Wertham's Revenge: Mental Health, Media, and What Kids Should Read
Saturday, July 25, 202612 PM – 1 PMSan Diego Convention Center — Room 11Comic-Con badge required
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Fredric Wertham's infamous claim back in the 1950s that comics are harmful to kids' mental health has returned. The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund's Jeff Trexler, CBLDF board member and former DC Comics VP Bob Wayne, and forensic psychiatrist Vasilis Pozios explore the revival of this argument in the new wave of comics censorship, what recent lawsuits targeting kids' content online could mean for all comics-related media, and how new research can help us understand why comics are actually a…