#melinda gebbie

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1) Alan Moore - Art by Matías Bergara

2) Alan Moore - BBC News

3) Alan Strong - Art by Dylan Horrocks

4) Godzilla Pin-Up - Art by Alan Moore

5) Alan Moore (1987)

6) Alan Moore - Art by Melinda Gebbie

7) Alan Moore And Jack Kirby

8) The Muppet Show With Guest Star Alan Moore - Art by Axel Medellin

9) Alan Moore

10) Alan Moore - Art by Andy Christofi

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Melinda Gebbie, 1975

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In celebration of Public Domain Day 2024, today I learned about an erotic comic by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie called "Lost Girls" featuring Alice from Alice in Wonderland, Wendy from Peter Pan, and Dorothy from Wizard of Oz. Here is a review by @neil-gaiman which seems to suggest the comic is at least interesting: https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781891830747 It looks interesting enough to buy, and now with peter pan entering the public domain - hopefully we will see more cool and interesting stuff made with these characters.

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In connection with the last ask (about sexuality and morality in art), I'd be curious what you think of Alan Moore's "Lost Girls", which excited some minor controversy at the time and would surely have excited vastly more had it debuted in these more prudish and paranoid times...

Not my favorite Moore. The structure is intensely mechanical, the parodies mostly flat. The end is quite moving, and the Rite of Spring scene is good, and there are interesting historical reflections in the middle. Gebbie's art is, so to speak, ravishing; I don't deny that.

(I should say I'm bad on classic children's literature and have mostly not read the relevant source texts beside Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. When Moore works with pre-existing properties rather than with archetypes, I find the results quite mixed. The early League is charming, the Lovecraft material profound, but the later League is at Finnegans Wake levels of grand folly, pretty much unreadable in my view. Lost Girls is somewhere in the middle.)

But its quality of polemic is off-putting, a performative contradiction, very D. H. Lawrence: a hectoring puritan sermon about how awful puritanism is. I think of the scene where the hotel owner (M. Rougeur, get it?) is reading Pierre Louÿs's incest and pedo porn during an orgy and pauses to defend it to one of the girls on the grounds that it's only imaginary. But if Alan and Melinda actually thought that, they'd just have shown the scene without anxious moral justification, the way a perved-out mangaka like Asano would. (And Moore does do this in his better works, from Swamp Thing to Providence.) At least allow transgression to have the dignity of remaining transgressive.

Presenting transgression as a wholesome, wholly salubrious, compatible with public morals and public life, leads to the fatal confusions of the present, when adults read only children's books and children are handed sanitary guidelines to safe anal play in elementary school. In that way, I find Lost Girls painfully premonitory rather than usefully untimely. Today is Moore's 70th birthday, by the way, so I will say again that it's a beautiful book with a brilliant historical conceit—quite an oeuvre where something like that is a minor work or a failed experiment.

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Last signed copies of Alan Moore’s “Dodgem Logic” anthology offered by Knockabout

Check out Dodgem Logic - an irreverent anthology title featuring some scurrilous craziness from a host of free thinkers!

The last remaining signed copies of Alan Moore’s Dodgem Logic #1 are currently up for sale in the Knockabout eBay shop – and lots of other wonderful stuff too, including comics by Bryan Talbot and books by Hunt Emerson. Forty years after the heyday of the alternative press, writer Alan Moore launched the 21st century’s first underground magazine from his home town of Northampton. “Colliding…

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America's Best Comics Preview (1999) by America's Best Comics and Wizard Magazine

By Alan Moore, Chris Sprouse, and Al Gordon.

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Combined using Bazaart

Front and back covers by Melinda Gebbie from Frescazizis, an all-women underground anthology about rape, published by Last Gasp, 1977.

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More illustrations from The Femme's Guide to the Universe.

source: The Femme's Guide to the Universe, written by Shar Rednour

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Young Althaea Yronwode watches from the front row as the Women In Comics panel has a discussion at the 1982 San Diego Comic Con. On the panel, from left to right: Dori Seda (1951-1988, can only be seen partially), Unknown, Jan Duursema, Trina Robbins, Carol Kalish (1955-1991), Jo Duffy, Lee Marrs, Catherine Yronwode, Carol Lay, Terry Boyce, Melinda Gebbie.

[screamingeyepress]

Ever wanted to read interviews with your favorite underground comics from three of your favorite underground publishers? Well, you can do that now in Outsider Comics! Featuring in-depth conversations with icons such as Melinda Gebbie, Jeff Smith, and Steve Rude, and more, each interview is a revealing look at the passion and dedication these creators bring to their craft.

Pick up a copy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM6JGXN9/

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Melinda Gebbie “Alan Moore” (2007) Source

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Tomorrow Stories: Book Two

Writer: Alan Moore

Artists: Jim Baikie, Hilary Barta, Joyce Chin, Dame Darcy, Melinda Gebbie, Kevin Nowlan & Rick Veitch

This is a fun collection of hilarious comics! 🤘🖤

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Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie at their marriage (photo by Neil Gaiman).

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Alan Moore (writer), Melinda Gebbie (artist) Lost Girls, Book Two (1992) First published in Taboo

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Lost Girls #1

by Alan Moore; Melinda Gebbie and Todd Klein

Top Shelf Productions

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The Spawnometer

Episode 0:0:3:7

1963

Spawn #37 & 1963 (1993)