Taboo (comics)

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Taboo #1 (Fall 1988). Art by Stephen R. Bissette.
Publication information
Publisher Spiderbaby Grafix & Publications
Kitchen Sink Press
ScheduleIrregular
Format Ongoing series
Genre Horror fiction, anthology
Publication dateFall 1988–1992 (Spiderbaby Grafix)
June–Sept. 1995 (Kitchen Sink)
No. of issues9
Editor(s) Stephen R. Bissette

Taboo is a comics anthology edited by Steve Bissette that was designed to feature edgier and more adult comics than could be published through mainstream publishers. The series began as a horror anthology, but soon branched out into other genres as well. It was published by various imprints from 1988 to 1995.

Contents

Taboo most notably serialized Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's From Hell , Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls , and Tim Lucas, Mike Hoffman and David Lloyd's Throat Sprockets, which became the basis of Lucas' prose novel of the same name. It also featured work by Moebius, Chester Brown, Neil Gaiman, Dave Sim, Michael Zulli, Al Columbia, and Charles Vess. An early version of Charles Burns coming of age body horror graphic novel, Black Hole, features in the first issue as Contagious. [1]

Publication history

Each issue of Taboo was at least one hundred pages long, featuring many stories per issue. Bissette's own imprint Spiderbaby Grafix & Publications published the first seven issues, as well as a "Taboo Especial" one-shot, from 1988 until 1992. Kitchen Sink Press released two additional issues in 1995.

Awards

Taboo won the "Best Anthology" Eisner Award in 1993. [2]

Notes

  1. Bissette, Stephen R. (1989). Taboo - Issue 1 (1st ed.). Wilmington, Vermont: Spiderbaby Grafix & Publications. pp. 36–40. ISBN   9780922003006.
  2. 1993 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominees and Winners, the Comic Book Awards Almanac

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