Fetus-X

Fetus-X
Eric Millikin's Fetus-X comics often explore themes of the occult and romance.
Author(s)	Eric Millikin; previously with Casey Sorrow
Website	http://www.fetusx.com/
Current status / schedule	Weekly
Launch date	Late 1999
Genre(s)	Horror, Comedy, Romance, Political

Fetus-X is a controversial weekly romantic horror comic written and drawn by Eric Millikin and Casey Sorrow. Millikin is an award-winning American artist and former human anatomy lab embalmer and dissectionist. Sorrow an internationally known American illustrator and printmaker.

Fetus-X has been published in newspapers, books, and as a webcomic since late 1999. The first Fetus-X comics were drawn by artist Casey Sorrow, who later left to create the comic Feral Calf. The storylines of Fetus-X generally revolve around Millikin's use of the occult in both romantic relationships and battles with various ghosts, demons, aliens, and monsters. The artwork is mixed media, combining expressionist paintings with found objects. The text is often written in free verse. Early comics are in black and white, but since 2002 most are full color.

Millikin began drawing horror comics by age one-and-a-half, when he made crayon drawings of ghosts terrorizing him during toilet-training. By second grade, he was making teachers profane birthday cards showing his school burning down.

The first Fetus-X newspaper strips were published in spring 2000 in Michigan State University's The State News. Immediately there were problems with censorship, Catholic League protests, and threatened cancellation.

After the Catholic League protested the comic and then MSU president M. Peter McPherson declared he wanted it banned, the comic strip was removed for being too controversial. During the controversy over the comic, many people protested on both sides of the issue.