From “The Revenant” by Scott Hampton. Published in Tales of Terror #8, Sept. 1986, Eclipse Comics.
From “Armed Love” by Jay Kinney and Ned Sonntag. Published in Young Lust #2, 1971, The Print Mint.
“Why’d you fall out with DC comics?”
“Because they’re a bunch of bloodsucking bastards, quite frankly,” is the kinda thing he tends to say. He’ll clarify that the comic book medium is “perfect,” it is “sublime,” whereas the comics industry is “a dysfunctional hellhole” that “hasn’t had any new ideas in 20 or 30 years,” that it’s run by “sub-human” thieves who employ the same “gangster ethics” by which DC “bought” the rights for Superman off its teen creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster, for $130.
“I pretty much detest the comics industry” is the gist, most recently for what they’ve done to popular culture and democracy with the Marvel Cinematic Universe and . . . whatever it is that DC’s up to. Moore’s been saying for years that he sees a harbinger of fascism in how young adults flock to see these “franchised übermenschen” zipping across the screen, and yes, he’s also mindful of the fact that he’s basically the cause of all this.
There were a lot of quotes I could’ve pulled from Alexander Sorondo’s new profile of Alan Moore at The Metropolitan Review — getting expelled for selling acid, falling in love with David Foster Wallace, accidentally conjuring the Persian math demon Asmodeus, etc. — but this is the one I chose. Check it out.
From “I Was a Captive of the Insect Fiends!” by Tim “Grisly” Boxell. Published in Fantagor #4, 1972, Last Gasp.
Peanuts daily strip for 8 May 1979 by Charles M. Schulz. Reprinted in The Complete Peanuts: 1979-1980 (Volume Fifteen), Fantagraphics Books, 2011.
The cover for Middle Class Fantasies #1 by Jerry Lane, 1973, Cartoonists Co-op Press.
“Ada” by Willie Mendes. The piece is the back cover of Insect Fear #2, March 1970, The Print Mint.
A panel from Sergio Aragonés’ one-shot Dia de Los Muertos, 1998, Dark Horse Comics.
“Rollerettes Against Change!” by Melinda Gebbie. The piece is the back cover of Wimmin’s Comix #8, March 1983, Last Gasp. Reprinted in The Complete Wimmin’s Comix, 2016, Fantagraphics.
From “Nightmare World” by Basil Wolverton. Published in Weird Tales #3, Sept. 1952, Stanely Morse Publications.
A page from Ben Passmore’s graphic novel Black Arms to Hold You Up, Pantheon, 2025. Assata Shakur passed away on 25 Sept. 2025. She was free.
A one-pager by Robert Crumb from Weirdo #2, Summer 1981, Last Gasp.
A one-panel gag by Jay Lynch (as “Phil Space”) from Gothic Blimp Works #3, 1969, the East Village Other.
A “Dirty Duck” strip by Bobby London. From Air Pirates Funnies #1, July 1971, Last Gasp.
Art from “Tomb of the Space Gods” by Alexis Ziritt; from Space Riders #3, June 2015 by Alexis Ziritt (artist), Fabian Rangel, Jr. (writer), and Ryan Ferrier (letterer)Rory Hayes. Published by Black Mask Studios.
Art/text attributed to “Marks.” Back cover of Mother’s Oats Comix #2, August, 1971, Rip Off Press.
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