Dark Horse Comics has dropped Neil Gaiman, cancelling his Anansi Boys comic series, in the wake of sexual assault allegations brought against the author.
The publisher posted to X Friday night writing, “Dark Horse takes seriously the allegations against Neil Gaiman and we are no longer publishing his works. Confirming that the ‘Anansi Boys’ comic series and collected volume have been canceled.”
U.K.-based Tortoise Media spotlighted accounts from four women — two who came forward in early July 2024 and two more who told their stories at the end of the month — about their encounters with the Coraline and Sandman creator.
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The comic books are the latest projects in Gaiman’s creative catalogue that have paused or been canceled in light of the news, which Gaiman addressed on his personal blog, denying the allegations.
“As I read through this latest collection of accounts, there are moments I half-recognise and moments I don’t, descriptions of things that happened sitting beside things that emphatically did not happen,” he wrote. “I’m far from a perfect person, but I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone. Ever.”
In October it was revealed that Good Omens, the Prime Video drama series based on the book Gaiman co-wrote with Terry Pratchett, will end with one 90-minute episode instead of a full third season as originally planed, with Gaiman exiting his creative role on the project. The author offered to take a step back. Deadline first reported that production was paused on the third and final season of the drama show in September after the news of allegations broke over the summer. That project’s pause came right after Disney put a planned feature adaptation of Gaiman’s 2008 YA title The Graveyard Book on hold.
Later in his blog post from mid-January, Gaiman wrote that upon reflection, he “could have and should have done so much better,” describing himself as “emotionally unavailable while being sexually available, self-focused and not as thoughtful.”
“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. To repeat, I have never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with anyone,” he continued. “I am prepared to take responsibility for any missteps I made. I’m not willing to turn my back on the truth, and I can’t accept being described as someone I am not, and cannot and will not admit to doing things I didn’t do.”
Gaiman is also behind Netflix’s The Sandman, Season 2 of which returned to production in November 2023 post-strikes in Hollywood. The latest updates on the sophomore season of the Netflix series, based on Gaiman’s comics, were some casting announcements as well as 2025 as a projected release date.
Netflix also recently launched Dead Boy Detectives, based on another set of Gaiman’s comics within the same universe as The Sandman, but the series was canceled after its first season.