David Britton and Kris Guidio

1997

304mm x 214mm

298mm x 212mm

Hard/soft covers

First publication

256pp

ISBN 0 86130 099 8

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The original Meng & Ecker comics

The Meng & Ecker novel—Motherfuckers: The Auschwitz of Oz

Contents: Wang-Dang-Doodle / On The Meat Rack / The Leech Farm / The Adventures of Lord Horror Across The Media Landscape (article by Brian Stableford) / Rip-Rap-Meat Rack / Pope On The Ropes / All I Want For Christmas (fiction by Carolyn Horn) / Meng & Ecker In Blackpool / Rip E't Up / Hillsborough Hijinx / Reverbstorm (article by Paul Temple) / Back On The Meat Rack / Oke-She-Moke-She Pop! / Evil Science In Paradise / The Strange And Serious Case Of The Aids Cakes / The Madness Of The Meng / Raw Power / Happy Home For The Unborn / The 'GQ' Article (article by John Williams) / The Pigskin Bus / Andertonbirds Are Go! / Lord Horror's Revenge / Melancholia And Languor In The House Of Sombre Introspection

"At last, a giant oversized collection of the best material from the world's most invective, deliberately offensive comic book, Meng & Ecker. In case you're not familiar with this series...these comics are based on the universe originally created by David Britton in his confrontational novel, Lord Horror...in which the British Lord Horror (based extremely loosely on the real-life Lord Haw Haw) and his henchmen, Meng and Ecker, search the world for Hitler, who survived World War II. In the comic series based on them, Meng and Ecker take on a life of their own. In each issue, Britton writes, Kris Guidio painstakingly draws, and Michael Butterworth edits a series of misanthropic, amoral, vulgar, nihilistic adventures where more sacred cows are slaughtered than at McDonalds’s processing plants in India.

"No other comic is so good at being so bad. As one of the characters comments about Meng and Ecker: "Even 'bad taste' wouldn't stay in the same room as these fuckers." In someone else's hands, M&E could turn into a pitiful, tail-spinning exercise in hateful masturbation. But the writing is so excellent, the artwork so untouchable, the production values so high, and the dark humour so perfectly pitched that it becomes a crowning achievement of transgressive art."

RUSS KICK, Psychotropedia

"Moralists, grannies and 'right-thinking' people everywhere will see this as yet another example of the decline of civilisation as we know it. But that's what they said about Hogarth and Gillray."

"To be Céline one needs genius. To write (the Hitler novel) The Portage To San Cristobal Of AH one needs talent. To pour out lavatory infantile filth (as does the author of Meng & Ecker) one needs neither."

"Obscene and deeply irreverent, the funniest thing I've read in ages... everyone gets the razor in terrific wit and style."

"The best, most outrageous, offensive comic we get sent from anywhere in the world. Steps on every sacred cows' toe they can find. All drawn with a detail that would fit well with Aubrey Beardsley. Awesome and nasty."

"David Britton's shamanic stunt in 'creating' most of these characters is not that of a disinterested academic, nor even a 'poet-maudite'. This is the blazing insane rage of an obic sorcerer or tribal witch-doctor rallying racial spirits or cultural archetypes. There is no 'possibly' about it... this is THE BEST comic book in the world."

"There is no easy or, indeed, adequate way to describe Meng & Ecker—each issue is an experience. It is the only comic that I can legitimately say I look forward to reading. First you must forget everything you have ever known, or thought you knew, about comic books. You must approach these pages with eyes and mind open, and with a certain amount of nerve... or, better yet, humour. Their comic adventures are neither particularly comic nor adventuresome, but a kind of mad nihilistic romp through the hell that is earth—a vital continuum of murder, mayhem and misogyny... no one is exempt."

"Meng & Ecker has much to say about urban society and culture, and says it with an energy and urgency that, however much the visuals may repel, cannot be ignored."