Harlan Ellison has just sued Fantagraphics Books (and its owners Gary Groth and Kim Thompson) over the upcoming book Comics As Art, which Ellison says defames him.

Fantagraphics announced the suit here, and the full complaint (which, to my eye, appears to have been drafted by Ellison himself rather than by a lawyer) is also online as a PDF file.

Those of you with long memories will be asking yourselves "does this have anything to do with the old Michael Fleisher suit?" Yes, it does. Apparently, that will never go away.