In 1970, William Burroughs and Malcolm Mc Neill began a small collaborative project on a comic entitled The Unspeakable Mr. Hart. At the time, Malcolm Mc Neill had recently graduated from Hornsey College of Art in London, and had barely heard of Burroughs, his work, or experimentations with radical writing forms and different media. Through mutual associate Graham Keen, the graphics editor for London's IT (International Times) and financial manager for Cyclops (another underground publication and England's first comics magazine for an adult readership), Burroughs selectged Mc Neill's artwork to accompany his contribution for Cyclops by looking through a selection of Mc Neill's previous work. Without ever actually meeting Burroughs in person, Mc Neill received eleven pages of typed text from the writer and was asked to turn them into a compic strip. In his unpublished autobiography Observed While Falling: Bill Burroughs, Ah Pook, and Me, he recalls that Burrough's prose was cryptic, challenging, and seemingly impossible to illustruate. Nonetheless, Mc Neill illustrated four installments of The Unspeakable Mr. Hart between July and October of 1970 before the publication was discontinued. The last installment ominously ends with the words "To Be Continued" in the bottom right-hand corner of the page. The Unspeakable Mr. Hart did not continue, but the collaboration did, as a project that has endured for forty years and continues to this day.