Space Moose is a Canadian underground comic strip that appeared in the University of Alberta's student newspaper, The Gateway, between October 3, 1989, and 1999.[1] Almost all of the strips were penned by Adam Thrasher, a student at the university.[2] For career-related reasons, many archives refer to the author by his post-production pen name "Mustafa Al-Habib".[3]Macleans Canada said that Space Moose "was deliberately provocative".[4] Ellen Schoek, the author of I Was There: A Century of Alumni Stories about the University of Alberta, 1906–2006, said that Space Moose "left no subject unscathed, from fraternities to Christianity and obesity, from sexual proclivities to racism".[2] In addition to The Gateway, the newspapers of the University of Manitoba (The Manitoban) and Langara College (The Gleaner) also carried Space Moose.[5]
The strip follows the adventures of Space Moose, an anthropomorphic, nihilistic moose with asymmetrical eyes and a Star Trek uniform, as he violates every behavioral norm and societal taboo he can find. His roommates Marlo Smefner, Billy the Bionic Badger, and Bald Dwarf are often the accomplices or victims of his actions. Macleans Canada said that Space Moose was "probably the most famous comic strip character in Canadian university history".[4]
A book collection, Triumph of the Whim, was published in late 1997. It consists of 94 pages of selected existing Space Moose cartoons and 6 pages of previously unpublished Space Moose strips.[6] Most strips were available on the Space Moose web site.
^"Space Moose's Home Page." (Archive) Space Moose. January 22, 2002. Retrieved on February 5, 2011.
^ abSchoek, Ellen. I Was There: A Century of Alumni Stories about the University of Alberta, 1906-2006. University of Alberta, 2006. 635. Retrieved from Google Books on February 4, 2011. ISBN 0-88864-464-7, ISBN 978-0-88864-464-0. see segment: "Fall 1997-Fall 1998: Space Moose"
^Space Moose (discussion archived at the Internet Archive.)
^ ab"Vote for me." Macleans Canada. February 6, 2008. Retrieved on February 4, 2011. "The comic strip, created by medical sciences student Adam Thrasher, now a professor at the University of Houston, was deliberately provocative."
^Mandel, Charles. "Space Moose alive and well on the WWW." (Archive) Vue Weekly. September 10–16, 1998. Retrieved on January 30, 2012.
^"Space Moose Shoppe". (Archive Space Moose. October 18, 2000. Retrieved on February 5, 2011.
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