it's a success, Leisner plans more coloring books, and he may branch out into comic books as well.
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Later, Leisner said he may do a Noam Chomsky comic book, featuring quotes from various talks over the years.
"No, I will not put him in a cape or any other get-up," said Leisner. "A blue workshirt and Levis is good enough for me."
Because if we're going to try and stop the misuse of our favorite comics and their protagonists by the companies that write and publish them, we've got to see what both the printed and online comics news is doing wrong. This blog focuses on both the good and the bad, the newspaper media and the online websites. Unabashedly. Unapologetically. Scanning the media for what's being done right and what's being done wrong.
Sunday, March 01, 2009
A Chomskyite comic in the works?
Ugh, that's just what we don't need. In this fluff-coated AP Wire article published in the Boston Globe, it's told how a leftist in Maine is selling a Noam Chomsky coloring book, and even planning comics of the same: