Aesop's Desecrated Morals Special Ashcan Preview Edition

A single-issue ashcan from 1993, this Rip Off Press special offers a raw, unpolished preview of Doug Wheeler and Bill Messner-Loebs' darkly satirical take on Aesop's fables. Wheeler's twisted scripts and Messner-Loebs' expressive, underground-comics style recast classic moral tales with a grim, adult sensibility. Though it stands alone as a brief artifact, it captures the duo's irreverent, countercultural energy that defined much of their work at the time.