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Young Lions by Blaise Larmee5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() One of the customs officers suspected that Larmee’s novella depicted children engaged in sexual contact, but Neely explained that while the characters appear child-like, the book is actually about young adult artists. “Then two more officers came out, took out everything from the car, every book, opened up suitcases,” says Neely, on the phone from Los Angeles. Larmee’s pencil sketches caught the officer’s attention. But they didn’t anticipate that a customs officer would pull a random selection of books from the car, including the graphic novella Young Lions by Portland artist Blaise Larmee, distributed by Williams’ Sparkplug Comic Books. They were carrying copies of about 30 titles to sell at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, and had carefully prepared all the tax-related paperwork required to cross the border with print merchandise. On May 6, Tom Neely and Dylan Williams’ rental car was pulled over by the Canadian Border Services Agency in Buffalo, N.Y. ![]() ![]() comic publishers who had their books confiscated by Canadian customs officers on suspicion of obscenity. No superheroes came to the rescue of two U.S. ![]()
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