Alan Moore, Out From The Underground: Cartooning, Performance, And Dissent (palgrave Studies In Comics And Graphic Novels)
by Maggie Gray /
2017 / English / PDF
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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.
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.
