Knockabout Comics

Knockabout Comics is a UK publisher and distributor of underground and alternative comic books.

History

It was formed by Tony Bennett and Carol Bennett in the 1980s to distribute Gilbert Shelton's "Freak Brothers" titles as well as British work from creators such as Hunt Emerson and Bryan Talbot.

Knockabout has frequently suffered from prosecutions from UK customs, who have seized work by creators such as Robert Crumb and Melinda Gebbie claiming it to be obscene.

They currently have a diverse catalogue of titles and, with Top Shelf, will be publishing volume three of Alan Moore's "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" in 2008. [ [http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog.php?type=2&title=583 Catalog > Top Shelf Productions ] ]

Titles

Titles published include:

*"Seven Deadly Sins"
*"Fresca Zizis" (by Melinda Gebbie)
*"From Hell" (by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, trade paperback)
*"A Disease of Language" (adapted by Eddie Campbell, from Alan Moore's "The Birth Caul" and "Snakes and Ladders" with interview from "Egomania Magazine", hardcover, 160 pages, 2006, ISBN 0861661532)
*"Yesterday's Tomorrows: Rian Hughes Collected Comics" (by Rian Hughes, 256 pages, 2007, ISBN 0861661540)
*"The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III" (by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, 2008, forthcoming)

References