sfscope.com - 6/29/2009
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Boom! Studios sends word that comics writer Mark Sable was detained by TSA security guards at Los Angeles International Airport this past weekend because he was carrying a script for a new issue of his comic miniseries Unthinkable . Sable was detained while traveling to New York for a ...
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Mark Sable Detained For Writing Comics
Kleefeld on Comics —
... SFScope is reporting that writer Mark Sable was detained by the TSA for carrying a script for the next issue of Unthinkable, his comic about "a government think tank that was tasked with coming up with 9/11-type "unthinkable" terrorist scenarios that now are coming true." ...
Comics artist Mark Sable detained for Unthinkable acts
La Petite Claudine —
... that a comic book could be about anything other than superheroes, let alone that anyone actually wrote scripts for comics.' No lo traduzco porque estoy haciendo la declaración de la renta y porque me da la risa floja. Excelente titular y simpática conclusión la de Mark Sable: 'In the end, I feel my privacy is a small price to pay for educating the government about the medium.' Antes de discutirsela, advirtan porfavor que se trata de un comentario sarcástico. La historia completa, aquí .
Artist Mark Sable Detained By TSA in Los Angeles
The Comic Stop —
Mark Sable, the artist for Boom! Studios title "Unthinkable" was detained by authorities during a recent flight. Guards at the airport discovered the script for "Unthinkable" during a search and pulled him aside for 'extra screening'. The story behind the mini-series is about a government think tank that plans for terrorist scenarios. Mark says he "cooperated politely and tried to explain the irony of the situation" and that "in the end, I feel my privacy is a small price to pay for educating the government about the medium". ...
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