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- Researches an academically disregarded body of work, both in terms of Moore's early work and the history of British comics
- Offers a distinctive approach to the study of Alan Moore's oeuvre
- Challenges dominant trends in comics studies by attending to the aesthetics of the visual, the politics of form, and the location of graphic style in specific social and historical contexts of production.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels (PSCGN)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book explores Alan Moore’s career as a cartoonist, as shaped by his transdisciplinary practice as a poet, illustrator, musician and playwright as well as his involvement in the Northampton Arts Lab and the hippie counterculture in which it took place. It traces Moore’s trajectory out from the underground comix scene of the 1970s and into a commercial music press rocked by the arrival of punk. In doing so it uncovers how performance has shaped Moore’s approach to comics and their political potential. Drawing on the work of Bertolt Brecht, who similarly fused political dissent with experimental popular art, this book considers what looking strangely at Alan Moore as cartoonist tells us about comics, their visual and material form, and the performance and politics of their reading and making.
Reviews
“Each chapter of this book considers Moore's creative output in a specific situation of production. … this book hopes to offer an alternative way of seeing Alan Moore's work that uncovers the specifics of his visual sensibility and thereby enhances understanding of his oeuvre. By lookingin this strange way at a creator emblematic of the literary turn in comics studies, it is also hoped it will contribute to pressing debates in the field … .” (Scriptable, rtreview.org, Issue 16, May, 2018)
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Critical Studies and Creative Industries, Kingston School of Art‚ Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom
Maggie Gray
About the author
Maggie Gray is Lecturer in Critical and Historical Studies at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, London, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Alan Moore, Out from the Underground
Book Subtitle: Cartooning, Performance, and Dissent
Authors: Maggie Gray
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66508-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66507-8Published: 16 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88260-4Published: 24 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66508-5Published: 01 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6370
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6389
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 298
Number of Illustrations: 35 illustrations in colour
Topics: Media Studies, British Culture, Audio-Visual Culture, Arts, Genre