Grace Ellis, Shae Beagle and Laurenn McCubbin, creative team of the upcoming Moonstruck comic book for Image Comics have posted a critical response to their publisher's handling of two recent controversies regarding the Howard Chaykin comic book Divided States Of Hysteria.
But it's not all words They make a number of pledges to try and make[...]
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Image Comics has just issued the following statement concerning the cover of Divided States of Hysteria #4, a cover image which has caused a great deal of controversy and discussion over the past few days The cover originally meant for Divided States Of Hysteria #6 will now be used on Divided States Of Hysteria #4.
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Bleeding Cool has written extensively about the controversy surrounding Howard Chaykin's Divided States Of Hysteria over the past few weeks The book first came under fire in early June for an interior scene depicting the violent beating of a trans sex worker Then, to close out the month, the book became embroiled in controversy again for[...]
Image Comics has yet to comment on the controversy ignited today over the cover to issue #4 of Howard Chaykin's The Divided States Of Hysteria The graphic cover (view here on Image's website), which shows a brown-skinned man with his genitals mutilated and a racial slur on his shirt hanging by a noose, has been[...]
A comic book they publish, The Divided States of Hysteria by Howard Chaykin, was under fire for offensive content Bleeding Cool's Joe Glass reported at the time:
The first issue of the comic came out this week — the first week of Pride Month — and features a graphic, violent attack on a trans sex worker[...]
The Divided States Of Hysteria #1 by Howard Chaykin seems to have received the benefits of publicity, however negative, selling out from publisher Image Comics, from distributor Diamond Comic Distributors and a fair few comic book stores as well Enough for Image Comics to decide that there is unmet demand and taking the comic to[...]