Black Kiss is an American hardboiled erotic comic book series written and drawn by Howard Chaykin, which was originally published in 1988 by Vortex Comics.
Black Kiss became one of the most controversial American comics of the late 1980s, this was due to the comic having the sort of explicit scenes of sex and violence unseen in most comics published at the time. The twelve issue series was written and drawn by Howard Chaykin, best known for his A...
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Black Kiss is an American hardboiled erotic comic book series written and drawn by Howard Chaykin, which was originally published in 1988 by Vortex Comics.
Black Kiss became one of the most controversial American comics of the late 1980s, this was due to the comic having the sort of explicit scenes of sex and violence unseen in most comics published at the time. The twelve issue series was written and drawn by Howard Chaykin, best known for his American Flagg! series which often hinted at the sort of sexual content which Black Kiss showed in detail.
To help retailers who had worries over selling what could be described as pornography, Vortex released the series sealed in a plastic bag. This meant that casual browsers could not open the comic, or obviously see the internal content. However, this was not done when Vortex released a series of collected editions called Big Black Kiss in 1989.
The series attracted a vast amount of controversy, mainly over its sexual content, but also...
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