Radio Comix publisher Elin Winkler notes in her blog that Brenner Printing has stopped printing “adults only” material:
This morning, right after I woke up, I was called by our printer (Brenner Printing) and informed that as of March 31st, they were no longer going to be printing *any* adults only material, period. They were very apologetic, but needless to say, this was very upsetting and shocking news. We’ve been printing the adult books there for ten years now with no issues whatsoever, but apparently, the owner has suddenly decided that he doesn’t want such material printed there any more. (This is also sudden and odd, because the whole time I was at Antarctic Press, they also printed adult comics…)
Winkler notes that Brenner also prints books for Avatar, Eros and many other small publishers for whom it was a mainstay.
I’ve been told by my boss at DramaQueen that neither RUSH, or any of the licensed BL titles DQ prints with Brenner, will be effected.
Sheesh, I was about to return to Brenner for the upcoming run of MAULED! #4. I have to say, this is unfortunate news as I had a really personable working relationship with their sales staff. Hmm, I wonder what they define as “adult”. We don’t have any nakedness or sex in this new issue, but MAULED! #4 may contain words such as: piss, shit, fuck, fucker, fucking, dick, pussy, cunt, ass, asshole, twat, bloodly hell, son of bitch, but, ya know, nothing in a sexual context…
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