What's Wrong?: Explicit Graphic Interpretations Against Censorship - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551521369 ISBN 13: 9781551521367

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2003

Synopsis

What’s Wrong? (which contains sexually explicit content) and its general-themed companion What Right? are graphic interpretations of what it means to live in a society where we presumably enjoy the right to free speech, and what happens when that right is challenged.

What’s Wrong? collects comic art, often satirical, that epitomizes the kinds of materials that are often -censored, and banned, and includes work by such familiar artists as Tom of Finland, Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out For), Richard Moore (Déjà Vu), Roberta Gregory (Bitchy Bitch), Michael Manning (Tranceptor), P. Craig Russell (illustrator for Neil Gaimen’s Murder Mystery), Glen Hanson and Allan Neuwirth (Chelsea Boys), Taylor (Girl) and many others.

A fundraising project for the Little Sister’s Defence Fund (to assist the Vancouver gay and lesbian bookstore’s legal challenge to the customs seizures they’ve been plagued by for the last 15 years), Arsenal Pulp Press is donating all proceeds over and above its production costs, and all individuals involved have donated their time, energy, and creative talents to create two marvelous collections of engaging comic art.

With an introduction by author Mark Macdonald, buyer for Little Sister’s Book & Art Emporium.

Copies of What’s Wrong? will ship individually shrinkwrapped.

Robin Fisher is a comic activist in Vancouver.

About this title

About the Author

Robin Fisher is a comic activist, a girlfriend, a cat owner, a radio dj, a friend, a writer, an occasional student, and a voracious reader. She lives in Vancouver.

Review

A crazy quilt of sexy, kinky, skilled graphic art.
—Xtra! (Xtra!)

Benefiting Little Sister's Defense Fund, this collection of panels and strips ranges from the vanilla to the wickedly perverse. Who should decide when enough is enough? Well, thanks all the same, officer, but not you.
—The Georgia Straight (Georgia Straight)

What's Wrong is a definite who's who of graphic art. . .
—Trade Queer Things (Trade)

[Raises] the fundamental questions behind all of Little Sister's controversies—namely, the nature of obscenity and the rights of the government to censor art.
—Fast Forward (Fast Fwd.)

. . . covers a broad sexual territory. . .
—Echo Magazine (Echo Magazine)

Edition details

• Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1551521369
• ISBN 13: 9781551521367
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Fisher Robin