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Did you miss out on TABOO?TABOO was a meaty, cutting-edge, Eisner Award-winning trade paperbackanthology of adult horror comics and comix SpiderBaby Grafix publishedand co-published (with Tundra and Kitchen Sink, respectively) from1989-1995. Ten issues in all were completed — TABOO #1-9 and a one-shotspecial, TABOO ESPECIAL — and each issue offered over 100 pages oftop-drawer stories and art from creators like Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell(in fact, Moore and Campbell’s celebrated From Hell was originallycreated for and serialized in TABOO), Jean “Moebius” Giraud, RickVeitch, Charles Burns, S. Clay Wilson, Charles Vess, Spain, Mark Bode,and countless others. Read more: The Taboo Legacy
We’ll be offering back issues of TABOO to you as long as our backstock remains. We’ve just had to up the prices a bit due to dwindling stocks of key issues — once they’re gone, they’re gone! These will be limited-time offers, so keep your eye on this site! For a limited time, the following issues of TABOO are for sale to readers, collectors, and curious parties. Because quantities are extremely limited, I urge any interested visitors to act NOW if you want to pick these rarities up. Once these are gone, they are gone for GOOD!
| SPIDERBABY STORE TABOO SPECIAL OFFER:
Want to find out what TABOO is like without dropping big bucks? Now’s your chance! For a limited time, you can purchase a sample issue” of TABOO for only $6.00 plus shipping! Some of our TABOO backstock has suffered minimal wear of some sort — scuffed back covers, slight warpage due to packing, etc. Though these issues are still complete, tight, and in good shape, we will not sell them at full price. This means YOU can check out a sample issue of TABOO at a deep discount! We choose the issue based on available damaged stock (probably issue #4), so don’t even consider telling us which issue you want. We’ll ignore your request completely. See, you get what we send you, AS IS, but you get it CHEAP! Don’t delay! Be sure to indicate
TABOO SPECIAL OFFER when you order, then hold on to your seat! TABOO will be on its way, and you’ll NEVER be the same again! |
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THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT (Please read carefully):
YOU MUST BE OVER 18 YEARS OF AGE TO ORDER TABOO. A signed age statement MUST accompany every order.
ORDERS FROM OUTSIDE THE U.S. ORDER AT THEIR OWN RISK. Canadian and UK customs in particular have targetted TABOO over the years. Though all orders are shipped in a timely fashion and every reasonable attempt is made to ensure the customer receives their order (we try, and we have our methods), we cannot be responsible for orders seized by customs.
Sorry: customs seizure does not result in refund. NO EXCEPTIONS.
Also please note that although every effort is made to provide mint-condition copies of each issue, the lack of cover lamination on the first four issues of TABOO does mean that the back covers of a few copies (particularly #3) have suffered some wear. Prices listed are for copies shipped AS IS. Each issue is shipped bagged and protected from any further wear or damage.
Supplies are subject to current availability.
Remember, upon your request I will sign and personalize ANY purchase at no additional cost.
Each issue is trade-paperback format, with full-color covers and black-and-white interior pages. Note page counts: every issue of TABOO was jam-packed with top-drawer stories and art. ENTER THE WORLD OF TABOO!CURRENTLY AVAILABLE ISSUES: Taboo 1 through 3 are RARE and GOING FAST! Final Sale Copies — stock is almost GONE!
TABOO #1
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 (1988, SpiderBaby Grafix, 112 pages) It all started here! Horrific painted cover by Bissette, back cover by Rolf Stark; introduction by Clive Barker. Features stories and art by Bissette, Alan Moore and Bill Wray, Tom Sniegoski and Mike Hoffman, Bernie Mireault, Jack Butterworth and Cam Kennedy, Chester Brown, Greg Irons, “Kitty Killer Kids” by S. Clay Wilson, “Scarecrow” by Charles Vess, Eddie Campbell’s first “Pyjama Girl” true-crime tale, and the notorious “Chigger and the Man” by Keith Giffen and Robert Loren Fleming. PLUS: Charles Burns’ seminal “Contagious,” honored as one of the top comics narratives of the decade and precursor to Burns’ current series BLACK HOLE; and the first installment of Tim Lucas and Mike Hoffman’s renowned “Throat Sprockets.” $45.00 US plus post/shipping. Email msbissette@yahoo.com for special shipping options.
