NEW YORK (AP) — One in all Neil Gaiman’s publishers has dropped him because the British creator faces a number of allegations of sexual assault and harassment. And his identify 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 will 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.
“Dark Horse takes seriously the allegations against Neil Gaiman and we are no longer 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 time 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 publish, denying any wrongdoing.
“Like most of us, I’m learning, and I’m trying to do the work needed, and I know that that’s not an overnight process,” he wrote. “At the same time, as I reflect on my past – and as I re-review everything that actually happened as opposed to what is being alleged – I don’t accept 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 over time. Two of them, HarperCollins and W.W. Norton, have mentioned they haven’t any plans to launch his books sooner or later. Others, together with Bloomsbury, have up to now declined remark.
Gaiman nonetheless lists the Stephen Barclay Company on his web site as a contact for private appearances, however his identify does not seem on the company’s consumer listing. Barclay didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Disney has paused a deliberate adaptation of Gaiman’s “The Graveyard Book,” while Netflix is still scheduled to release a second season based on “The Sandman.”
