Satan’s Planet (A Day In Life On…)

(Home-Made Euthanasia)
©1994 Home-Made Euthanasia Studios

A Day In Life On Satan’s Planet (spelled “Satans” on the cover) is in many ways the archetypical underground comic. It’s the work of a single artist, Ken Maxwell, who created, scripted, drew, and published it. Each issue was produced by photocopying, folding, and stapling 8.5” x 11” pieces of paper together, with a different-color paper used for the cover. All in all, it’s small press at its smallest.

Satan’s Planet conforms to what Nina Paley (Nina’s All-Time Greatest Collectors’ Item Classic Comics) calls “the Underground Comix Code.” It’s drawn in a deliberately crude style, and the content seems to cherish grossness for the sake of grossness. Sex, violence, and particularly the unnatural workings of bodily functions are the order of the day. The author’s aim is to gross out the reader and is obviously having a good time with it. It is not however (as the author is keen to point out) in any way meant to “promote Satanism or bowing to any lesser god.”

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