Let Neil Gaiman Tell You About Fortunately, The Milk

Neil Gaiman wrote his book Chu’s Day because all of his other children’s books had been rejected by Chinese publishers for having unreliable parental figures, among other things, and he wanted to make a book so adorable they couldn’t possibly reject it. Fortunately, the Milk does not appear to fit into that category, featuring, as it does, a father telling an elaborate story to explain the epic adventure he went on while going to the store for milk. While perhaps Chinese government censors think this sort of thing undermines principles of filial piety, it sounds pretty familiar to me.

Video under the cut for autoplay reasons.

(via USA Today.)

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.

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