Carey has said the series was born out of his love for Japanese and Korean films, such as My Beautiful Girl, Mari, and horror manga by creators such as Junji Ito, Hideshi Hino, and Shigeru Mizuki.
Flesh-Colored Horror is listed as the 3rd in the Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection and published by ComicsOne.
Itō Hirobumi | Toyo Ito | Kenji Ito | Junji Ito | Jeremy Ito | Itō calculus | Yuki Ito | Sachiko Ito | Miyako Itō | Midori Ito | Lance Ito | Kenichi Ito | Hiromi Itō | Tsutomu Ito | Teiji Ito | Takeshi Ito | Shizuka Itō | Shinjō Itō | ''Michael W. Carroll by Joi Ito | Kumataro Ito | Junji Ogawa | Junji Nishimura | Joi Ito | Itō Station | Ito District, Wakayama | Ito Calculus | ITO | cover of ''Japanesque'' with Akira Ito and Joe Yamanaka |
The story appeared in Halloween and was reprinted by ComicsOne as a chapter in the Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection, Volume 4: The Face Burglar published in 1998 (sometimes the series is described as Horror World of Junji Ito).