Our first major step toward the repeal of the 75+ year old comics ban and establishing "Sacramento Comic Book Week" was a big unanimous success and will now be reviewed by the Mayor and City Council in full in a session likely in January of 2026.

Thanks to the efforts of Councilmember Maple and Councilmember Pluckebaum and their respective staffs, the first stage of review for our proposal was met with a lot of enthusiasm --- including Dave Gull, the Chief of Staff of Councilmember Pluckebaum dressing as Wolverine to make the appeal to shred this law!

My personal highlight was sitting in on the full committee session and seeing how this one hour of business tackled so many topics -- just in this one session of a council committee, the committee worked with the City staff on a wide range of topics from digital billboard laws, housing and zoning updates, waste & recycling updates, and much more; it's amazing to live in a city that works to take on agendas that deal with large, small, and in-between scales to optimistically create brighter tomorrows for all Sacramentans.

We only needed about 10 minutes of this committee's time to move this to vote and get it moving to the next step, which many of the councilmembers on the committee expressed a desire to end this law and thanked me for our collective advocacy and the work to get this to their attention.

While at face, scrubbing a 70+ year old comic book ban may seem small and easy or (even frivolous to some) as City Council item, this is truly standing up in support of free speech at a moment where book bans --especially upon comic books-- are on the rise and the use of laws like this have even led to arrests in other parts of the county earlier this month! 

Onward!