Border Bust on Comics
Canadian customs agents seized copies of Black Eye 1: Graphic Transmissions to Cause Ocular Hypertension,
a Kickstarter-funded “Comics Anthology of Dark Humor” on May 6th as
artist Tom Neely was attempting to transport five copies to the Toronto
Comics Arts Festival. Agents confiscated the books for “obscenity,”
according to a post on the publisher’s blog. The post quoted Neely on the The process: “They went through everything
in our car. Opened every suitcase and looked through every book.”
