Scheherazade Anthology In Dispute

In a still-developing story I'm sorting out over the next few days for a piece in The Comics Journal, cartoonist Megan Kelso recently went public with a series of difficulties she endured during the printing of female cartoonists' anthology Scheherazade, problems that resulted in a book she felt that was not up to a standard at which she could support the project.

According to statements made by publisher Ricard Nash of Soft Skull Press on the message board The Comics Journal, the first, faulty printing by Maple-Vail in New York will be released to certain retail markets only, and a corrected edition satisfactorily in-line with what Kelso and other contributors originally imagined will be distributed to Last Gasp, Diamond and Cold Cut after being funded by that first printing.

Several factors remain in dispute. For example, while the publisher claims that the financial costs were too severe to have the print run destroyed, Kelso says she made an offer to buy out the print run to have it destroyed.

Above: What Kelso wanted (top); what was printed
 
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