this news slipped through the cracks last week, but the charges against comics shop owner, Gordon Lee, were dismissed after more than 3 years. let’s here it for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund! below is today’s Shelf Awareness blurb on the news and here’s Neil Gaiman’s journal entry.
After a mistrial and many delays, prosecutors have dismissed all charges against Gordon Lee, the Rome, Ga., comics shop owner who was charged with obscenity for giving a copy of Alternative Comics #2 to a minor during a street fair. The comic book included a depiction of Pablo Picasso nude in a non-sexual context.
Neil Gaiman announced the dismissal at New York Comic Con last week. Charles Brownstein, executive director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which spent $100,000 helping to defend Lee, commented: “This is a victory for Gordon and a victory for comics. For more than three years, the comics world has stood behind Gordon’s innocence and now we are vindicated.”
