NFT Project Endorsed by Elijah Wood in Disarray Over Artist’s 'Racist' Drawings

[Galaxy]

Elijah Wood initially gave his blessing to Jungle Freaks, launched by a former Hustler cartoonist. Then racially charged cartoons from the 1970s came to light. NFT project Jungle Freaks fell into disarray yesterday after “racist” cartoons drawn by the project’s artist in the 1970s resurfaced, leading many high-profile investors to abandon the project—while others dismissed the controversy as a case of “cancel culture” gone wrong.

Jungle Freaks is a father-and-son project that consists of 10,000 zombie NFTs drawn by George Trosley, a former cartoonist for Hustler. Source