Manga book pulled from San Bernadino County, CA Libraries
From ICV2:
Bill Postmus, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of suburban San Bernadino County, California, has ordered the county’s libraries to remove the scholarly text Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics from circulation. He proudly announced the move, calling the book “obscene comics,” on the county’s Website, saying, “That book is absolutely inappropriate for a public library and as soon as I was made aware of it yesterday, I ordered it to be removed immediately.”
The flap started in Victorville, after a 16-year-old checked the book out of the adult section of the library. The teen’s mother “was horrified,” according to a story in the local Desert Dispatch, and wrote a letter to the library asking that the book be removed.
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Manga Censored At Library
Pulling Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics off the library shelf doesn’t make much sense to me….