Spanking Art: Pen-and-ink drawings by two of CF's foremost artists

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In fact, while Stanton usually denied having influenced Ditko’s conception of Spider-Man—“Steve doesn’t like me to talk about him,” he told Theakston, “my contribution to Spider-Man was almost nil”— he sometimes admitted that the web-shooter idea was his. Australia: boys of Frank Dando Sports Academy, one of the last schools using caning in Victoria, 2005

Canada, "the machine" into which prisoners were secured for paddling in Ontario provincial institutions, 1950s (poor-quality photograph) Germany: caning demonstration at the school museum in Sulzbach-Rosenberg, 2008, supposedly representing 1875 South Africa: Shangase, Sibussiso, secondary school principal, caught on hidden camera illegally caning students, 2004 USA: Sorrells, Larry, Missouri school principal, vindicated after paddling girl, 2008 (also video clip)

USA: Zachary, Thomas, elementary school principal in Tennessee accused of assault after paddling student, but later cleared of any wrongdoing, 2008 USA: Weitensteiner, Rev. Joe, leader of boys' ranch in Washington State, pictured in 2002, "legendary in his use of the discipline paddle" over 45 years US Virgin Islands: Teachers demonstrating in protest against the prospect of no longer being allowed to use corporal punishment, 2010 South Korea: senior student adopts the classic Korean position for receiving the cane across seat of trousers, outdoor view

Tuanku Ja'afar Ibni Al-Marhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Sultan of Negeri Sembilan, King of Malaysia 1994-1999, recalls boarding school canings in 1930s Fashanu, John, former UK football star, now 40 in 2003, revisiting school where he was caned in 1977 at age 14 United Kingdom: modern lithograph imagines William Shakespeare about to be birched as a schoolboy, c.1580 Students of Heartland Academy, faith-based Missouri reform school with high level of paddling, 2003UK: Kendrew, Colonel D.A., Commandant of Army Apprentice School, UK, defends policy of caning boys aged 14½ to 17½, 1948 When Jordan objected, a further strip of tape was placed over his mouth, effectively silencing him. USA: Burke, Doug, Texas high-school principal, paddled 12 boys at one go in 1996 for hazing, including senior football stars