The cover of Alan Moore's Maxwell the Magic Cat vol. 1 (Acme Press, 1986). Artwork by Alan Moore under the pseudonym "Jill de Ray".
Author(s)
Jill de Ray (Alan Moore)
Current status/schedule
Concluded weekly strip
Launch date
August 25, 1979
End date
October 9, 1986[a]
Publisher(s)
Northants Post Acme Press
Genre(s)
Humour, politics
Maxwell the Magic Cat was a British comic strip written and drawn by Alan Moore under the pseudonym "Jill de Ray". Moore produced the strip for the weekly Northants Post from 1979 to 1986.
Moore originally pitched the Post an adult-oriented strip called Nutter's Ruin, which they rejected, advising him instead to propose a children's strip. Although Maxwell is on the surface intended for children, Moore inserted metafictional and surrealist elements, adult references, and social/political commentary into the strip throughout its run. In fact, the Jill de Ray pseudonym is a pun on the Medieval child murderer Gilles de Rais,[2] something Moore found to be a "sardonic joke".[citation needed]
Moore has stated that he would have been happy to continue Maxwell's adventures almost indefinitely, but ended the strip after the host newspaper the Northants Post ran a negative editorial on the place of homosexuals in the community.[3] Meanwhile, Moore decided to focus more fully on writing comics rather than both writing and drawing them,[4] stating that "after I'd been doing [it] for a couple of years, I realised that I would never be able to draw well enough and/or quickly enough to actually make any kind of decent living as an artist".[5]: 15
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^Ó Méalóid, Pádraig. "Alan Moore: Scenes from the Life of the Master", The Alien Online (November 2003).
^"Alan Moore". Lambiek Comiclopedia. 16 July 2010. Archived from the original on 13 December 2013.
^Baker, Bill (28 December 2005). Alan Moore Spells It Out. Airwave Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9724805-7-4.
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