Space Moose is a Canadian underground comic strip that appeared in the University of Alberta's student newspaper, The Gateway, between October 3, 1989, and 1999. Almost all of the strips were penned by Adam Thrasher, a student at the university. For career-related reasons, many archives refer to the author by his post-production pen name "Mustafa Al-Habib". Macleans Canada said that Space Moose "was deliberately provocative". Ellen Schoek, the author of I Was There: A Century of Alumni Stories about the University of Alberta, 1906-2006, said that Space Moose "left no subject unscathed, from fraternities to Christianity and obesity, from sexual proclivities to racism". In addition to The Gateway, the newspapers of the University of Manitoba (The Manitoban) and Langara College (The Gleaner)