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The Comic That Never Was

Posted by Tim in Work on January 25, 2010 at 9:17 PM.

So as most of you know, I do a weekly Refried comic for games.on.net. My editor found this week’s comic delightful (Pure gold, mate) and in fact liked it so much that he showed it to his manager – which turned out to be a bad move. She decided that it was possibly so contentious that it had to go all the way up the chain to the CEO of Internode to make a decision on – and he said no. Given that its subject matter is a South Australian politician and Internode is an Adelaide-based ISP, they decided it wasn’t a good idea to go upsetting the establishment.

But, under the terms of my contract and as a private citizen of an entirely different state, there’s nothing stopping me from publishing it myself, and a lot of people have been asking for it, so click here and enjoy.

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3 Comments on The Comic That Never Was

  1. Travis says:

    January 26th, 2010 at 6:51 AM

    OMG It is comedy Gold!!!

    Thank you for at least giving it a go Tim!

    It is sort of ironic censoring a cartoon critisising someone for censorship!

  2. Alex says:

    February 5th, 2010 at 7:28 PM

    Wow that’s completely gutless of Internode – there is absolutely no legal reason why they couldn’t publish this – Australian defamation law clearly includes “fair comment” and “satire” as protections, so you’re fine with this comic. Your employers obviously missed this rather crucial detail in their journalism training, if indeed they have any. :P

    Damn excellent comic dude.. :)

  3. James says:

    February 16th, 2010 at 10:48 AM

    I didn’t know that, but I’m glad I do now. Is there an RSS feed or static URL for it?

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