I've been wanting to share this moment from the begninning, but could never find a good chance to, since I didn't have the right edit for it. We do now, so here we are. It's time for another example the censorship board stepped in and said No Girls Allowed!
I already talked about The Simpsons in a prior episode or two, but this time we're talking about the comics based off the show. Now, the comics don't completely use the same staff as the show does, so there's bound to be some people involved who thing the comics should work differently from the show.
Case in point, one writer for the show may, in fact, have been an actual pedophile! His work involves Bart in a bunch of compromising positions, like in his underwear in public, or even a lot more nudity than usual. His major claim to fame is "Bart's Day at The Zoo," which sees Bart get trapped in a cage, slowly losing his clothes with every escape attempt, until he is left with nothing. And we see the stuff we usually see of Bart, namely his butt and stuff, while he's clearly embarrassed about the whole thing.
Of course, The Simpsons has historically been known for being preferential in their nudity cases, like how when Lisa shows up in "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid" when the entire rest of town is nude, she has her clothes on. As such, when she gets nude in "Journey to the Cellar of the Kwik-E-Mart", her backside is covered not just by a speech bubble, but by a crate that's clearly an afterthought, the most blatant example of censorship I've ever seen, to the point where I'd say it lands the staff a place in the Coward's Hall of Shame.
So with the help from my artist friend, I was able to remove the crate, and move the speech bubble. Getting this edit to look just right was difficult, since I needed the details to match up exactly. I ended up having to save the file as a compressed JPG, then edit it in post.
The things I have to do to get things just right. And I wouldn't have to do them if they'd gotten it right the first time!