Okay, so I’m eleven years late on this.

So I was searching through my emails, trying to track down something or ‘nother, when I came across a promotional message sent to the ProgRuin mailboxes back in 2015. Now, I did read it at the time, but of course had no recollection of doing as such over a decade later. And frankly, I’m surprised I didn’t bring it up on the site here, because boy, this sounds interesting. The item promoted? Why, it’s Diagram for Delinquents, a DVD documentary about Dr. Fredric Wertham: Seems unlikely that anyone reading this doesn’t know who he is, but Dr. Wertham was a psychiatrist who worked with poor Black patients, and was influential on the overturning of several segregation laws. Oh, and also he wrote Seduction of the Innocent, a 1954 book that just full-on trashed the comic book industry, attacking the content supposedly being fed to young, impressionable children. The DVD includes lots of period footage and new interviews with comic experts (like Mark Evanier), as well as a bonus feature of an…