One among Neil Gaiman’s publishers has dropped him because the British writer faces a number of allegations of sexual assault and harassment. And his title just isn’t on the web site of the company which has for years dealt with his talking appearances.
Darkish Horse Comics introduced on X final weekend that it could not launch its illustrated sequence based mostly on Gaiman’s novel, Anansi Boys. The seventh of eight deliberate editions got here out earlier this month.
“Darkish Horse takes severely the allegations towards Neil Gaiman and we’re not publishing his works,” reads the assertion from Darkish Horse, which nonetheless consists of Gaiman’s books on its web site.
Allegations towards Gaiman, recognized for such bestsellers as Coraline and The Sandman sequence, first emerged final summer season on a Tortoise Media podcast. After a prolonged New York Journal article in January included allegations from eight girls of assault, abuse and coercion, Gaiman responded with a weblog put up, denying any wrongdoing.
“Like most of us, I’m studying, and I’m attempting to do the work wanted, and I do know that that’s not an in a single day course of,” he wrote. “On the identical time, as I replicate on my previous – and as I re-review all the things that truly occurred as opposed to what’s being alleged – I don’t settle for there was any abuse.”
Gaiman’s workplace and his literary agent didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark Monday.
Gaiman has labored with quite a few publishers through the years. Two of them, HarperCollins and WW Norton, have mentioned they haven’t any plans to launch his books sooner or later. Others, together with Bloomsbury, have thus far declined remark.
Gaiman nonetheless lists the Stephen Barclay Company on his website as a contact for private appearances, however his title does not seem on the agency’s client list. Barclay didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Disney has paused a deliberate adaptation of Gaiman’s The Graveyard Ebook, whereas Netflix remains to be scheduled to launch a second season based mostly on The Sandman.
