We were given all rights to our work, a good page rate, our stories would be in full colour and we could determine the direction they took. It sounds like a dream ticket, doesn’t it?
Yes, apart from Accident Man, there were some other classics. Psychokiller I always thought should have done better. Our reprint version sells well in France for some reason. And Kevin O'Neill and I thought The Driver would be the top story. In this we were wrong. But still loved it. And the Dinner Ladies from Hell.
Good point. A good editor (and a bad editor) is a kind of benign dictator. Doesn't say much for democracy and certainly not for anarchy! Mind you, I have a theory that anarchists were given a bad press, so now it's like a swear word. Similarly, 'agitators' were originally soldiers' spokesmen in the British Civil War. Now we think of agitators as troublemakers. Back to anarchists, it was the terrorism of its day at the start of the 20th century. I don't think they were all 'terrorists', but enough to blacken their name. And certainly no chance of getting the potholes fixed!
I'm an Anarchist and believe in consensual authority i.e you recognise the persons authority over you due to you recognising their experience and are good at their job. You volunteer to operate under their wing, because you choose to and want to. And yes like Pat said the word "Anarchist/Anarchy!" has had a doublethink/newspeak meaning imposed upon us by the international the authorities for the last 140 years! The same way they did with Islam. Islam = Terror. Anarchy = Chaos.
I wasn't using the word in any sort of pejorative sense, In fact, I'm temperamentally drawn to anarchism. I just don't see how it can work on any sort of widespread scale. Nothing did more to put me off anarchism than a conversation I had with a self-described anarchist. Specifically, he was an anarchist-primitivist, who believed that any technology which couldn't be created in a garden shed shouldn't be allowed to exist, and that society should be organised into self-sufficient villages of around 500 people, with no trade or co-operation between them. I asked how you would organise something like a hospital:
"Villages of 500 people wouldn't need hospitals."
"Really? What happens if you get sick?"
"You die."
I get that one guy doesn't speak for all anarchists, but...he didn't exactly sell me on his vision of the ideal society!
Yeah, that's bonkers. And we're also stuck with the capitalist world of today. To modify it would be tough; to change it utterly would lead to bloodshed. Doubtless there are ways but any 'good example' is usually sabotaged or we don't get to hear of it. There's a case for micro-changes in communities or villages and some appear to work.
Aye; the last we, humanity, tried to radically change it; we ended up with an easily exploitable ideal that has lasted several generations and expanded several continents; Communism, or to be more politically authentic; Bolshevism (what i consider to be the more authoritarian ideal of leftist ideals, regardless of time line).
I'd like to think, at the very least, we have this or the next generation to go until we have any hope of productive long term global unity that meets our own current day standards of creative freedom and expression, without any form of external censorship
This; Is something I very much doubt.
But in the meantime, however, I feel currently we are nose diving into a abhorrent system that is taking all the worst aspects of Capitalism and Communism. Filtering them through the guise of government and corporate "social justice" with manufactured positivity being used as a marketing tool to push through laws that restrict our freedoms, as international sovereign individuals, and further.
Which is why any and all forms of subversive creative expression should always be held as essential above all else, all of the time... Funny how, at this time, it all seems to be currently the opposite at the moment....
Haha no that's definitely not me, they sound like a true believer of kaczynski (PBUH) I tend to reject all the adjective "ists" its too controlling and narrow in my opinion. Never mind a hospital; what about a bloody printing press!
Well put, David. Bleak news. And not enough of us subverting! Thanks for your thoughts.
Yes, apart from Accident Man, there were some other classics. Psychokiller I always thought should have done better. Our reprint version sells well in France for some reason. And Kevin O'Neill and I thought The Driver would be the top story. In this we were wrong. But still loved it. And the Dinner Ladies from Hell.
Good point. A good editor (and a bad editor) is a kind of benign dictator. Doesn't say much for democracy and certainly not for anarchy! Mind you, I have a theory that anarchists were given a bad press, so now it's like a swear word. Similarly, 'agitators' were originally soldiers' spokesmen in the British Civil War. Now we think of agitators as troublemakers. Back to anarchists, it was the terrorism of its day at the start of the 20th century. I don't think they were all 'terrorists', but enough to blacken their name. And certainly no chance of getting the potholes fixed!
A comic ahead of it's time, I always thought. Had no idea there was so much going on behind the scenes!
This is why I'm not an anarchist. Imagine Toxic on a national or regional scale. Good luck trying to get your potholes fixed.
I'm an Anarchist and believe in consensual authority i.e you recognise the persons authority over you due to you recognising their experience and are good at their job. You volunteer to operate under their wing, because you choose to and want to. And yes like Pat said the word "Anarchist/Anarchy!" has had a doublethink/newspeak meaning imposed upon us by the international the authorities for the last 140 years! The same way they did with Islam. Islam = Terror. Anarchy = Chaos.
I wasn't using the word in any sort of pejorative sense, In fact, I'm temperamentally drawn to anarchism. I just don't see how it can work on any sort of widespread scale. Nothing did more to put me off anarchism than a conversation I had with a self-described anarchist. Specifically, he was an anarchist-primitivist, who believed that any technology which couldn't be created in a garden shed shouldn't be allowed to exist, and that society should be organised into self-sufficient villages of around 500 people, with no trade or co-operation between them. I asked how you would organise something like a hospital:
"Villages of 500 people wouldn't need hospitals."
"Really? What happens if you get sick?"
"You die."
I get that one guy doesn't speak for all anarchists, but...he didn't exactly sell me on his vision of the ideal society!
Yeah, that's bonkers. And we're also stuck with the capitalist world of today. To modify it would be tough; to change it utterly would lead to bloodshed. Doubtless there are ways but any 'good example' is usually sabotaged or we don't get to hear of it. There's a case for micro-changes in communities or villages and some appear to work.
Aye; the last we, humanity, tried to radically change it; we ended up with an easily exploitable ideal that has lasted several generations and expanded several continents; Communism, or to be more politically authentic; Bolshevism (what i consider to be the more authoritarian ideal of leftist ideals, regardless of time line).
I'd like to think, at the very least, we have this or the next generation to go until we have any hope of productive long term global unity that meets our own current day standards of creative freedom and expression, without any form of external censorship
This; Is something I very much doubt.
But in the meantime, however, I feel currently we are nose diving into a abhorrent system that is taking all the worst aspects of Capitalism and Communism. Filtering them through the guise of government and corporate "social justice" with manufactured positivity being used as a marketing tool to push through laws that restrict our freedoms, as international sovereign individuals, and further.
Which is why any and all forms of subversive creative expression should always be held as essential above all else, all of the time... Funny how, at this time, it all seems to be currently the opposite at the moment....
Haha no that's definitely not me, they sound like a true believer of kaczynski (PBUH) I tend to reject all the adjective "ists" its too controlling and narrow in my opinion. Never mind a hospital; what about a bloody printing press!
He actually edited and published a zine, though in fairness, it looked like it was created using potato printing.
Was this now famous and argumentative writer, with the Tarantino vibe story from Ireland?