tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post5011328982676111757..comments2024-03-27T05:22:27.604-05:00Comments on Eddie Campbell: Eddie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02492020671613766729noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-80752173943717506722011-08-09T07:17:55.411-05:002011-08-09T07:17:55.411-05:00"a journo noticing some press release or othe..."a journo noticing some press release or other from Graphic and ringing around the usual loonies till they got a good quote to manufacture outrage around. As it's Sydney, Johnston was likely their first call."<br /><br />Yes indeed (though I believe Johnston's a Queenslander) - remember the same paper tried to gee up outrage against the waste of taxpayers' money on last year's Vivid at the Opera House by ringing up Western Sydney mayors.Chris Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-27436626546211862742011-08-09T05:09:18.471-05:002011-08-09T05:09:18.471-05:00Ignorance never ends.Ignorance never ends.Pepo Pérezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03197611776595524925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-53046480778960950152011-08-09T05:03:33.441-05:002011-08-09T05:03:33.441-05:00What a shame. Maybe the journalist needs some &quo...What a shame. Maybe the journalist needs some "cultured" reference about the work of Crumb to be taken seriously. And perhaps many of Goya's images also couldn't be exposed in Australia.<br /><br />The Austrialian prestigious critic Robert Hugues on Crumb:<br /><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/mar/07/robertcrumb.comics1<br /><br />And:<br /><br />"I think of Crumb as the Bruegel of the second half of the twentieth century. In the first half there was none, but there was one in the second, and is Robert Crumb" <br />(Robert Hughes, in the film "Crumb", 1994)Pepo Pérezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03197611776595524925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-47383576828080783642011-08-09T04:55:12.007-05:002011-08-09T04:55:12.007-05:00i can't even imagine what some would say spani...i can't even imagine what some would say spanish journalists in the same situation...TEBEOBIENhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14774965274740927843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-66015665612513889852011-08-09T04:16:27.720-05:002011-08-09T04:16:27.720-05:00Sorry to be vague, was posting on my phone - shoul...Sorry to be vague, was posting on my phone - should have waited till I got home.<br /><br />My understanding of the Henson case was that a radio host was trying to gin up controversy for several hours before he got someone to bite (Johnston). Would have to check the David Marr book to be sure.<br /><br />I imagine this story is likely to have started the same way, with a journo noticing some press release or other from Graphic and ringing around the usual loonies till they got a good quote to manufacture outrage around. As it's Sydney, Johnston was likely their first call.<br /><br />Not to detract from Eddie's point about Australia - it has had a long tradition of censorship and wowserism. The current computer games hoo-ha is the most recent example I can think of, but we did ban both Lady Chatterley's Lover AND a book about the British trial back in the day. There's bits of deleted Dr Who episodes that only exist because of the TV censors in the sixties...Greg Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02262613527028934169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-77248715439006134682011-08-09T03:01:12.345-05:002011-08-09T03:01:12.345-05:00How upsetting. I thought they've stopped being...<i>How upsetting. I thought they've stopped being so 'prudent' after the From Hell ban.</i><br /><br />As far as I recall, Hetty Johnston didn't work in Customs in WA eleven years ago. And Greg's vague bloviating is in fact on point - she was one of the main agitators behind the Henson affair.Chris Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-10860491915558061572011-08-09T02:47:24.210-05:002011-08-09T02:47:24.210-05:00Also in the news... from GoogleSpain interview to ...Also in the news... from GoogleSpain interview to Eddie Campbell in ADN Newspaper http://www.adn.es/cultura/20110807/NWS-0197-Campbell-Eddie-gangsters-historias-dibujante.htmlAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17020962612435633390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-18429133771170764482011-08-09T02:47:12.533-05:002011-08-09T02:47:12.533-05:00"by the": paper."by the": paper.Greg Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02262613527028934169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-48175526336447949432011-08-09T02:46:09.600-05:002011-08-09T02:46:09.600-05:00Obviously a controversy engineered by the - anyone...Obviously a controversy engineered by the - anyone know the name of the journalist? Shades of Bill Henson.Greg Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02262613527028934169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-37141051788114338742011-08-09T02:43:35.402-05:002011-08-09T02:43:35.402-05:00"I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don..."I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don't want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction...I can get all that at home.” -Beyond The FringeJitteratinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-43564096241845835112011-08-09T00:46:07.313-05:002011-08-09T00:46:07.313-05:00I bought flights and event tickets, and booked a h...I bought flights and event tickets, and booked a hotel in Sydney for the weekend. I'm seriously disappointed/angry about the Crumb situation, but hopefully the rest of it still holds together so I get something out of it, however diminished.Kumar Sivasubramaniannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-47780429106737246452011-08-09T00:29:16.526-05:002011-08-09T00:29:16.526-05:00How upsetting. I thought they've stopped being...How upsetting. I thought they've stopped being so 'prudent' after the From Hell ban.Titahttp://esduren.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-37478680183369328082011-08-09T00:09:31.004-05:002011-08-09T00:09:31.004-05:00I never knew Australia could be a prude.I never knew Australia could be a prude.spacedlawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12462723005560128474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-79179125376629791442011-08-08T22:21:37.277-05:002011-08-08T22:21:37.277-05:00I'll stick that under the main post. Thanks. I...I'll stick that under the main post. Thanks. I was too busy in damage control to fret over the details.Eddie Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02492020671613766729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-77276607046556107972011-08-08T21:54:34.346-05:002011-08-08T21:54:34.346-05:00The original article (shame, shame, shame) that th...The original article (shame, shame, shame) that they're talking about http://bit.ly/n1o0hO as per Dylan Horricks twitter post.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17020962612435633390noreply@blogger.com