Electric Soup

For the Hoodoo Gurus album, seeElectric Soup (album).

Electric Soupis the title of aScottishundergroundcomic bookseries which was first published in 1989, and ran until 1992.

Electric Soup
Format	Limited series
Genre	see below
Publication date	1989 – 1992
No.of issues	1

The title was ananthologytitle with its most notable strip beingThe Greens,(a parody ofThe Broonsstrip published byD.C Thomson) which was written and drawn byFrank Quitely.Other stories were written and drawn by Shug, Dave Alexander, (whose creations The MacBam brothers proved a popular feature) Tommy Somme,Gerbil and others.

Electric Soup was independently published and distributed round theGlasgowarea to start with, but it received distribution though comic books shops before being snapped up byJohn Brown PublishingforUKdistribution.

The humour was veryGlaswegianin its strips,very akin to howVizis full ofgeordiehumour in many of its comic strips. The title was moderately successful but it was eventually cancelled after 17 issues. The MacBams storyline was continued in their own title, which lasted for one issue. A one-off Electric Soup 10th anniversary 18th edition was published in 1999, reuniting all of the original contributors. The lastGreensstrip from this one-off special was later reprinted in colour inNorthern Lightz,anotherScottishundergroundcomic book,which carried further adventures of Alexanders MacBams and Shug's Wildebeest characters. Shug now known as Shug 90 now has his "Electric soup" characters "Rex and Tom/Polis Story and The Wildebeests" published in small press publication Khaki Shortsby Rob Miller.