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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
TABOO!
A GRAPHIC NOVEL HORROR ANTHOLOGY.
featuring a rare work by ALAN MOORE.
HARD TO FIND COLLECTOR'S ITEM. RARE AND OUT OF PRINT.
Includes fantastic Biographies and Bibliographies of the creators who contribute to this volume.
TABOO was a meaty, cutting-edge, Eisner Award-winning trade paperback anthology of mature horror comics. Trade-paperback format, with full-color covers and black-and-white interior pages. Note page counts: every issue of TABOO was jam-packed with top-drawer stories and art. ENTER THE WORLD OF TABOO!
(1988, SpiderBaby Grafix, 112 pages) It all started here! Horrific painted cover by Bissette, back cover by Rolf Stark; introduction by Clive Barker. Features stories and art by
* Bissette,
* Alan Moore and Bill Wray,
* Tom Sniegoski and Mike Hoffman,
* Bernie Mireault,
* Jack Butterworth and Cam Kennedy,
* Chester Brown,
* Greg Irons,
* “Kitty Killer Kids” by S. Clay Wilson,
* “Scarecrow” by Charles Vess,
* Eddie Campbell’s first “Pyjama Girl” true-crime tale,
* and the notorious “Chigger and the Man” by Keith Giffen and Robert Loren Fleming.
* PLUS: Charles Burns’ seminal “Contagious,” honored as one of the top comics narratives of the decade and precursor to Burns’ current series BLACK HOLE;
* and the first installment of Tim Lucas and Mike Hoffman’s renowned “Throat Sprockets.”
This is the RARE original 1988 Graphic Novel Anthology edited by legendary Swamp Thing artist Steve Bissette, and was never sold in any mass market retail outlets. It was only available to purchase through comic book specialty shops.
PUBLISHED IN 1989. 1ST EDITION. IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND!
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