Editing Robert Smith (musician) (section)

===Other comic book and fan fiction references===
[[Garth Ennis]]'s ''Muzak Killer'' stories for ''[[2000 AD (comics)|2000 AD Comics]]'' from 1991 also contain visual references in the form of characters resembling Robert Smith,<ref>Shirley, Ian, ''Can Rock & Roll Save the World?: An Illustrated History of Music and Comics'', (2005), S.A.F. Publishing, p. 132; {{ISBN|0-946719-80-2}}.</ref><ref>Wolk, Douglas, [http://dreddreviews.blogspot.co.nz/2012_03_01_archive.html "Dredd Reckoning: Every Judge Dredd book, reviewed"], 25 March 2012; retrieved 19 October 2012.</ref> and again, Smith himself is a self-professed fan of ''2000 AD''. [[Revolutionary Comics]] produced a biographical comic book on the Cure in 1991 as Issue No. 30 of ''Rock n Roll Comics'' series, and the following year ''[[Personality Comics]]'' produced their own Cure biography in the form of ''Music Comics 4: The Cure''. Ian Shirley, author of ''Can Rock & Roll Save the World?: An Illustrated History of Music and Comics'', considers the fact "that the Cure have spawned two biographical comics ... just shows the impact that Robert Smith and his Goth chic had upon America in the 1990s".<ref>{{cite book |first=Ian |last=Shirley |title=Can Rock & Roll Save the World?: An Illustrated History of Music and Comics |date=2005 |publisher=S.A.F. Publishing |location=Dumfries, Scotland |page=74 |isbn=0-946719-80-2}}</ref> In the 1980s, the Japanese music magazine ''8-beat Gag'' published a series of caricatures of western artists by [[manga]] artist Atsuko Shima; Robert Smith had his own edition, and figured on the cover.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.post-punk.com/the-cures-robert-smith-david-sylvian-and-other-new-wave-icons-in-bizarre-japanese-manga/ |title=The Cure's Robert Smith, David Sylvian, and other New-Wave icons in bizarre Japanese Manga |date=January 29, 2018 |work=Post-Punk.com |access-date=2018-11-14 |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Gothic horror]] and [[fantasy (genre)|fantasy]] writer [[Poppy Z. Brite]], in his vampire novel ''[[Lost Souls (Poppy Z. Brite novel)|Lost Souls]]'' (1992), uses a poster of Robert Smith on a bedroom wall as a sexual prop during a [[homoerotic]] encounter between two of his characters, Laine and Nothing. Colin Raff of the ''[[New York Press]]'' described "Poppy Z. Brite's enthusiastic appraisal of Robert Smith's mouth in her (sic) depiction of a fictional blowjob" as "an example of the unfortunate habit of many fiction writers (especially since the 1980s) to invoke pop stars and their lyrics with un-ironic [''sic''] reverence, resulting in prose about as reflective as voyeuristic journalism, bad porn and bumperstickers".<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Colin |last=Raff |url=http://nypress.com/a-post-mortem-on-gothic-four-hundred-years-of-excess-horror-evil-and-ruin |title=A post-mortem on Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin |magazine=[[New York Press]] |date=October 3, 2000 |access-date=October 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130618120722/http://nypress.com/a-post-mortem-on-gothic-four-hundred-years-of-excess-horror-evil-and-ruin/ |archive-date=June 18, 2013}}</ref>