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In case you missed it, I did a special Evil Inc-themed guest strip for my friends Bill and Gene at Unshelved. It's part of their series of "book report" comics. The book that I'm discussing is one that my father-in-law lent to me just before I left for San Diego. The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great American Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America was a tremendous read. It covers the birth of the comic-book industry and its demise at the hands of religious leaders, politicians, and other opinion-makers. Author David Hajdu offers an insightful look at a fascinating time in comic-book history, and a sobering account of the effects of censorship.

Sure, Tales from the Crypt could be pretty spooky back then, but if you want a real chill, go to the last chapter -- a simple list of the names of people who left (or were forced out of) the comic-book industry as the result of the Comics Code Authority and its effect on the comics.

It goes on for pages.

	82% (68)	People over-reacted.
	3% (3)	Those comics deserved to be censored.
	13% (11)	Not on my pull-list, pal.

As you may remember, when I attended New York Comic Con earlier this year, I sat on a panel discussing the future of the comic strip. It consisted of moderator Lee Nordling, author of them seminal Your Career in the Comics; a representative from both King Features Syndicate and Universal Press Syndicate; David Astor, who writes about syndicates for Editor & Publisher magazine; syndicated cartoonist Mark Tatulli and... me. I did my level best to represent the webcomics business model to the best of my ability despite the amount of wishful thinking being pushed as reality by the representatives of the syndicate model who surrounded me.

Well, it has come to my attention that henchman Scott Lincoln, who does Ralf the Destroyer, recorded the panel discussion. You can listen to it here.