Tom Is Jerry, Pingo Magazine, and Moebius

[grubcubman]

Hi keedos,

During a recent trawl of eBay, I came across the listings of one seller advertising books like Moebius 0: The Horny Goof. My understanding was that the book was published once by Dark Horse in the 1990s, but this listing showed a different publisher: Tom Is Jerry or Pingo Magazine. So I sent a message to the seller and also did some digging, and it seems like Tom Is Jerry is a sort of micropress in the Netherlands (or Germany?) putting out archival-type stuff in English. I don't know whether it's licensed or bootleg material, but I do find it very intriguing! I think these books are mostly from them: picclick.com/seller/luan-pol. And the Wikipedia page for Blueberry also mentions Tom Is Jerry, though I haven't seen photos of the actual books.

Does anyone have any intel to share?

Jake

[ely]

I have nothing to add but this is interesting and most importantly Tom Is Jerry is a great name for a press hehe

[teemcgee]

Seems weird to me from a publishing economics perspective that a European micropress would have the rights to publish these - in your link there are also very mainstream works from major French publishers (Alix, etc) - as well as a real (Alph Art) and a bootleg Herge (Tintin vs Batman) which raises suspicions as I don't think Studio Herge would look kindly on any localised publisher issuing parodies. All in all, very puzzling.

[junkflower]

Interesting! I'd love to know what the deal is. I've seen that Alix before and wondered what the hell it was