Jesus Fucking Christ, A Drawing of a Nude Guy! It's Picasso!! And He's Naked!! How Horrible!! Won't Someone PLEASE Think of the Children?!?!

Tom Sturgeon reports that a comics retailer has been charged with "distributing material depicting nudity" and "distributing obscene material to a minor" after handing out a free comic book that contained an excerpt of this comic. "Distributing material depicting nudity" alone is punishable by 1-3 years in prison and fines of up to $10,000.

Newsarama has further info:

The comic features a variety of stories from the company's line, including an excerpt from Nick Bertozzi's ‘The Salon,’ depicting the first meeting between Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. On three pages of the eight page section, Picasso is depicted in the nude, a factually accurate detail for the period during which the story is set. There is no sexual content in the story. The comic was inadvertently distributed to a minor, whose parent filed a complaint with the police. The age and identity of the minor are unknown. Days later, Gordon Lee, the owner, was arrested.

See the nudity!

Oh God, it's disgusting. I remember when I was a little boy (I was 17) and first saw a drawing of a nude person. It was ghastly. I was scarred, scarred for life. I was just beginning to recover last year, when - WHAM! Janet Jackson suddenly shows part of one of her nipples on national television. Part of a nipple! I wanted to poke my eyes out.

For this reason, Superblog!! would like to announce that you will never see any nudity here, ever. Because we care.

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