A totanus in the net

Grazie a una segnalazione su Internet.pro ho potuto leggere questo post di Scott Adams.

If you’re reading this on company time, congratulations on beating the system. If you’re reading it on your own time, you really need to find a job where they pay you to do this sort of thing.

Oltre a essere un post meritevole grazie a questo incipit eccezionale, la lettura svela una regola non scritta dell’editoria americana: sembra che non si possa pubblicare una vignetta che mostra una pistola nell’atto di sparare:

The problem is that there’s an unwritten rule in newspaper comics that you can’t show a gun being fired. I knew that, but my editor was new on the job and I thought it was the perfect time to try and slip one through. But his alert assistant thwarted my plan and brought it to the attention of an informal committee of executives to decide how to handle it. The group ruled that the gun could not be shown. The concept of a peace officer gunning down an unarmed suspect was okay, but I couldn’t show the actual gun firing.

WOW! Tipicamente americano, non vi pare? La vignetta però merita particolarmente e allora il papà di Dilbert & Co. ha un’intuizione tanto geniale quanto surreale.
A sparare è una ciambella.

Tutto ok! In stampa!