Miscellaneous

The important question is, did Picasso lay some serious pipe?

Probably because I have a gutter mouth and tend to often say some offensive shit (you should've heard the conversation about the Pope and Nazis I started in the office last week), I've always been a big proponent of free speech. And having been a big comics fan as a younger lad, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has been my charity of choice for a while now. For a couple of years, one of the big cases the CBLDF has been helping defend was down in Rome, Georgia. Gordon Lee, a comic store owner, had been giving away free comics as part of Free Comic Book Day, and among the thousands of comics he was handing out, he accidentally included a copy of Alternative Comics #2. In that comic, there was a story about Picasso meeting Beorges Braque, and Picasso is shown as nude in the scene. (You can see some images at the end of this post, after the jump. Since some folks were pissed off at seeing Ann Coulter's "tits" last week -- and really, who wants to even think of that, let alone see it -- I figured you might think Picasso's little brush is NSFW. If nothing else, QuizLaw is accommodating!)

That comic wound up being given out to a kid, and the kid's parents complained to the cops. Lee was arrested, despite admitting it was a mistake and offering a public apology, and he was charged with some felonies and several misdemeanors. The trial has been a three-year mess, but it finally came to an end as the court has dismissed all of the charges against Lee.

Full post as published by Quiz Law on April 21, 2008 (boomark / email).