{"id":13984,"date":"2020-10-28T19:36:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T23:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=13984"},"modified":"2020-11-16T16:21:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T21:21:52","slug":"episode-405-jeff-trexler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-405-jeff-trexler","title":{"rendered":"Episode 405 – Jeff Trexler"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 405:
\nJeff Trexler<\/a><\/p>\n

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“When you think about what law has meant to comics, it isn’t just about censorship. A lot of it is about access, about personal freedom. People want to be able to express themselves, and they want their work to be out there for other people to read.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Lawyer, ethics advisor and comics nerd Jeff Trexler<\/a> joins the show to talk about his new role as Interim Executive Director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund<\/a>. We get into his plans to help rebuild the CBLDF’s reputation and ethics code after the sexual harassment scandal<\/a> of its previous director, his experiences helping people pursue their harassment claims and launching antiharassment campaigns in the fashion world, how the Fund’s role has changed over the decades, and why he’s comfortable with that interim <\/em>title. We also get into his obsessions with comics and design, the broad meaning of First Amendment law<\/a> (and why R Sikoryak<\/a>‘s recent Constitution Illustrated<\/a> should be required reading), how to learn from ethics disasters, how nonprofits can grow and how they can become sclerotic, his childhood McLuhan-inspired interpretation of the theme to the Batman TV show, how our mutual friend Tom Spurgeon<\/a> was the hub of the comics industry, and what it’s been like to live without him. Give it a listen!<\/a><\/p>\n

“One of the things that’s impressed me about the comics community is that they take law seriously.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n