![]() It also led to the lawsuit filed against Ellison and Groth by DC writer Michael Fleisher, who took exception to being called “bugfuck crazy” by Ellison. ![]() ![]() It was a meeting of iconoclasts, a thrilling display of discerning, dyspeptic honesty, and possibly their finest moment together. Groth’s extraordinary, industry-jarring interview with Ellison was published in 1979 in TCJ #53, the first issue of The Comics Journal that I ever purchased. So it’s understandable if readers may expect a less than reverential remembrance here. Now the time has come for one enemy-maker to publish the obituary of its enemy-making enemy. Not just winking frenemies, but mutually contemptuous, financial-life-threatening legal opponents. Ellison and the TCJ publisher were friends and then they were, almost inevitably, enemies. ![]() ![]() He also made loyal friends, fans and acolytes, but the only person who comes to mind who was capable of making enemies as blithely as Ellison did is Gary Groth. In the interest of full disclosure, a couple of personal notes, before the obituary: Features Speculative Fiction Author and Provocateur Harlan Ellison Dies ![]()
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