Acker Kathy Alan Moore Contributors (1 results)
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by Tripping Yarns, Northampton, England 1988
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Dividing Line Books, Ridgewood, NY, U.S.A.Dividing Line Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
£ 77.84
Free ShippingShips within U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Northampton, England: Tripping Yarns, [1988]. 48pp; b&w illus. 4to. Saddle-stapled in illustrated wraps. Better than very good, with short tear and crease at bottom front corner. Second issue of this fanzine focused primarily on music and underground comics. This issue notable for c…ontaining a four-page interview with experimental writer Kathy Acker by English comic book writer and novelist Alan Moore. Other contents include interviews with alt-rock bands Killdozer, Butthole Surfers, and Kray Cherubs; an interview with comics artist Edwin Pouncey, aka Savage Pencil (who supplied the cover illustration); an interview with Tony Bennet of underground comic publisher Knockabout Comics; a one-page critical summa of Clause 28 of the 1987 Local Government Bill, which limited LGBTQ rights in England; record and zine reviews; comix; etc. Copiously illustrated throughout in black-and-white. Co-editor Alistair Fruish, a school student at the time, would go on to pursue his own career as a novelist, and is credited as one of four editors of Alan Moore's 2016 novel Jerusalem.
