Remember the controversy in California over a library copy of Paul Gravett’s splendid Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics? The local paper, the Hesperia Star, does, because it won a regional award from the Society of Professional Journalists for an editorial on the situation:
“If our libraries should be 100 percent sanitized by young children, then let’s get rid of Shakespeare, Chaucer and Hemingway. Let’s not take any chances. Burn the National Geographics before another adolescent sees them.”
Funny how portable that sentiment is.
