After considerable bureaucratic difficulties, the collected edition of Eddie Campbell and Alan Moore's From Hell has been cleared for importation in Campbell's home country of Australia as of Nov. 14. Based on the recommendations of Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification, which had reviewed a copy of From Hell Volume 7, the Australian Customs Service had banned both Volume 7 and the collected edition from import. Two copies of the collected edition ordered by Quality Comics, a shop in Perth, were seized by Customs.

Campbell and Andrew Frith of Quality Comics requested that the collected From Hell be resubmitted for review as a complete work and reclassified on that basis. Campbell told the Journal, "Following my urging to take a look at the complete work and consider context, the OFLC have returned advice in only 15 days that the book is acceptable for importation."

See earlier tcj.com Newswatch report, Australian Customs Blocks Import of From Hell. The full story appeared in TCJ #229.

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