AARGH (Artists Against Rampant Government Homophobia)

"AARGH!" redirects here. For the computer game, see Aaargh!.
AARGH! (Artists Against Rampant Government Homophobia)

Cover to AARGH! Art by Dave McKean.
Publication information
Publisher Mad Love
Format One-shot
Genre
    Publication date March 1988
    Number of issues 1
    Creative team
    Writer(s) Alan Moore
    David Lloyd
    Neil Gaiman
    Bryan Talbot
    Dave Sim
    Groc
    Geoff Ryman
    Alexei Sayle
    Hunt Emerson
    Sue Hyde
    David Leach
    Dave Gibbons
    Dave Thorpe
    David Shenton
    Charles Shaar Murray
    Posy Simmonds
    Dick Foreman
    Roz Kaveney
    Garry Leach
    Howard Cruse
    Bill Sienkiewicz
    Harvey Pekar
    Art Spiegelman
    Kevin O'Neill
    Steven Appleby
    Kate Charlesworth
    Jennie Wilson
    Lisa Power
    Izzy Islam
    Robert Crumb
    Brian Bolland
    Dominic Regan
    Savage Pencil
    Phil Elliot
    Tony Reeves
    Frank Miller
    Kathy Acker
    Jamie Delano
    Mark Vicars
    Joyce Brabner
    Debbie Delano
    Phyllis Moore
    Artist(s) Steve Bissette
    David Lloyd
    Rick Veitch
    Dave Gibbons
    Groc
    Grahame Baker
    Oscar Zarate
    Hunt Emerson
    David Leach
    Lin Jammet
    David Shenton
    Floyd Hughes
    Posy Simmonds
    Dick Foreman
    Graham Higgins
    Garry Leach
    Howard Cruse
    Bill Sienkiewicz
    Joe Zabel
    Gary Dumm
    Art Spiegelman
    Kevin O'Neill
    Steven Appleby
    Bryan Talbot
    Mark Buckingham
    Kate Charlesworth
    Dave Sim
    Gerhard
    Izzy Islam
    Robert Crumb
    Brian Bolland
    Dominic Regan
    Savage Pencil
    Phil Elliot
    Tony Reeves
    Frank Miller
    Shane Oakley
    Denys Howard
    Jaime Hernandez
    Gilbert Hernandez
    Letterer(s) David Lloyd
    Groc
    Dave Gibbons
    Hunt Emerson
    David Leach
    Lin Jammet
    David Shenton
    Floyd Hughes
    Posy Simmonds
    Dick Foreman
    Graham Higgins
    Garry Leach
    Howard Cruse
    Bill Sienkiewicz
    Gary Dumm
    Art Spiegelman
    Steven Appleby
    Steve Cradock
    Kate Charlesworth
    Izzy Islam
    Robert Crumb
    Brian Bolland
    Dominic Regan
    Savage Pencil
    Phil Elliot
    Tony Reeves
    Frank Miller
    Tom Frame
    Editor(s) Debbie Delano
    Phyllis Moore
    Collected editions
    Aargh! ISBN 0-9513726-0-2

    AARGH (Artists Against Rampant Government Homophobia) was a 76-page one-off comics anthology published by Mad Love in 1988.

    The comic was designed to aid the fight against Clause 28, which was a controversial amendment to the Local Government Act 1988, a British law which was designed to outlaw the promotion of homosexuality by local authorities. At that time Alan Moore, who was in a relationship with his wife and their girlfriend, felt that the law was heterosexist and that it would obviously affect them personally. To help their fight Moore formed Mad Love, his own publishing company, to release AARGH.

    The title was a mixed collection of almost 40 stories, mostly comics with some text pieces. Moore himself contributed an eight-page story called "The Mirror of Love", with Steve Bissette and Rick Veitch providing art. Other creators included Robert Crumb, Howard Cruse, Hunt Emerson, Neil Gaiman, Dave Gibbons, Los Bros Hernandez, Garry Leach, Dave McKean, Frank Miller, Harvey Pekar, Savage Pencil, Bill Sienkiewicz, Dave Sim, Posy Simmonds, Art Spiegelman, and Bryan Talbot.

    Clause 28 was eventually repealed in 2003. Moore has also reworked "The Mirror of Love" with illustrator José Villarrubia for Top Shelf Productions.

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