Quantities are EXTREMELY limited, and will be exhausted SOON.
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TABOO #2
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 (1989, SpiderBaby Grafix, 144 pages) This issue is RARE, and soon to be completely out of stock! DON’T WAIT — They’ll soon be ALL GONE! Painted cover by John Totleben, back cover by Charles Lang. This was the first issue to truly live up to its title: rejected by production houses, printers, and binders, banned by Canadian and British customs! This most-sought-after of all TABOOs is also the hardest-to-find due to defective bindings (all copies shipped with solid bindings, but handle them with care!) and its collector’s stature as the debut showcase of Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s justifiably famed serialized graphic novel FROM HELL. Along with the first TWO installments of FROM HELL (Prologue and Chapter One) and Alan Moore’s lovely two-color FROM HELL inside back cover illustration, this chilling issue features stories and art by Bissette, Clive Barker, Paul Chadwick, S. Clay Wilson, Richard Sala, Michael Zulli, Bernie Mireault, Rick Grimes, Tom Marnick, Mark Askwith and Rick Taylor, an inventive ‘walking dead’ story by David Marshall, and many more.
QUANTITIES ARE EXTREMELY LIMITED!! This will be out of stock SOON, and once it’s gone, it’s GONE. $65.00 plus post/shipping; email msbissette@yahoo.com for special shipping options. FEW LEFT — Don’t delay!!!
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TABOO #3
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 (1989, SpiderBaby Grafix, 128 pages) RARE and also out-of-stock! Unnerving painted cover by Michael Zulli, back cover by Simoneda Perica-Uth; full-color inside covers by Rolf Stark and another FROM HELL portrait by Alan Moore. FROM HELL continues, along with Tim Lucas and Mike Hoffman’s remarkable “Throat Sprockets” and Rolf Stark’s harrowing “Love in the Afternoon,” which inspired (and was featured in) Stark’s subsequent graphic novel RAIN. Also: Moebius, Rick Grimes, Rick Veitch and Jack Weiner, Glen Dakin and Phil Elliott, Jim Wheelock’s “One Good Trick,” Bernie Mireault’s “Poker Face,” and more. More customs seizures compromised distribution of this issue, though it’s interesting to note that New Zealand seized and then approved TABOO (for adults only) after a full assessment of its contents. $45.00 US plus post/shipping; email msbissette@yahoo.com for special shipping options.
Quantities are EXTREMELY limited; this will SOON be completely OUT OF STOCK. PLEASE NOTE: Due to the lack of cover lamination, many copies of this issue suffered some wear on the back covers. Orders are accepted and shipped AS IS.
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TABOO #4
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 (1990, SpiderBaby Grafix, 168 pages) – Full-color cover by Moebius sets off over 160 pages of ground-breaking horror from around the world. Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli propose a new kind of infant formula in “Baby Cakes”… Elaine Lee and Charles Vess stage a young girl’s mystical “coming of age” in the deep forests of “Morrigan Tales”… Mark Askwith and Rick Taylor carry Little Nemo kicking and screaming into the nightmarish realm of “Davey’s Dream”… Tim Lucas and Steven Blue give a new spin to the Roy Orbison standby “Blue Angel”… and much, much more! Special “yellow pages” offer the first and only English language reprint of the rare Moebius masterpiece “Eyes of the Cat,” written by renowned author and film director Alejandro Jodorowsky (The Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre), accompanied by exclusive interviews with the creators, articles on the making of the story, and Spain’s never-before-reprinted underground comix adaptation of Jodorowsky’s midnight movie classic, El Topo.Moebius and Jodorowsky fans, take note: Starwatcher Graphics has informed us that this will probably remain the ONLY North American publication of “EYES OF THE CAT” for the foreseeable future.
