Last Gasp will release Slow Death Zero: The Comix Anthology of Ecological Horror, a trade paperback anthology of new material, this fall. 

The new collection is being released 50 years after the release of Slow Death #1 on the first Earth Day in 1970. The underground comic, launched in the early days of the environmental movement, focused on political themes throughout its existence, often addressed through horror or science fiction stories depicting the impacts of environmental degradation. 

Creators in the comics included Greg Irons, Robert Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, Richard Corben, Alan Moore & Bryan Talbot, Wally Wood, and numerous other luminaries of the medium. Ten issues were published in the 1970s, with a final issue, Slow Death #11, released in 1992.

Slow Death #1 was the first release of new company Last Gasp and its founder, Ron Turner, who still runs the company.  Since then, Last Gasp has published a wide range of underground comics, art books, and manga featuring some of the last half-century’s most talented creators.

The new anthology will feature a cover by William Stout and new work by fellow Slow Death alumni Tim Boxell, Bryan Talbot, Errol McCarthy, and Richard Corben, plus Rick Veitch, Bruce Jones, Peter Bagge, Drew Friedman, Mike Diana, Savage Pencil, John Lucas, Danny Hellman, Hilary Barta, Hunt Emerson, Kellie Strom, Max Clotfelter, Turtel Onli, Cameron Forsley, Carel Moisewitch, Megan Jeffrey, Skinner, Shane Oakley, and Toufic, 33 writers and artists in all. A number of the creators from the original series, Greg Irons, Dave Sheridan, Jaxon, and Spain, are deceased, although the anthology will include previously unseen work by Irons.

The 128-page trade paperback anthology, edited by Jon B. Cooke and Ronald E. Turner, will retail for $24.95.