Alan Moore, Out from the Underground: Cartooning, Performance, and Dissent

by Maggie Gray

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319665073
• ISBN13: 9783319665078
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"