A little too graphic

Do comic books seem to be getting increasingly edgy? Pushing the limits of art and storytelling with their visual depictions? Corrupting young minds?

Well this isn't a new complaint. This site has a general history of comic book censorship through the decades.

http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/09-08-98/alibi_feat2.html

Still going strong, even the history of comics is being challenged and censored. In California, Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics was challenged due to a mother's complaint. Here's some articles collected about this particular case.

http://www.paulgravett.com/articles/041_californiancontroversey/041_californiancontroversey.htm

A book which can be considered an history of a modern art genre is not allowed to be circulated. Next will images of Renaissance art be taken off shelves?

And an article from 1997 about the history and escalation of comic prosecutions:

http://www.awn.com/mag/issue2.4/awm2.4pages/2.4alstonlegal.html

For those interested in looking deeper into this, here's a great bibliography from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

http://www.cbldf.org/research/biblio-30s.html