I created another promo for Diagram for Delinquents, our upcoming documentary film on Fredric Wertham and comic books. As I become inspired by things I encounter during the filmmaking process I will use those to create promos. I will post them here and see “what sticks,” as they say. Here is the latest:

. Stephen will be chatting with us about his work and his thoughts on Fredric Wertham and Seduction of the Innocent. What he has unearthed and created so far is an incredible and utterly necessary archive of one of the most important periods of comics history.

To grasp the full depth of what Stephen has done, you must visit seductionoftheinnocent.org.

It was a serendipitous run-in I had to meet Stephen as we were both doing research at the Library of Congress pouring through Wertham’s Papers. We are excited to sit down with him and to see, in-person, the materials he has gathered.

Stephen has been in the trenches doing the arduous research in tracking down the comic books that Wertham quotes and uses illustrations from but did not cite. As you can guess, as a researcher, this is a highly problematic issue with the book.

is currently hard at working trying to capture important interview subjects for the film. We are hoping to sit down with David Hajdu, author of The Ten-Cent Plague, as well as Jim Trombetta, author of The Horror! The Horror!: Comic Books the Government Didn’t Want You to Read!

Hopefully, after Stephen’s interview this week, these updates will start intermixing some footage with these picture updates.

Finally, an animation team is currently creating the first sample of the animated court scenes. I hope to share some of that with you soon!

More in a week!