Pick up your copy while you can, especially at this low price! This one-of-a-kind issue can be yours for only $20.00 plus shipping; email msbissette@yahoo.com for special shipping options. If you wish founder/editor/publisher Steve Bissette to sign and personalize your copy, just ask — our gift to you, free of charge, upon request.
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TABOO #5
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 (1991, SpiderBaby Grafix/Tundra Publishing, 130 pages) One of the best issues ever, sandwiched between an eerie painted front cover by Jeff Jones and back cover by Michael Zulli — plus full-color interior covers by Melinda Gebbie (a lovely LOST GIRLS portrait) and Rolf Stark, and a new introduction by Douglas E. Winter, illustrated by Clive Barker. Two new series debuted this issue: Jeff Nicholson’s Kafkaesque THROUGH THE HABITRAILS (launched with three full chapters), and Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s ambitious full-color LOST GIRLS. Moore and Campbell’s FROM HELL continues; novelist James Ellroy introduces Tom Marnick and Dennis Ellefson’s truly horrific Black Dahlia narrative “39th and Norton”; Michael Zulli lavishly adapts Ramsey Campbell’s terrifying short story “Again”; P.J. Kenyon and S. Clay Wilson’s offer a vivid snapshot of depraved love, obsession, and dire consequences in the aptly-named “This Is Dynamite”; illustrated poetry and verse by Jeff Jones, Michael Price, and Adrian Martinez; Mark Nelson monsters; more Rick Grimes weirdness; and Matt Howarth’s “Baby’s On Fire.” This was the first of four issues co-published with Tundra Publishing, considerably enhancing TABOO’s already high production and printing standards. This is also when TABOO’s circulation dropped due to ongoing customs busts and the subsequent Canadian and UK distributors’ decision to cease carrying the title. This issue, too, was seized and passed (for adult readers only) by New Zealand customs. Just $35.00 plus shipping, while the supply lasts. Email msbissette@yahoo.com for special shipping options.
Quantities are limited.
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TABOO #6
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 SORRY, SOLD OUT!(1992, SpiderBaby Grafix/Tundra Publishing, 122 pages) Surreal front cover by Cru Zen and disturbing back cover by Mark Martin frame another fine issue, featuring Charles Burns previously-unpublished photo fumetti (and first-ever comics narrative work) “The Cat Woman Returns.” Plus: Neil Gaiman and Nancy (now Marlene) O’Connor’s portrait of domestic bliss “Blood Monster,” and (then) five-year old Holly Gaiman’s “Holly’s Story,” dreamily delineated by the one and only Michael Zulli; more illness from Rick Grimes and S. Clay Wilson; Moore and Campbell’s FROM HELL, Moore and Gebbie’s LOST GIRLS (two chapters in full color), and Jeff Nicholson’s THROUGH THE HABITRAILS continue.
NOTE: SpiderBaby’s backstock of this issue is completely GONE! SORRY, SOLD OUT! There are no further copies in stock.
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SPECIAL OFFER: Originally shrink-wrapped with TABOO 6 was the rare 16-page promotional “Sweeney Todd Penny Dreadful” by Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli, a unique booklet detailing and introducing their (never completed) serialized graphic novel SWEENEY TODD. This promotional item was initially shipped with pre-ordered copies ONLY. We DO have a small supply of these Penny Dreadfuls available — QUANTITIES ARE VERY LIMITED. This is a rare opportunity. Don’t hesitate — order TODAY! Yours for only $5.00 US plus shipping fees . Quantities are VERY limited.
