Back in 1986, Fantagraphics Books published a short series of benefit comics entitled "Anything Goes." I made two contributions to this project. One was the color Captain Jack story called "The Laundromat at the Edge of Everything" (with me doing the lot-- it can seen in my scraps section) and some pencils for another story entitled "In Pictopia."

In Pictopia was written by one Alan Moore, and was to be illustrated by my high school chum, Donald "Megaton Man" Simpson. There were a few panels involving some funny animal characters that Don asked me to pencil. Similarly, Pete Poplasky penciled in a number of famous comic strip characters. Don did the rest of the pencils on this 13 page epic, and inked the whole thing. Eric Vincent did the blue-line colors.

This story was re-printed in various anthologies several times over the years (and at least two more times it was going to be printed again and then cancelled.) Often the reproduction in these reprints was bad, sometimes being reproduced by scanning the comic book and/or making new color separations. Well, it's about to be reprinted again. This time Fantagraphics is going to print it as a stand-alone story, and this time it will be re-produced from Don's original art, and from Eric's original blue-line paintings. I just saw a PDF file of the book, and it looks very good. The book will also include some extra illustrations, and several historical essays.

The celebrated Mister Moore has as of late has become a bit of a crank, and insisted that his name be left off of the comic, so don't look for his name on the cover.