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Alan Moore : storyteller
Creator
Title
Alan Moore : storyteller / Gary Spencer Millidge.
ISBN
9780789322296
0789322293
9780789327116
0789327112
Published
New York, N.Y. : Universe, 2011.
Physical Description
320 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm + 1 audio CD (4 3/4 in.)
Local Notes
BEIN 2021 1247: Numerline indicates 1st printing: 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 / 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Dust jacket. From the Library of Samuel R. Delany.
Notes
The accompanying audio CD features excerpts from some of Moore's multimedia performances and songs.
Summary
Profiles the life and career of Alan Moore, the author of such graphic works as "V for Vendetta," "Watchmen," and "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," from his early comic strips through his later works as the contributor of the texts only.
Format
Audio / Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 25, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foreword / Michael Moorcock
Introduction
Chapter one. Early years: Embryonic genius
Boy from the boroughs
Four color Marvels
From Spring Lane to Billing Road
Arts and crafts
Tuning in and dropping out
Anonymity
Sounds of the undergrounds
Roscoe Moscow
The stars of my degradation
Maxwell the Magic Cat
Chapter two. British marvels, UK futures
Salad days
Shocking times and twisted futures
Time Lords, dark lords, daredevils, and Ravens
Captain Britain
The rise and fall of warrior
Marvelman
Marvels and miracles
V for Vendetta
The Bojeffries Saga
Skizz
D.R. & Quinch
The Ballad of Halo Jones
The writing on the wall
Chapter three. American Gothic: In the big time
The summoning
Saga of the Swamp Thing
Across the universe
Watchmen
Batman: The killing joke
Tapestries, monsters, recalcitrant refuse, and re-releases
After the masquerade
Chapter four. Blues and taboos: Love, death, and sex
Independent days
Shadowplay: The secret team
A small killing
Mirror of love
Big numbers
From hell
Lost girls
Chapter five. Return to glory: Extraordinary stories
Spawning ground
1963
Spawn
WildC. A.T.s
Supreme
Hearts and violets
Easy as ABC
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Tom Strong
Top 10
Tomorrow stories
Promethea
Chapter six. Psychogeographic eye: Magic, music, and performance
Scry and retiring
Alan Moore's songbook
Art is magic. Magic is art.
The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels
The Birth Caul: A shamanism of childhood brought to light
The Highbury working: A beat séance
Snakes & ladders
Angel Passage
Unearthing
Voice of the fire
Jerusalem
Hypothetical texts
Chapter seven. Nothing ever ends: Alan Moore knows the score
The cult of celebrity
Alan Moore goes to Hollywood
The creative process
Logic and legacy.
On accompanying CD: Gate of tears (excerpt) (Alan Moore & Tim Perkins)
March of the sinister ducks (The Sinister Ducks)
The birth caul (excerpt) (Alan Moore, David J., Tim Perkins)
Another suburban romance (The Emperors of Ice Cream)
Me and Dorothy Parker (The Emperors of Ice Cream & The Lyons Maids)
The demon regent Asmodeus (Alan Moore, David J., Tim Perkins)
Laos (Alan Moore, Gary Lloyd)
Madame October (Tom Hall & Alan Moore)
No. 1 with a bullet (Alan Moore & Tim Perkins)
Fires I'd wish I'd seen (The Emperors of Ice Cream)
Mr. A (The Emperors of Ice Cream)
Trampling Tokyo (Alan Moore & the Jazz Butcher)
Litvinoff's book (Alan Moore, David J., Tim Perkins)
The murders on the Rue Morgue (The Satanic Nurses)
Leopardman at C & A (Alan Moore & Tim Perkins)
Experience (excerpt) (Alan Moore & Tim Perkins)
You are my asylum (Alan Moore, Downtown Joe Brown & The Retro Spankees)
Closing (Alan Moore, Gary Lloyd)
Town of lights (Alan Moore, David J., Tim Perkins).
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Biography.
Sound recordings.
Biographies.
Sound recordings.
Biographies.
Also listed under
Samuel R. Delany Library (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library). Reading library.
United States New York (State) New York.
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