Given the issues we experienced with controversial images on our
Comix Classics iPhone app, I was happy to see that Apple has loosen up a bit on LGBT-themed comics that seemed to have nothing objectionable going on. As reported by the
Comics Beat,
Teleny and Camille, Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super-Tranny, and Rainy Day Recess: The Complete Steven’s Comics were finally approved after a year of wrangling. As you can see at
the link and in the screen shot below, these are pretty tame.
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A page of colorable valentine's cards from
Rainy Day Recess: The Complete Steven's Comics.
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Underground comix have always been controversial, as they often depicted sex, violence and outrageous jokes in order to provoke a response from the reader. Apple's choices in what was ok or rejected was maddeningly inconsistent. I can understand that violent and sexual imagery like S. Clay Wilson's
Head First might not be to everyone's taste. But some of the images rejected were very PG, such as Will Elder's cover for
Snarf #10, based on Theodore Gericault’s famous painting
The Raft of the Medusa or a Frank Stack page with a very subtle nude. Yet Joel Beck's
One Dong's Family, a parody of a stereotypical
Leave it to Beaver type family featuring anthropomorphic genitalia as the main characters was ok?
I'd like to thank other sites have picked up the
Comix Classics/iPhone story building on the
Imprint article by Michael Dooley:
The Comics Reporter,
Comics Beat,
Anime News Network, The
Publisher's Weekly Daily RoundUp,
ICv2 and
Comic Book Resources.
