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All right, kids, history lesson time.

In 1954, child psychologist Fredric Wertham published his book Seduction of the Innocent, which puts the blame for everything from juvenile crime to athlete's foot squarely on the doorstep of the local boogieman: comic books. This was not entirely a new thing at the time: there had been numerous statements from 'experts' on the degenerate nature of comics in varying medical journals, newspapers, street corners for years prior. But Seduction was the biggest, most organized attack yet on the industry. It was enormously popular. The public began howling for standards and decency in comics, and so the industry decided to muzzle itself before the federales beat them to it.
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Have you ever stopped at a Rest Stop and saw a man that was clearly not traveling anywhere? I seem to run into one all the time. He’s not a motorist or hitch-hiker or trucker or attendant. He’s just some guy who just found himself there and stuck around for the plumbing and soft pretzels.

Kinda like Web cartoonists.
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