Author: Marc SobelPublisher: Critical Cartoons
ISBN: 9781941250129
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Collection and analysis of Alan Moore's difficult to find short comics stories.
Illuminations
Author: Alan MoorePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635578817
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
From New York Times bestselling author Alan Moore-one of the most influential writers in the history of comics-"a wonderful collection, brilliant and often moving" (Neil Gaiman) which takes us to the fantastical underside of reality. In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a series of wildly different and equally unforgettable characters who discover--and in some cases even make and unmake--the various uncharted parts of existence. In "A Hypothetical Lizard," two concubines in a brothel of fantastical specialists fall in love with tragic ramifications. In "Not Even Legend," a paranormal study group is infiltrated by one of the otherworldly beings they seek to investigate. In "Illuminations," a nostalgic older man decides to visit a seaside resort from his youth and finds the past all too close at hand. And in the monumental novella "What We Can Know About Thunderman," which charts the surreal and Kafkaesque history of the comics industry's major players over the last seventy-five years, Moore reveals the dark, beating heart of the superhero business. From ghosts and otherworldly creatures to theoretical Boltzmann brains fashioning the universe at the big bang, Illuminations is exactly that--a series of bright, startling tales from a contemporary legend that reveal the full power of imagination and magic.
Cinema Purgatorio Collection
Author: Alan MoorePublisher: Avatar Press
ISBN: 9781592913343
Category : Graphic novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill invite you take a trip through the darkrecesses of cinema, in their first major project together since League ofExtraordinary Gentlemen. The power of movies, the people behind it, the damageit has done, and the story of one woman forced to bare her soul, is allunspooled one short film at a time. Every chapter is radically different yetall weaved into one tapestry of breathtaking complexity as only Alan Moore coulddo. This collection has all eighteen chapters for the completestory.
The complete WildC.A.T.s
Author: Alan MoorePublisher: Titan Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781845766177
Category : Science fiction comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
When Lord Emp, Spartan, Warblade, Maul, Zealot and Voodoo finally have the chance to return to Khera, home planet of the aliens which empowered them, their joy soon turns to despair when revelations about their war change everything they know.
Supreme
Author: Alan MoorePublisher:
ISBN: 9780971024960
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Illustrations by Joe Bennett, Rick Veitch & Chris Sprouse The conclusion of the acclaimed Alan Moore run on Supreme collected in trade paperback at last, this is follow up to The Story of the Year contains Moore's groundbreaking 'The Return' arc in its entirety. Flush with adventure, humour and comics nostalgia, Supreme is a brilliant showcase of Moore's superior talent and imagination.
Jerusalem
Author: Alan MoorePublisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631491350
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1954
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal Winner of the Audie Award The New York Times bestseller from the author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta finally appears in a one-volume paperback. Begging comparisons to Tolstoy and Joyce, this “magnificent, sprawling cosmic epic” (Guardian) by Alan Moore—the genre-defying, “groundbreaking, hairy genius of our generation” (NPR)—takes its place among the most notable works of contemporary English literature. In decaying Northampton, eternity loiters between housing projects. Among saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts, a timeline unravels: second-century fiends wait in urine-scented stairwells, delinquent specters undermine a century with tunnels, and in upstairs parlors, laborers with golden blood reduce fate to a snooker tournament. Through the labyrinthine streets and pages of Jerusalem tread ghosts singing hymns of wealth and poverty. They celebrate the English language, challenge mortality post-Einstein, and insist upon their slum as Blake’s eternal holy city in “Moore’s apotheosis, a fourth-dimensional symphony” (Entertainment Weekly). This “brilliant . . . monumentally ambitious” tale from the gutter is “a massive literary achievement for our time—and maybe for all times simultaneously” (Washington Post).
Absolute Top 10
Author: Alan MoorePublisher:
ISBN: 9781401238254
Category : Graphic novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The massive, multilayered city of Neopolis, built shortly after World War II, was designed as a home for the expanding population of science-heroes, heroines and villains that had ballooned into existence in the previous decade. Bringing these powered beings together solved some problems but created others, especially after the inevitable partnerships led to a surge in their numbers in the 1960s. By the 1980s, Neopolis had turned into a pressure cooker - under financed and overpopulated - that normal policing methods could never hope to contain. In 1985 the city accepted jurisdiction by a police force covering many alternate Earths, headquartered on the world known as Grand Central. Our own outpost of this network, Precinct Ten (known affectionately as Top 10), recruits its members from Neopolis and its environs, working much like Earth's other police precincts, with one major exception: Like the citizens of the city, the officers of Top 10 have the abilities needed to deal with Neopolis's exotic denizens. Rookie cop Robyn Slinger, alter ego "Toybox," hits the streets for the first time along with a colorful crew of fellow officers, each having the required training to deal with science-villains and super-crimes, as well as the common misdemeanors of city life. You'll never look at powers, or police work, the same way again!
The Love and Rockets Companion
Author: Marc SobelPublisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1606995790
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The Love and Rockets Companion: 30 Years (and Counting) contains three incredibly in-depth and candid interviews with creators Gilbert, Jaime and Mario Hernandez: one conducted by writer Neil Gaiman (Coraline); one conducted some six years into the comic’s run by longtime L&R publisher Gary Groth; and one conducted by the book’s author, spanning Gilbert’s, Jaime’s and Mario’s careers, and looking to the future of the ongoing series, with a follow-up conversation with Groth. This book has foldout family trees for both Gilbert’s Palomar and Jaime’s Locas storylines; unpublished art; a character glossary (which is handy, considering that Gilbert alone has created 50+ characters!); highlights from the original series’ anarchic letters columns; timelines; and the most wide-ranging Hernandez Brothers bibliography ever compiled, including album and DVD covers, posters and more.
Supreme
Author: Alan MoorePublisher:
ISBN: 9780971024953
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The acclaimed Alan Moore run of Supreme collected in paperback at last! This is the first of two volumes, and contains Moore's groundbreaking 'The Story of the Year' arc in its entirety. Featuring a never-before-published Alex Ross cover to create the supreme graphic novel of the season, this is a brilliant showcase of one of the universally acknowledged best writers in comics. Illustrated in full-colour throughout.
Watchmen (2019 Edition)
Author: Alan MoorePublisher: DC Comics
ISBN: 1779501838
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Soon to be an HBO original series, Watchmen, the groundbreaking series from award-winning author Alan Moore, presents a world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed history--the U.S. won the Vietnam War, Nixon is still president, and the Cold War is in full effect. Considered the greatest graphic novel in the history of the medium, the Hugo Award-winning story chronicles the fall from grace of a group of superheroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the superhero is dissected as an unknown assassin stalks the erstwhile heroes. This edition of Watchmen, the groundbreaking series from Alan Moore, the award-winning writer of V For Vendetta and Batman: The Killing Joke, and features art from industry legend Dave Gibbons, with high-quality, recolored pages found in Watchmen: Abslolute Edtion.
