#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.

[grandhotelabyss]

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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The Spawnometer

Episode 0:0:3:7

1963

Spawn #37 & 1963 (1993)

[beyondthespheres]

When it’s coming to Alan Moore’s Best Comics (ABC), I’d probably rank Lost Girls as a first - mostly because of Melinda Gebbie, who also made The Cobweb such a rough ride. I mean, just look at the dress and the light *er* penetration  

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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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Melinda Gebbie “Alan Moore” (2007) Source

[that-butch-archivist]

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.

[hatingwithfears]

BOOKS READ IN 2022

Here’s the complete list of books I managed to read in 2022.

168 books. 54,494 pages.

Renata Adler- Speedboat

Kendra Allen- The Collection Plate

Jonathan Alter- His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life

Kenneth Anger- Hollywood Babylon

Jason Bailey- Fun City Cinema: New York City and the Movies That Made It

Peter Baker, Susan Glasser- The Divider: Trump in The White House 2017-2021

JG Ballard- The Atrocity Exhibition

Julien Barnes- Elizabeth Finch

Brit Bennett- The Vanishing Half

Charles M. Blow- The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto

Anthony Bourdain- Medium Raw

Anthony Bourdain, Laurie Woolever- World Travel: An Irreverent Guide

Box Brown- Cannabis: The Illegalization of Weed in America

Mariah Carey, Michaela Angela Davis- The Meaning of Mariah Carey

Nick Cave & Sean O’Hagan- Faith, Hope, and Carnage

David Chang- Eat a Peach

Dan Charnas- Dilla Time

Leonard Cohen- A Ballet of Lepers

Lee Cole- Groundskeeping

Teju Cole- Black Paper

Ray Connolly- Being Elvis: A Lonely Life

Brian Contoir- Practical Alchemy

Antoine Cosse- Metax

Charles R. Cross- Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain

Daniele Cybulskie- How To Live Like a Monk

Travis Dandro- King of King Court

John Darnelle- Devil House

Michael Deforge- Heaven No Hell

Rita Dove- Playlist for the Apocalypse

David Duchovny- The Reservoir

Jennifer Egan- The Candy House

Robert Evans- The Kid Stays in The Picture

Scott Eyman- Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise

Nicolas Ferraro- Cruz

Mark Fisher- Ghosts of My Life

Mark Fisher- Capitalist Realism

Johnathan Franzen- Crossroads

Harry Freedman- Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius

Matti Friedman- Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai

James Gavin- George Michael: A Life

Lizzy Goodman- Meet Me in The Bathroom

Andrew Sean Greer- Less

Dave Grohl- The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

Joseph Hansen- Troublemaker

Joy Harjo- Poet Warrior

Robert Harris- The Ghost Writer

Noah Hawley- Anthem

Wil Haygood- Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Film in a White World

Clinton Heylin- The Double Life of Bob Dylan

Andrew Holleran- The Kingdom of Sand

Michel Houellebecq- Serotonin

Sean Howe- Marvel Comics: The Untold Story

Dorthy B Hughes- In a Lonely Place

John Irving- The Fourth Hand

Walter Isaacson- Leonardo Da Vinci

Kazuo Ishiguro- Klara and The Sun

Junji Ito- No Longer Human

Robert Jones Jr- The Prophets

Saeed Jones- Alive at The End of the World

Stephen Graham Jones- My Heart is a Chainsaw

Rax King- Tacky

Stephen King- Billy Summers

Katie Kitamura- Intimacies

Chuck Klosterman- The Nineties

TJ Klune- Under The Whispering Door

Karl Ove Knausgaard- The Morning Star

Hideo Kojima- The Creative Dream

Milan Kundera- Slowness

Wally Lamb- I Know This Much is True

Yiyun Li- Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

Thomas Ligotti- The Conspiracy Against The Human Race

Roger Lipsey- Make Peace Before the Sun Goes Down

Patricia Lockwood- No One is Talking About This

Ling Ma- Bliss Montage

Stuart B MacBride- Halfhead

Michael Mann & Meg Gardiner- Heat 2

Greil Marcus- Dead Elvis

Mike McCormack- Solar Bones

Jennette McCurdy- I’m Glad My Mom Died

Janelle Monae- The Memory Librarian

Ottessa Moshfegh- Lapvona

Leila Mottley- Nightcrawling

Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie- Lost Girls

Grant Morrison- The Invisibles

Mannie Murphy- I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Sequoia Nagamatsu- How High We Go in The Dark

Joyce Carol Oates- Blonde

Joyce Carol Oates- American Melancholy

John O’Connell- Bowie’s Bookshelf

Ryan O’Connell- Just By Looking at Him

Jenny Offill- Weather

Paul Ortiz- An African American and Latinx History of The United States

Hiroko Oyamada- The Factory

Hiroko Oyamada- The Hole

Helen Oyeymi- What is Not Yours is Not Yours

James Patterson- Hear No Evil

Larissa Pham- Pop Song

Brian Phillips- Impossible Owls

Stephanie Phillips- Why Solange Matters

Keith Phipps- Age of Cage

Michael Pollan- This Is Your Mind on Plants

Richard Powers- Bewilderment

Questlove- Music is History

Kristen Radtke- Seek You

Sue Rainsford- Follow Me to Ground

Claudia Rankine- Just Us: An American Conversation

George A Romero, Daniel Kraus- The Living Dead

Karen Russell- Orange World

George Saunders- A Swim in a Pond in The Rain

George Saunders- Liberation Day

Samantha Schweblin— Fever Dream

Leonardo Sciascia- Equal Danger

Mark Seal- Leave The Gun, Take The Cannoli

Seth- Clyde Fans

Alan Sepinwall- Breaking Bad 101

Zadie Smith- Feel Free

Won-Pyung Sohn- Almond

Bob Spitz- Led Zeppelin: The Biography

Elizabeth Strout- Oh William!

J Randy Taraborrelli- The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe

Herve Le Tellier- The Anomaly

Manjit Thapp- Feelings

Olga Tokarczuk- The Books of Jacob

Jia Tolentino- Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self Delusion

Leo Trezenick- The Confession of a Mad Man

Stanley Tucci- Taste

Una- Becoming Unbecoming

Ocean Vuong- Time is a Mother

Chris Ware- Rusty Brown

WC Ware- Jimmy Corrigan

John Waters- Liarmouth

Peter Weiss- The Shadow of The Coachman’s Body

Missouri Williams- The Doloriad

Antoine Wilson- Mouth to Mouth

Sarah Winman- Still Life

Laurie Wollever- Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography

Kenneth Womack- Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road and The End of The Beatles

Hanya Yanagihara- To Paradise

Ed. Jelani Cobb & David Remnick- The Matter of Black Lives

Ed. Sinead Gleeson & Kim Gordon- This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music

[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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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! 🤘🖤

[dotanukister]

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