Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics (comics Culture)
by Andrew Hoberek /
2014 / English / PDF
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Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’sWatchmen
Watchmen has been widely
hailed as a landmark in the development of the graphic novel. It
was not only aesthetically groundbreaking but also anticipated
future developments in politics, literature, and intellectual
property.
has been widely
hailed as a landmark in the development of the graphic novel. It
was not only aesthetically groundbreaking but also anticipated
future developments in politics, literature, and intellectual
property.
Demonstrating a keen eye for historical detail,
Demonstrating a keen eye for historical detail,Considering
Watchmen
Considering
Watchmen gives readers a new appreciation of just how radical
Moore and Gibbons’s blend of gritty realism and formal
experimentation was back in 1986. The book also considers
gives readers a new appreciation of just how radical
Moore and Gibbons’s blend of gritty realism and formal
experimentation was back in 1986. The book also considersWatchmen’s
Watchmen’s place in the history of the comics industry,
reading the graphic novel’s playful critique of superhero
marketing alongside Alan Moore’s public statements about the
rights to the franchise. Andrew Hoberek examines how Moore and
Gibbons engaged with the emerging discourses of neoconservatism
and neoliberal capitalism, ideologies that have only become more
prominent in subsequent years.
place in the history of the comics industry,
reading the graphic novel’s playful critique of superhero
marketing alongside Alan Moore’s public statements about the
rights to the franchise. Andrew Hoberek examines how Moore and
Gibbons engaged with the emerging discourses of neoconservatism
and neoliberal capitalism, ideologies that have only become more
prominent in subsequent years.W
Watchmen’s
atchmen’s influences on the superhero comic and
graphic novel are undeniable, but Hoberek reveals how it has also
had profound effects on literature as a whole. He suggests that
influences on the superhero comic and
graphic novel are undeniable, but Hoberek reveals how it has also
had profound effects on literature as a whole. He suggests thatWatchmen
Watchmen not only proved that superhero comics could rise
to the status of literature—it also helped to inspire a
generation of writers who are redefining the boundaries of the
literary, from Jonathan Lethem to Junot Díaz. Hoberek delivers
insight and analysis worthy of satisfying serious readers of the
genre while shedding new light on
not only proved that superhero comics could rise
to the status of literature—it also helped to inspire a
generation of writers who are redefining the boundaries of the
literary, from Jonathan Lethem to Junot Díaz. Hoberek delivers
insight and analysis worthy of satisfying serious readers of the
genre while shedding new light onWatchmen
Watchmen as both an
artistic accomplishment and a book of ideas.
as both an
artistic accomplishment and a book of ideas.
