1st Ed AARGH (Mad Love 1988) Landmark Anti-Homophobia Gay Comic Robert Crumb for Sale

1st Ed AARGH (Mad Love 1988) Landmark Anti-Homophobia Gay Comic Robert Crumb For Sale

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1st Ed AARGH (Mad Love 1988) Landmark Anti-Homophobia Gay Comic Robert Crumb:
$49.50

- First EditionLandmark Anti-Homophobia Comic-AARGH!
(\"Artists Against Rampant Government Homophobia\")
[FIRST EDITION] Northampton, England: Mad Love (Publishing) Ltd., 1988. Softcover in pictorial stapled wrappers. Measures 10-3/4 x 8-1/4 inches; 72 pages illustrated throughout with b/w comic-style drawings.The first & only edition, first printing of October 1988 as indicated on copyright page (inner front cover).
AARGH! Was an 1988 all-Star comics project to benefit Organization for Lesbian and Gay Action, and includes original contributions from the likes of Alan Moore, Steve Bissette, Rick Veitch, Geoff Ryman, Dave Gibbons, Hunt Emerson, Garry Leach, Howard Cruse, Bill Sienkiewicz, Harvey Pekar, Art Spiegelman, Kevin O\'Neil, Neil Gaiman, Mark Buckingham, Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez, Dave Sim, Robert Crumb, Brian Bolland, Jamie Delano, Kathy Acker, Frank Miller, Roz Kaveney and others.
Creasing to upper corner front cover otherwise very good overall condition; no owner marking, NOT EX-LIBRARY.During 1988, an amendment was added to a Local Government Act in Britain, known as Clause 28, which outlawed the \"promotion of homosexuality.\" In reaction, a group of artists & few writers led by Alan Moore gathered to produce this one-off comic book anthology to fight homophobia at a time when the AIDS crisis was at its peak. Among the contributors to this activist anthology are avant-garde, William S. Burroughs-influenced author Kathy Acker; iconic countercultural comix master Robert Crumb; Neil Gaiman, Harvey Pekar of \"American Splendor\" fame, Art Spiegelman, author & illustrator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning holocaust comic epic Maus; & many more including Moore himself, who wrote the first entry, \"The Mirror of Love,\" illustrated by others. The infamous Clause 28 was finally repealed during 2003. An important literary-artistic rarity, & a cautionary historic relic- the gains & ultimate acceptance of LGBT people today (at least in most parts of the world) did not come easily & should not be taken for granted.
\"Our lives are not fashion statements. Taking action is not a fad. Our work is that of vision and persistence. We will use every skill we have, and share what we know. At first we do this simply because we were asked. We know how to organize, to write or draw pictures. As we work, we remember why. We shake the dust from comfortably stored ideals: \"The personal is political.\" This is to stand by our friends. \"We must create and control our own media.\" WE know how. And we have been underestimated.\" (from afterword by Joyce Brabner, pg. 72).

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