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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.

Moore, Alan, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- De Ray, Jill, --- Ray, Jill de, --- Moore, Al, --- Vile, Curt, --- Original Writer, --- Communication. --- Ethnology-Europe. --- Motion pictures. --- Arts. --- Film genres. --- Media Studies. --- British Culture. --- Audio-Visual Culture. --- Genre. --- Genre films --- Genres, Film --- Motion picture genres --- Motion pictures --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Occidental --- Arts, Western --- Fine arts --- Humanities --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Plots, themes, etc. --- History and criticism --- Ethnology—Europe. --- Arts, Primitive

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These essays identify the Gothic tradition as the cultural context for understanding texts dealing explicitly with terror and horror and works expressing Moore's interest in magic and psychogeography. Core elements from Gothic aesthetics are evident in the structure and atmosphere of many of Moore's works. The socio-political dimensions of Moore's work are brought into focus through an appreciation of the Gothic's capacity to encompass both the sublime and the ridiculous.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- Gothic horror tales (Literary genre) --- Gothic novels (Literary genre) --- Gothic romances (Literary genre) --- Gothic tales (Literary genre) --- Romances, Gothic (Literary genre) --- Detective and mystery stories --- Horror tales --- Suspense fiction --- Moore, Alan, --- De Ray, Jill, --- Ray, Jill de, --- Moore, Al, --- Vile, Curt, --- Original Writer, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Graphic novels. --- Comic book novels --- Fiction graphic novels --- Fictive graphic novels --- Graphic albums --- Graphic fiction --- Graphic nonfiction --- Graphic novellas --- Nonfiction graphic novels --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Fiction --- Popular literature --- Literature. --- Literary Studies / From C 1900 --- -LITERARY CRITICISM / Comics & Graphic Novels. --- Literary studies --- c 1900 to c 2000. --- fiction, novelists & prose writers. --- thema --- Moore, Alan --- A Disease of Language. --- A Small Killing. --- Alan Moore. --- Gothic liminality. --- Gothic politics. --- H.P. Lovecraft. --- Swamp Thing. --- The Bojeffries Saga. --- The Castle of Otranto. --- V for Vendetta. --- Voice of the Fire. --- Watchmen. --- bricolage. --- doubling strategies. --- ecological sensibility. --- environmental apocalypse. --- heterocosm. --- intertextual reader. --- occult cultures. --- surreal Englishness.