ComicCon, the Olympics, and Torture

Posted on September 5, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

What do ComicCon, the Beijing Olympics, and torture have in common? Unfortunately, it’s Chinese comic artist Jingxiong Guo, who was arrested and tortured on his return to China after a visit to the 2007 convention in San Diego. Watch the video for more. Guo fled China for the United States again before the Olympics. Keep [...]

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links for 2008-09-05

Posted on September 5, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough

HOWTO live in a schoolbus – Boing Boing This was all the rage when I was a kid, for many of the same economic reasons. Good times! The Elegant Variation: Present-Tense Fiction Redux Joshua Henkin (Matrimony) is blogging up a storm as a guest on TEV. I can't keep up! But I did catch this [...]

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