A Sensual Cesspool of Iniquity: Comics and Censorship in 1950s Ireland Kim Uylenbroek Shaadi Devereaux and Jerome Reuter

Shaadi Devereaux and Jerome Reuter

” —Robin Ha

2006 (originally published 1954)

underscoring both its humor and heart

We don’t know what the hell that is either

A Sensual Cesspool of Iniquity: Comics and Censorship in 1950s Ireland Kim Uylenbroek Shaadi Devereaux and Jerome ReuterBy James Bacon. Published by Limit Break Comics, 2026. Comics were banned in Ireland. The Censorship of Publications Board prohibited comics. The Gardai, the Irish police, seized comics under warrant, investigated them and even borrowed comics to see what was available. There was a litany of complaint, objection and outrage about comics in the 1950s. Comics historian and fan James Bacon shares his research into the unique and singular Irish experience