At Comics Worth Reading, Johanna Draper Carlson highlights a new Kickstarter being run by the comics site ComicMix, who, as you might recall, settled a lawsuit last year with Dr. Seuss Enterprises over another book they were crowdfunding, Oh, The Places You’ll Boldly Go!
That book mashed up the Seuss book of the (almost) same title with Star Trek characters and themes, but the Seuss estate sued on grounds of both trademark and copyright infringement. The courts dismissed the trademark case in 2017, and in 2019 a judge found the book was sufficiently “transformative” and met the conditions for fair use. The Seuss folks appealed, and the parties settled out of court in October.
End of the story? Oh no, not at all. While conducting research for their case, the ComicMix team discovered that several Seuss stories are now in the public domain, and this book will collect six of them. But don’t take my word for it — you’ll want to visit their Kickstarter page if for no other reason than ComicMix’s Glenn Hauman wrote their whole campaign pitch as a Seuss-esque poem.
That’s worth a few bucks, wouldn’t you say?
So head over to Kickstarter if you’re willing to pay.
