LOS ANGELES, CA — In Cold Blog
(ICB), founded by Los Angeles Times and Borders
International best selling author Corey Mitchell,
is the Internet’s leading true crime blog. With
several contributing writers that cover the gamut
from Pulitzer Prize nominees, award winning journalists
and authors, criminal justice and medical professionals,
victim’s rights advocates and even family members
of the victim of a serial killer, In Cold Blog
has been providing a unique voice to issues involving
crime and justice since June 2007.
When In Cold Blog’’s editor, Michelle McKee, went
looking for someone to represent the voice of America’s
freedom of speech, censorship, morality gone wrong,
exploitation, and the removal of one’s Constitutional
guarantee of freedom, she looked no further than
the notorious publisher of Boneyard Press, Hart
D. Fisher.
Fisher’s opinions on serial killers and serial
killer culture have been sought by numerous television
producers for programs such as ABC's DayOne, CNN's
Murder By Numbers, Entertainment Tonight, Larry
King Live, The Jerry Springer Show, CNN Headline
News, A&E's Biography, and in magazines such
as Time, Tattoo Savage, Hero Illustrated, People,
The Comics Journal, and the non-fiction best seller
The A-Z Guide to Serial Killers, to name only a
An individual who takes his work to the extreme,
Fisher pushes the envelope on the boundaries of
freedom of expression beyond that which many are
comfortable with. His work has been banned and
pulled from shelves and his books have been destroyed
by the distribution house itself.
With credits dotting his portfolio that include
the production of indie horror films, the creation
of serial killer comic books, the production of
pornography, horror porn to be specific, as well
as critically acclaimed poetry, Hart D. Fisher
has been called one of the "100 Most Important
People In The Comics Industry" by Hero Illustrated.
He has also been one of the most universally despised
individuals to have ever set foot in adult theme
comics, let alone within in the crime genre itself.
As the controversial publisher behind Boneyard
Press, Fisher created Jeffrey Dahmer: An Unauthorized
Biography of a Serial Killer, A comic book that
started a firestorm which brought death threats,
stalkers, lawsuits, protest marches, including
a threatened KKK protest march on his home in Illinois,
a SWAT team to his door, and a request by the local
As managing editor of Glenn Danzig’s publishing
company Verotik, Fisher created a comic book murder
story, Verotika #4, “A Taste of Cherry,” that
was considered to be so offensive and obscene it
shut down Planet Comics in Oklahoma City in the
early 90’s and the work was banned. It is still
banned in that state today.
Even OJ Simpson has sued Fisher for his satirical
portrayal in Boneyard Press’ comic book creations.
Hart Fisher produces the type of material that
members of the morality police generally object
to. His work is considered by some to be vile and
offensive, and it is exactly the type of unpopular
speech that is at the forefront of assaults by
the so called moral majority against our Constitutional
liberties. It is the type of material that is typically
blamed for various public ills and criminal activity;
after all, we've all heard what the Uptight Ninny
Brigade has to say about sex crimes, metal music
and video games.
Fisher couldn't be a more appropriate voice representing
freedom of expression, and the shredding of the
Untied States Constitution. Hart D. Fisher has
fought for his right as an American citizen to
exercise his freedom of speech – and he has lost.
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