Alan Moore, Out from the Underground: Cartooning, Performance, and Dissent

ISBN-13: 9783319882604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 298 str.

Maggie Gray

Recenzje

"Central to Gray's study is how Moore approached his cartoons through the lens of comics as performance ... . The biggest strength of Gray's writing and research lies in her ability to not only analyze Moore's early cartooning work, but to first provide in-depth and insightful contextual sketches of the individuals, publications, and bands that affected Moore's work." (Jeremy M. Carnes, Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, Vol. 3 (1), 2019)

"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 looking in 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)

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. the Marks of the Arts Lab: Comics, Performance, and the Counterculture

Chapter 3. the Play of the Press: Cartooning, Materiality, and the Underground in Print

Chapter 4. the Sound of the Underground: Comics, Music and the Politics of Punk

Conclusion

O autorze

Maggie Gray is Lecturer in Critical and Historical Studies at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, London, UK.