Number of issues 1 | Publication date March 1988 | |
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Writer(s) Alan MooreDavid LloydNeil GaimanBryan TalbotDave SimGrocGeoff RymanAlexei SayleHunt EmersonSue HydeDavid LeachDave GibbonsDave ThorpeDavid ShentonCharles Shaar MurrayPosy SimmondsDick ForemanRoz KaveneyGarry LeachHoward CruseBill SienkiewiczHarvey PekarArt SpiegelmanKevin O'NeillSteven ApplebyKate CharlesworthJennie WilsonLisa PowerIzzy IslamRobert CrumbBrian BollandDominic ReganSavage PencilPhil ElliotTony ReevesFrank MillerKathy AckerJamie DelanoMark VicarsJoyce BrabnerDebbie DelanoPhyllis Moore Artist(s) Steve BissetteDavid LloydRick VeitchDave GibbonsGrocGrahame BakerOscar ZarateHunt EmersonDavid LeachLin JammetDavid ShentonFloyd HughesPosy SimmondsDick ForemanGraham HigginsGarry LeachHoward CruseBill SienkiewiczJoe ZabelGary DummArt SpiegelmanKevin O'NeillSteven ApplebyBryan TalbotMark BuckinghamKate CharlesworthDave SimGerhardIzzy IslamRobert CrumbBrian BollandDominic ReganSavage PencilPhil ElliotTony ReevesFrank MillerShane OakleyDenys HowardJaime HernandezGilbert Hernandez Letterer(s) David LloydGrocDave GibbonsHunt EmersonDavid LeachLin JammetDavid ShentonFloyd HughesPosy SimmondsDick ForemanGraham HigginsGarry LeachHoward CruseBill SienkiewiczGary DummArt SpiegelmanSteven ApplebySteve CradockKate CharlesworthIzzy IslamRobert CrumbBrian BollandDominic ReganSavage PencilPhil ElliotTony ReevesFrank MillerTom Frame Similar Big Numbers, A Small Killing, The Moon and Serpent B, The Ballad of Halo Jones, Tomorrow Stories | ||
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.