Monthly Archives: January 2015

Robert Crumb on the Charlie Hedbo attacks.

From the New York Observer: I’m not going to make a career out of baiting some fucking religious fanatics, you know, by insulting their prophet. I wouldn’t do that. That seems crazy. But then, after they got killed, I just had to draw that cartoon, you know, showing the Prophet. The cartoon I drew shows […]

“Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea! And ideas are bulletproof.”

In a post in 2008, I made note of how harassment of critics made it necessary for those protesting Scientology to protest as Anonymous, the hacker collective who has chosen their public visage to be a Guy Fawkes mask (as depicted in the comic V for Vendetta). All those reasons increase tenfold when such harassment […]