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Sunday Striker, Stone, And Skottie Young

Published Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:24:39 -0500

The sudden cancellation of the football comic strip in The Sun newspaper has caused various ructions, with the paper being forced to announce

Artist and creator Pete Nash felt he'd run out of ideas for the long-running footie saga and decided to call it a day.

With Nash quoted as saying that he felt "very stifled and constrained" working with The Sun, and expressing a desire to continue the strip on the cinema screen.

Striker famously left the Sun to become its own comic book, replaced in the Sun by the terribly similar The Premier, before the comic folded and the original strip returned. And its sudden disappearance caused a bunch of online panic.

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The Crestview Public Library has come up with a unique response to a parental complaint about an manga volume that a child took out, that contained sexually explicit material.

First they noted that the item in question was stolen rather that taken out from body in question. But now they're celebrating the mood with a Banned Book Week, an exhibition highlighting items that have been banned from various libraries over the year.

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Naturally it was the Comics Critics panel at SPX that has caused the most commentary. More later but, for an indie crowd some seem slightly less tolerant for the extremes of language, with Jeff Stolarcyk twittering;