Newsweek, Time, People, Us, Creative Loafing — Sarah Palin made the cover of them all. And now she's reached the pinnacle of media superstardom: the cover of Tales from the Crypt.
Papercutz, publisher of the comic, is running the Palin illustration on half the covers of its current edition in tandem with a commentary on censorship by the daughter of comics pioneer Bill Gaines (Mad Magazine), who was forced to stop publishing the original Tales in the 1950s in the wake of a Senate inquiry into the link between comics and juvenile delinquency. Cathy Gaines Mifsud's editorial was prompted by the flap over Gov. Palin's inquiries into banning books at the Wasilla Public Library.
"TALES FROM THE CRYPT is not endorsing any political candidates . . . . nor are we attacking any candidates,” Gaines Mifsud says, according to a Papercutz release. She adds, however, that “what usually seems to be behind banning books is an attempt to repress ideas that may offer alternative political views. This is not only un-American — blatantly violating the very concept of free speech — but it is assuming that people are unable to come to their own informed conclusions.”
This article appears in Oct 1-7, 2008.