Pat Mills

1 week ago | iconoblast.substack.com | Pat Mills

A fictional entity, with no basis in reality, it was created or adapted by the Catholic Church. It terrorises believers into obeying and funding the Catholic Church. Catholics are afraid of falling into the Devil’s clutches in Hell if they don’t go to Church on Sunday etc. So for them, the Devil is real. I say he’s a fictional entity with some authority, because as a kid I was quite indifferent to him, despite all the Hellfire nonsense from the pulpit.

1 week ago | iconoblast.substack.com | Pat Mills

Hardly had Requiem 11 been published, when catastrophe hit us. Nickel, our publishers, had mismanaged its affairs and couldn’t continue. Worse, it left me owed a significant amount of royalties, and Olivier even more. Tens of thousands of Euros. So we both had to find work elsewhere. It would be over ten years before Nickel sold Requiem to Glénat Éditions, Olivier was available again, and Glénat could publish Requiem 12: The Fall of Dracula.

2 weeks ago | iconoblast.substack.com | Pat Mills

My thanks to Anthoney Hart for finding a Youtube of my appearing – with Simon Bisley – on the BBC Omnibus programme ‘The Return of the Green Man’. Omnibus was a legendary BBC One arts documentary series. I wrote a sequence about the Green Man in Sláine: The Horned God, specially for Omnibus and you can see Simon painting it on the show. If you want to skip ahead to our section, it starts at 16:52.

3 weeks ago | iconoblast.substack.com | Pat Mills

Today, there seem to be more theocracies than ever. My family came from Ireland, which was a recognised cruel, evil and oppressive theocracy until fairly recent times. Among its numerous crimes were the treatment of young women in the Magdalen laundries and the restrictions on family planning. It even goes back to the time of the Great Hunger, where the ruling English Raj used and funded a Quisling Church, willing to carry out its commands.

3 weeks ago | iconoblast.substack.com | Pat Mills

In this volume, we see the aftermath of Hiroshima. The three American ‘tourists’ being pulled in rickshaws are authentic and the image is based on a photo reference. But any consideration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki makes us think about the origins of evil. Whether there is a place such as Resurrection, where the perpetrators will be punished, which is what so many of us would like to see happen.