Oliver Harris's latest Burroughs study scrutinises the background and publication history of the obscene pamphlet Roosevelt after Inauguration that William Burroughs wrote in 1953. Harris's meticulous research and expertise makes this book another fine edition in Moloko's steadily growing...

The name L’Ambassadeur des Ombres goes back to the French science fiction comic Valérian et Laureline. The series’ sixth episode in particular had an inspiring effect on Jörg ‘Joggy’ Müller, who founded the band together with René Glofke: L’Ambassadeur des Ombres, Ambassador...

In late 1968, shortly before Zap #3 was to be published, Robert Crumb found Xerox copies of the missing pages from the original Zap #1, which (according to Victor Moscoso) successfully captured the linework but not the solid blacks. After being re-inked by Crumb, those strips subsequently...

Scottish novelist Alexander Trocchi co-founded and edited the English literary magazine Merlin in Paris from 1952 to 1954. Merlin was pivotal in publishing works by Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre a.o. in English. After the magazine had folded, Trocchi got addicted to heroin and wrote a...