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Taboo #6
Taboo #6
Taboo is a comics anthology edited by Steve Bissette, designed to feature edgier and more adult comics than those published through mainstream publishers. The series began as a horror anthology, but soon branched out into other genres as well.
This issue features work from Charles Burns, Rick Grimes, and S. Clay Wilson, as well as Jeff Nicholson's Through the Habitrails, chapters two and three of Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls and the fifth chapter of Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's From Hell. Direct Market subscription copies include a 16-page chapbook The Sweeney Todd 'Penny Dreadful' by Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli, promoting their proposed serial Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
This issue features work from Charles Burns, Rick Grimes, and S. Clay Wilson, as well as Jeff Nicholson's Through the Habitrails, chapters two and three of Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls and the fifth chapter of Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's From Hell. Direct Market subscription copies include a 16-page chapbook The Sweeney Todd 'Penny Dreadful' by Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli, promoting their proposed serial Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
122 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1992
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Stephen R. Bissette
264 books51 followersStephen R. Bissette is an American comics artist, editor, and publisher with a focus on the horror genre. He is best known for working with writer Alan Moore and inker John Totleben on the DC comic Swamp Thing in the 1980s.
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May 9, 2020
Love the Charles Burns photo comic and "Through the Habitrails" fragments. I don't come across much comic work these days that's so dark, disorienting, and eerily open-ended.
June 10, 2023
Aside from continuing Jeff Nicholson's "Through the Habitrails", Alan Moore's & Eddie Campbell's "From Hell" and Alan Moore's & Melinda Gebbe's "Lost Girls", Taboo #6 has stories from talent like Neil (and his daughter, Holly) Gaiman, Mike Zulli, Nancy J. O'Connor, Charles Burns and Rick Grimes.
The Charles Burns story, "The Cat Woman Returns", was easily my favorite piece here. Instead of relying on his distinctive heavy linework with sharp contrats, Burns opts to make his own fumetti of a vengeful ex-lover threatening to kill his current girlfriend. The photographs are delightfully awkward and even creepy, making for a really intruiging horror comic. I'm not usually one for photo comics, but Burns somehow pulls this off.
There is an insert for a Gaiman/Zulli adaptation of "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber on Fleet Street" that was pretty cool. But the story by Gaiman's five-year-old daughter Holly was surprisingly strong. Supposedly, Gaiman had mailed his daughter's story to Mike Zulli who decided he wanted to draw it. Zulli takes the child-like innocence of Holly's story and twists it into something eerie and rather disturbing. Just shows how scary kids can actually be.
The Charles Burns story, "The Cat Woman Returns", was easily my favorite piece here. Instead of relying on his distinctive heavy linework with sharp contrats, Burns opts to make his own fumetti of a vengeful ex-lover threatening to kill his current girlfriend. The photographs are delightfully awkward and even creepy, making for a really intruiging horror comic. I'm not usually one for photo comics, but Burns somehow pulls this off.
There is an insert for a Gaiman/Zulli adaptation of "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber on Fleet Street" that was pretty cool. But the story by Gaiman's five-year-old daughter Holly was surprisingly strong. Supposedly, Gaiman had mailed his daughter's story to Mike Zulli who decided he wanted to draw it. Zulli takes the child-like innocence of Holly's story and twists it into something eerie and rather disturbing. Just shows how scary kids can actually be.
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