Issue 63 | Graphic Fiction | April 2026

The Trouble With Being Porn: A Theoretical Fiction With Footnotes

Chuck Mobley

Editor’s Note

A collage of scholarly meditations on porn, on desire, on attachment, on the craft ebbing. Hoo boy. Chuck Mobley’s graphic fiction is akin to a fishing hook; it is your mind that’s meant to squirm on its question-mark tip. The neon-colors, sharp lines and crisp noir-ish imagery were an inspired choice on the artist’s part. Unashamed violety pinks. Hulkish greens. One cannot imagine this work in mouldy, sepia-toned, genteel shades. Or one could, but then you wouldn’t have gotten to experience it. To say less would be to leave you groping. To say more would be to tease without point. I will, therefore, leave you alone with the text. Enjoy!

—Anil Menon
The Bombay Literary Magazine

Acknowledgements

Cover Image

Illustrations: Tom Ǝ Tyranny, illustrator.

Author | Chuck Mobley

Author Photo

Chuck Mobley is very likely sitting in the parking lot of a chain store in Southern California editing his debut novel A Revolutionary Takes a Sabbatical.

Meanwhile, Tom Ǝ Tyranny continues, with silent complaint and no reason, to quietly generate surplus value from their Midwest hermitage. [Text source: Chuck Mobley]