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When we checked out what Zack Snyder had to share with The Hollywood Reporter in a profile interview in support of his upcoming Netflix film Rebel Moon, we didn't expect to end up posting an update on a possible adaptation of Howard Chaykin's 1988 Vortex Comics series Black Kiss (and possibly its follow-up series, 2012's[...]

However, as I say, this is but a first instance. Jumping ahead a bit, we come to another of Chaykin's works — one mired in such controversy it saw the comic censored and even banned in some countries — Black Kiss It even caused Grant Morrison to refer to it as "adolescent homophobic mummy's boy jerk-off fantasy[...]

What if Charles Burns only wanted to draw vampires killing lots and lots and lots of zombies? This is that comic. The Shadow Midnight in Moscow #2 brings on the grossness too, as Howard Chaykin goes to town. For  a second chapter of Howard Chaykin today, there's also the Black Kiss XXXMas Special, out of season, a[...]

Looks like we may have another fight with UK Customs on our hands! Image Comics are putting out a new Black Kiss Christmas Special by Howard Chaykin...in July. Because… comics. Falalalala lalalala…. Looks like we may have another fight with UK Customs on our hands! Image Comics are putting out a new Black Kiss Christmas Special by[...]

But even united, how can they hope to defeat a shadowy alien cabal that is both indestructible and eager to kill anyone who threatens it? We also get some returns, a Black Kiss Christmas Special "because nothing says "holiday fun" like an endless stream of incredibly nasty revenge sex", the beginning of the third volume of[...]

Saga was restored to the service, as were other titles such as Black Kiss II, Sex and Herogasm. Today, ComiXology have announced that 56 titles have been withdrawn from the ComiXology app on iOS devices in accordance with Apple guidelines Including some that had recent been re-approved. They include manga titles such as Again Tomorrow, Image books[...]

Bleeding Cool has comprehensively covered how Diamond UK have decided not to distribute Black Kiss 2 in the UK after its first issue, over fears of actions by HM Customs that would delay all the comics being distributed in this fashion. We've now learned that Canada too will also not be receiving the comic book from[...]

Bleeding Cool first told you that Black Kiss 2 #1 by Howard Chaykin was going to be more sexually explicit than many had previously thought, then that it  had been held by UK Customs, while Diamond UK negotiated a release the week after, with a note to retailers reminding them of the adult nature of[...]

And after reading the comic in advance, that inking became a little stronger. I have been told by a number of UK stores that the new Black Kiss comic by Howard Chaykin, Black Kiss 2, due to be published tomorrow by Image Comics, has not arrived – although other Image comic books have. Asking around, I am[...]

(They did distribute it.) When Howard Chaykin's Black Kiss was published, it was published by a minor publisher and distributed in sealed bags to as not of offend browsers While it had sexual content, famously full frontal naked scenes with a pre-op transexual, it was far more a hard boiled LA thriller with religion, Hollywood[...]

Here is the introduction to the Art Of Chaykin by Howard Chaykin, published by Dynamite this week. It is written by Brian Bendis, better known for comic

Black Kiss with its bleak human outlook, full frontal transexual nudity, dirty talk and blow jobs caused an uproar when originally published in the eighties in its thin, black and white floppy format, bagged in plastic so as not allowing unsuspecting eyes to flick through it and be ruined forever. And now, almost twenty-five years later,[...]