CBR: Permanent Damage - Oct 7, 2009

[CBR News]

This week: underground comics, putting the realism into comics art, and other strolls through the distant past; more missives from the mailbag; plus APE, the Red Squads ride again, other notes, the Comics Cover Challenge, and more.


Full article here (http://comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=23216).

[handrews]

Hi Steven,
I'm the lead programmer for the GCD- thanks for mentioning our new site in your column! And thanks also for understanding that we couldn't fix everything all at once :-)

However, we *did* implement a form of advanced search that would in fact run your "Brubaker" + "Detective Comics" search. See http://www.comics.org/search/advanced/ or click on the "Advanced" link near the regular search boxes in the blue bar at the top of the page (several people have missed that link so we clearly need to make it more visible).

The current form is not the prettiest, and has some fairly ridiculous known bugs and limitations (explained at the top of the page), but it does allow many search combinations. It's the same literal-minded comparison, so you still have to remember whether "All-Star" is hyphenated or not, as making the search more keyword / fuzzy matching-based was beyond what we could do before the old server needed to come down. But we'll get there.

thanks again,
Henry Andrews
GCD Editor / Board Member / Lead Programmer

[Steven Grant]

Cool! I'll be happy to mention that next week. It was the one thing I really felt you were missing.

Also appreciating having all the basic information on one page when you look up a title, rather than having to bounce over two or three pages to get to what you need.

Good job!

- Grant

[mikefalcon]

Potter Stewart (from Wikipedia): "To the lay public, Stewart may be best known for a quotation, or a fragment thereof, from his opinion in the obscenity case of Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964). Stewart wrote in his short concurrence that "hard-core pornography" was hard to define, but that "I know it when I see it."[9] Usually dropped from the quote is the remainder of that sentence, "and the motion picture involved in this case is not that." Justice Stewart went on to defend the movie in question against further censorship. One noted commentator opined that: "This observation summarizes Stewart's judicial philosophy: particularistic, intuitive, and pragmatic."[9] Justice Stewart later recanted this view in Miller v. California, in which he accepted that his prior view was simply untenable."

I think that's the reference point.

Love the column,

Mike Thompson

[Steven Grant]

Yeah, yeah. Thanks.

In context I was thinking Potter Stewart was an artist and I'd never heard of him. Right, Supreme Court. D'oh!

One of those weeks.

- Grant