Apple bans gay sex images in adult comic
Update: Comixology has said it made a mistake in its interpretation of Apple's policies and that the comic will be available through its app soon.
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Two "postage stamp-sized images of gay sex" have led Apple to ban an acclaimed new comic by Brian K Vaughan, the award-winning author has announced.
Vaughan, who has won multiple prizes from the comic book industry for his work on series including Ex Machina and Y: The Last Man, has issued a statement condemning Apple's treatment of the latest issue of Saga. Pitched by its publisher, Image Comics, as "for mature readers", the science fiction series follows the adventures of new parents Marko and Alana as they struggle to raise their child during a never-ending galactic war. Out this week, the new issue features two small images of gay sex – or, as Locke and Key author Joe Hill described them, "an image of a man with a TV set for a head, and a picture on that TV set of a man giving a blow job" – which can be seen on the Comic Book Resources website..
"As has hopefully been clear from the first page of our first issue, Saga is a series for the proverbial 'mature reader'. Unfortunately, because of two postage stamp-sized images of gay sex, Apple is banning tomorrow's Saga #12 from being sold through any iOS apps," said Vaughan on his publisher's website.
"This is a drag, especially because our book has featured what I would consider much more graphic imagery in the past, but there you go.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/apr/10/apple-bans-gay-sex-images-comic
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