Howard Chaykin’s Hey Kids Comics Coming From Image This August

Seduction Of The Not So Innocent

♦ Howard Chaykin has just announced on his Facebook that he is doing a new series for Image starting this summer. Here’s his description of the series…

As long as there have been comics, there’s been a fascination with the behind-the-scenes personal drama, lurid flimflammery, and just plain out and out larceny that contributed to their making.

HEY KIDS—COMICS! is a fictionalized history of more than a half century of turbulence and triumph, despair and drama in the comic book racket.

Where aspiring artists climbed into business and bed with conmen and clowns, ganefs and gangsters, to create the foundations of today’s biggest entertainment business—or at least, the tail that wags the dog.

Much of it really happened, and the names have been changed to protect the innocent and guilty alike…and since everyone was guilty of something, no one was really all that innocent.