




Terry Moore
Abstract StudiosTerry Moore is best known for his comic series, Strangers in Paradise, a comic that follows the lives of three miserable people in a pathetic love triangle. There's Francine, the clumsy straight girl who gets really chubby and seems kind of fucked in the head. Then there's her best friend Katchoo, who is a gay lady with a gay lady crush on her dumb straight friend. Finally there's David, a totally pathetic "poet" who is in love with the man-hating Katchoo despite being told to fuck off all the time. So these three masochistic friends all hang out and there's a big story involving the lesbian mafia and that's all I can remember. As a 13-year-old boy I accepted the world of Strangers in Paradise and saw it as an exciting peek into the world of adults. The drawing style was appealing because of how clean it was and the parts I found confusing interested me. By 14 I had met actual people with personalities, like the main characters, and realized that I hated them. Around 17 I started to see the comic as an unlikable knockoff of Jaime Hernandez's Maggie and Hopey stories. I haven't looked at it since. Before I became the hateful comics Grinch that I am today I must admit that I did spend at least a few hours copying the drawings of Terry Moore.
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