'We're talking mind control here'

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Larry Welz, the creator of Cherry Poptart, discussed his popular comic book character in a recent issue of The Gauntlet. "There are certain things I don't mess with," Welz wrote. "The biggest one is Cherry's age. The idea is that she's a teenager, right? But if I depict her as being under eighteen, then she's a child... {My publisher} wants me to have her i8n junior college instead of high school. I take my original line of defense which is to be generic It's just a school. Might by [be] a trade school, might be a fucking Vassar. But it makes me wonder...is the act of putting blots of ink on paper that is not even all that white and that vaguely suggests the image of an underage girl having sex equivalent to the act of actually abducting an 11 year old girl, tying her up in the basement and forcing her to shoot videos of it? That's a hideous crime, and anyone who does that should be shot in the head immediately. But what about allowing grown men and women to even think about the idea of an underage girl having sex? When nobody gets hurt in the process? Is that legal? We're talking mind control here."
(No. 4, 1992. The Gauntlet is available from 309 Powell Rd., Springfield, PA. 19064).

source: Quote from Larry Welz; Uncommon Desires Newsletter, Number 10; February-March 1993; Original quote from The Gauntlet, No. 4; 1992