diff --git a/pkgs/applications/graphics/mcomix/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/graphics/mcomix/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index c16c0d88b46..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/graphics/mcomix/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, python27Packages }:
-
-python27Packages.buildPythonApplication rec {
-    name = "mcomix-${version}";
-    version = "1.2.1";
-
-    src = fetchurl {
-      url = "mirror://sourceforge/mcomix/${name}.tar.bz2";
-      sha256 = "0fzsf9pklhfs1rzwzj64c0v30b74nk94p93h371rpg45qnfiahvy";
-    };
-
-    propagatedBuildInputs = with python27Packages; [ pygtk pillow setuptools ];
-
-    doCheck = false;
-
-    meta = {
-      description = "Image viewer designed to handle comic books";
-      longDescription = ''
-        MComix is an user-friendly, customizable image viewer. It is specifically
-        designed to handle comic books, but also serves as a generic viewer.
-        It reads images in ZIP, RAR, 7Zip or tar archives as well as plain image
-        files. It is written in Python and uses GTK through the PyGTK bindings,
-        and runs on both Linux and Windows.
-
-        MComix is a fork of the Comix project, and aims to add bug fixes and
-        stability improvements after Comix development came to a halt in late 2009.
-      '';
-      homepage = http://mcomix.sourceforge.net/;
-      license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
-      maintainers = with stdenv.lib.maintainers; [ AndersonTorres ];
-    };
-}
-# TODO:
-# - error in check phase
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index b254caf61d9..227fd8aa3b6 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ mapAliases ({
   mariadb-client = hiPrio mariadb.client; #added 2019.07.28
   mbedtls_1_3 = throw "End of life, see https://tls.mbed.org/kb/how-to/upgrade-2.0"; # added 2019-12-08
   mess = mame; # added 2019-10-30
+  mcomix = throw "mcomix has been removed from nixpkgs, as it's unmaintained"; # added 2019-12-10
   mysql-client = hiPrio mariadb.client;
   memtest86 = memtest86plus; # added 2019-05-08
   mesa_noglu = mesa; # added 2019-05-28
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 7cb0c4fbc42..7ab11f149d3 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -19965,8 +19965,6 @@ in
 
   meme = callPackage ../applications/graphics/meme { };
 
-  mcomix = callPackage ../applications/graphics/mcomix { };
-
   mendeley = libsForQt5.callPackage ../applications/office/mendeley {
     gconf = pkgs.gnome2.GConf;
   };