A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
Neil Gaiman
A nice, easy place
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Really? It appears that college campuses are far more antithetical to free speech than comics. Even the most protected speech — political speech.
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He’s referring to comics (especially indie comics) as a target, not as a vehicle, for free speech attacks from outside the business. There have been several in recent years.
It does seem like free speech attacks are getting more frequent and vitriolic.
The attacks on Indie comics are frequent enough they had to setup a dedicated non-profit:
http://cbldf.org/about-2/