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TABOO #7
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 (1992, SpiderBaby Grafix/Tundra Publishing, 158 pages) Jarring Joe Coleman cover and brain-sizzling Brian Sendelbach back cover bracket this bonanza of bone-chilling bile. The first and only installment of Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli’s SWEENEY TODD highlights this final SpiderBaby/Tundra issue of TABOO, marking the end of the grand experiment the very year TABOO won the Eisner Award for Best Anthology (after being nominated three years in a row). Also terminated prematurely were the ongoing series featured here, Moore and Campbell’s FROM HELL (continued and concluded by Kitchen Sink), Moore and Gebbie’s LOST GIRLS (still lost: reprinted, but as yet uncontinued, by Kitchen Sink), and Jeff Nicholson’s excellent THROUGH THE HABITRAILS (completed and self-published by Jeff as a graphic novel). Also in this “monster” issue: Kenneth Smith’s adaptation of Franz Kafka’s “Odradek”; Joe Coleman’s “A Good Christian”; Jack Butterworth and Eric Vincent’s “Bad Things”; David Thorpe and Aidan Potts’ AFTERLIFE interlude, “Marquis My Love” (intended as the launch of another series, which indeed continued in TABOO #9); Rick Grimes, P. Foerster, and more.
NOTE: The remaining SpiderBaby stock of TABOO #7 is the special pre-order expanded edition featuring Bissette’s 24-page 24-Hour-Comic “A Life In Black and White.” Due to a completely inexplicable Tundra marketing scheme, this extra did not appear in 2000 copies of this issue. QUANTITIES ARE VERY LIMITED. Get it while you can!
$75.00 US plus shipping fees; email msbissette@yahoo.com for special shipping options. Quantities are EXTREMELY limited.
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TABOO #8
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 (1995, Kitchen Sink Press, 128 pages) The death throes — the first of two final volumes prepared and packaged by Stephen Bissette for publisher Kitchen Sink Press (in the short window of life they enjoyed after the ‘merger’ with Tundra, which effectively brought Kitchen Sink Press to the end of its publishing history — but that’s another story). The last of the unpublished TABOO material was accepted by Kitchen Sink publisher Denis Kitchen and shaped with editor Phil Amara into TABOO 8 and 9; Amara alone was credited, though both volumes were indeed prepared with Bissette (who chose to forego credit) — there are no story introductions in these final two volumes. This penultimate volume is nonetheless an undiluted dose of pure TABOO terror, opening with a three-page introduction by Bissette, front cover by Charles Lang, back cover by Michael Zulli, inside front cover by Jean ‘Moebius’ Giraud. Features stories and art by Jeff Jones, David Sexton and P. Craig Russell, Matt Howarth, Alec Stevens’ adaptation of a classic short story by Wladyslaw Reymont, two Rick Grimes stories, the final installment of “Throat Sprockets” in its comics form by Tim Lucas and David Lloyd, “johnny 23″ by Al Columbia, “All She Does Is Eat” by Jack Butterworth and SPAWN artist Greg Capullo, and the complete original, uncut version of Jeff Nicholson’s THROUGH THE HABITRAILS chapter “Cat Lover.” $30 plus post/shipping; email msbissette@yahoo.com for special shipping options. Quantities are EXTREMELY limited, and will be exhausted SOON.
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TABOO #9
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 (1995, Kitchen Sink Press, 128 pages) It all ended here — this is the final issue of TABOO! See notes for TABOO 8, above; a must for all TABOO fans. Painted covers by Alan M. Clarke, inside cover paintings by Paul Komoda and Kenneth Smith. This tombstone issue features an introduction by Dave Sim, the definitive TABOO chronology and a historical archival afterword “Taboo is Taboo” by Stephen Bissette, and stories and art by Jan Neruda and Alec Stevens, Jeff Dickinson, Stephen Blue, Chet Williamson and Tim Truman, Tony Salmons, Mark David Dietz, Phil Hester, Angela Bocage, James Robert Smith and Mike Hoffman’s “The New Ecology of Death,” and David Thorpe and Aidan Potts’s “After Life.” PLUS: Michael H. Price and Lamberto Alvarez’s “Gator Bait,” detailing the true Texan crime spree of serial killer Joe Ball, inspiration for Tobe Hooper’s classic feature film EATEN ALIVE. Quantities are limited and will be out of stock SOON, and once it’s gone, it’s GONE. This is the final issue of Taboo ever published; $30.00 plus post/shipping; email msbissette@yahoo.com for special shipping options.
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Buy your signed copy of The Vermont Monster Guide directly from the illustrator! 
