Melinda Gebbie, who co-created the acclaimed erotic masterwork Lost Girls with her husband Alan Moore, has released a large format full colour retrospective of her artistic career.
Published by Mad Love, Melinda Gebbie’s Greatest Fits is exclusively available from Knockabout.
You can buy the book, priced £59.99, through this link. Use the code EARLYMEL10 to get a discount
Melinda Gebbie was a Haight-Ashbury runaway in 1967; a post-war glamour girl, a compulsive delineator since her childhood she emerged as perhaps the most accomplished artist in the predominantly masculine San Francisco underground comics movement of the 1960s and 70s.
Moving to the UK, she worked as an old-school animator on Raymond Briggs’ harrowing When the Wind Blows, and has the unique accolade for a contemporary artist of having her pioneering book Fresca Zizis declared obscene by a British Court and subsequently burnt. It remains illegal to have a copy in the UK.
Attracted to the field’s most marginalised and least-explored territories – politics, female identity, fetishism and unflinching autobiography – she crafted bulletins on everything from anarchist Emma Goldman to a first-hand account of the British Miner’s strike, taking in talking vulvas, Marat-Sade, and surrealist French poets on the way. The book gives insight into these and into her work as the creator of a multitude of visionary canvases that span the jewelled ground between the mystical and the psychedelic.
By turn sexy, funny, scathing, human and profound. Gebbie’s extraordinary work distills a woman’s experience in the late 20th century western world into every blazing line.
• You can buy the book, priced £59.99, through this link. Use the code EARLYMEL10 to get a discount
Melinda Gebbie’s Greatest Fits
Hard Cover, Oversized Art Book Available Now
Size: 235mm x 312mm x 35mm – 312 pages
Includes an introduction by Dr. Melanie West, PHD Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego
Signed book plate, limited to 1000 copies
• More about Melinda Gebbie at melindagebbie.com
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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