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Monday, Nov. 26, 2007 - 12:47 a.m.

Good Monday morning, kids.

John and I had a quiet stretch of days in which we slept and overate.

We didn't go near any malls.

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A very peculiar announcement has appeared on Mark Evanier's website about the holiday of National Gorilla Suit Day, and its progenitor, MAD Magazine cartoonist, Don Martin...

(partial quote)...

Don's widow has asked me not to mention him or his holiday and to delete all past mentions of both. I don't fully understand why but I still have (and will always have) the greatest respect for the man...so I've done as she asks.

Ahem. Excuse me... [blink] [blink] ... What????

Allow me to repost the comment I made when the story drifted over onto FARK:

"Don Martin's widow is not protecting copyright by asking that all references to her late husband be deleted from a particular site. If her request had been to remove his cartoons, that would hold some weight in a court of law, if they were reproduced without permission. If she were trying to protect the integrity of the materials related to a potential transfer of reproduction rights, then she would only have the right to ask for the removal of the artwork itself.

Something is very, very wrong here if she's asking for all references to be deleted from Mark Evanier's site; Don Martin is a world-famous cartoonist and has been for a half-century now -- and Mr. Evanier has been nothing but kind in his references to Mr. Martin's body of work. There is absolutely nothing in copyright law that forbids references to copyrighted material. Because he is / was a public figure, people are allowed to refer to Don Martin -- and National Gorilla Suit Day -- if they so choose.

This sounds suspiciously like the kind of paranoia that's associated with the earliest stages of dementia. Either that, or she's gotten a bunch of halfassed legal advice and decided to save the fees and do the legwork herself.

In any event, her actions are not protecting his work, and if anything, the wrong attention is being drawn to this issue."

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Now then.

The more I think about this Don Martin thing, the creepier this seems to me.

Friends, let me tell you about Mark Evanier.

Mark Evanier is a writer. A goddamned excellent one. Where this issue is concerned (and of course most or all of the rest of the time, too) I don't think he just reached forth and wrote whatever fell out of his brain and into his fingertips.

Perhaps this is only my interpretation, but in my opinion, the wording of his post was too careful. I'm of the opinion that he could have spelled things out much more clearly than he did, and perhaps for some reason, he's chosen not to. This is purely speculation on my part, though.

However, the deed is done, and boy on BOY is my curiosity piqued -- and if that was Mr. Evanier's goal, then he succeeded.

As for myself, I haven't decided if I am going to mention Don Martin or the fact that National Gorilla Suit Day falls on January 31st again -- I want to wait and see if there's more information as to why the request was made.

But nobody -- and I mean NOBODY -- can tell me NOT to.

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In the meantime, go shake the snow globe!

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That's enough. Have a good Monday.

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