Did you miss The Vermont Ghost Guide? This was author Joseph A. Citro and illustrator Stephen R. Bissette’s first guidebook project for their native state’s horrific haunts!
Time-travel to an era of dragons and monsters with the Tyrant? Paleo-Pack! Featuring all four issues to date of S.R. Bissette’s Tyrant?, lovingly detailing the nesting of the mother Tyrannosaurus rex and the birth of baby Tyrant. This rigorously detailed and carefully researched portrait of life and death in the late Cretaceous world of prehistoric passions and terrors features some of Bissette’s finest black-and-white art and writing ever, and four ravishing full-color painted covers. each signed by the artist. You get “Knock Knock,” “Blood and Berries,” and the first installment of “Dreams and Bones,” four helpings of Mark Martin’s hilarious “Bless the Beasts,” and lots of extras (see individual issue listings above).
A broken path of blood and destruction leads a hungry egg-raider to the T. rex nest. There’s more than meets the eye in the first installment of chapter two, “Blood and Berries.” Also in this issue: Mark Martin’s hilarious “Bless the Beasts” continues, plus lively letters from readers, scientists, and one of the Post Brothers going postal; eulogy to the late Doug Wildey, creator of Jonny Quest; the sad tale of Sue, the infamous T. rex fossil that landed a prominent fossil-hunter in jail; a young paleontology student’s informative (and illustrated) scientific critique of the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park; illustrated reviews of The Flintstones and other dino-video extravaganzas; comics and books reviewed; “The Gizzard,” and an eye-popping painted cover by Bissette! Color covers, 32 black-and-white pages for just $3.00 plus shipping. If you want your copy personalized, just say the magic word!
There’s never been a comic like this one!
A new chapter, “Dreams and Bones,” begins in this issue, featuring Bissette’s finest story and artwork ever. Eggsucker is back, drawn to the Tyrannosaur nest at the moment of baby Tyrant’s birth. The climax will leave you tongue-tied and panting for more! Plus: Mark Martin’s “Bless the Beasts,” letters, and comics reviews, and Douglas E. Winter’s “In Praise of Rubber Monsters,” a lavishly illustrated ode to Rodan, The Flying Monster. Another 32 black-and-white page dino-feast lurking beneath another jaw-dropping Bissette cover (painted by Gerhard once again) for only $3.00 plus shipping. Just say the word and your copy can be personalized!
(Daniel Bissette, self-published, February 2006) Ker-Plunk, indeed! Young man about the world Daniel Bissette (bio below) published this, his first zine, and coaxed out of his wayward, reluctant Poppa Bissette the first SR Bissette comic story published in the 21st Century, “Kafka Kaiju-Eiga” (4 pages). This is the story’s only printing to date, and is likely to remain so until enough copies of this modest zine sell to put Daniel through college, with perks. 24 pages, black-and-white, mucho Daniel Bissette art, collages, a recipe, some random cultural debris, spinach, the Blind Dead, more. Signed by both Daniel and Stephen Bissette (3/06, signed upon publication), all for $4.00 plus shipping!
Welcome to my nightmare, indeed! Another splashy full-color painted cover and another 48-page helping of all-Bissette black-and-white ballyhoo kicks off with “Saying Grace,” a tale literally drawn from my nightmares. And if you think having a guardian angel is a blessing, it’s high time you check out my one-and-only 24-hour comic, “A Life in Black and White”… and you’ll be all choked up over “Cottonmouth,” a haunting “period piece” (Choke!).
I want to purchase by check or money order and not paypal – may I?
spiderbaby #1 and spiderbaby #2 signed “for emily”
tell me where to send the money.
please and thank you.
emily
Note to everyone:
Payment via money order is always accepted for domestic orders — just make it payable to and mail it to:
Stephen R. Bissette
PO Box 157
Windsor, VT 05089
Thanks!
Note to all: The 1963 series has been removed from the store (1/15/2010); they’re sold out. Only THE FURY is still in stock, available via the TYRANT PALEO PACK special.