Skizz

Skizz

Author: Alan Moore

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781401205799

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Zhcchz (a.k.a. "Skizz') is a Tau centian interpreter travelling home through the stars. Roxy is just another Birmingham schoolgirl heading home after another boring day. But when the two collide, both their lives will change forever!


Alan Moore

Alan Moore

Author: Jackson Ayres

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-03-25

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1350060488

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A complete guide to the comics work of the writer Alan Moore, this book helps readers explore one of the genre's most important, compelling and subversive writers. In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book covers: · Moore's comics career – from his early work in 2000AD to his breakthrough graphic novels and his later battles with the industry · Moore's major works – including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Saga of the Swamp Thing and Promethea · Key themes and contexts – from Moore's subversion of the superhero genre and metafictional techniques to his creative collaborations and battles with the industry for creator control · Critical approaches to Moore's work The book includes a bibliography of critical work on Moore and discussion questions for classroom use.


Alan Moore

Alan Moore

Author: Annalisa Di Liddo

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2010-01-06

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1604734760

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Eclectic British author Alan Moore (b. 1953) is one of the most acclaimed and controversial comics writers to emerge since the late 1970s. He has produced a large number of well-regarded comic books and graphic novels while also making occasional forays into music, poetry, performance, and prose. In Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel, Annalisa Di Liddo argues that Moore employs the comics form to dissect the literary canon, the tradition of comics, contemporary society, and our understanding of history. The book considers Moore's narrative strategies and pinpoints the main thematic threads in his works: the subversion of genre and pulp fiction, the interrogation of superhero tropes, the manipulation of space and time, the uses of magic and mythology, the instability of gender and ethnic identity, and the accumulation of imagery to create satire that comments on politics and art history. Examining Moore's use of comics to scrutinize contemporary culture, Di Liddo analyzes his best-known works—Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Promethea, and Lost Girls. The study also highlights Moore's lesser-known output, such as Halo Jones, Skizz, and Big Numbers, and his prose novel Voice of the Fire. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel reveals Moore to be one of the most significant and distinctly postmodern comics creators of the last quarter-century.


The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine

The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine

Author: Tim Lanzendörfer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-12-30

Total Pages: 615

ISBN-13: 1000513130

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Encompassing a broad definition of the topic, this Companion provides a survey of the literary magazine from its earliest days to the contemporary moment. It offers a comprehensive theorization of the literary magazine in the wake of developments in periodical studies in the last decade, bringing together a wide variety of approaches and concerns. With its distinctive chronological and geographical scope, this volume sheds new light on the possibilities and difficulties of the concept of the literary magazine, balancing a comprehensive overview of key themes and examples with greater attention to new approaches to magazine research. Divided into three main sections, this book offers: • Theory—it investigates definitions and limits of what a literary magazine is and what it does. • History and regionalism—a very broad historical and geographic sweep draws new connections and offers expanded definitions. • Case studies—these range from key modernist little magazines and the popular middlebrow to pulp fiction, comics, and digital ventures, widening the ambit of the literary magazine. The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine offers new and unforeseen cross-connections across the long history of literary periodicals, highlighting the ways in which it allows us to trace such ideas as the “literary” as well as notions of what magazines do in a culture.


Return to Animal Land

Return to Animal Land

Author: Pol McShane

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2007-07

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 0595458041

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It's only a few weeks into the summer vacation, but Johnny and Joey have already discovered a magic elevator, battled a three-headed dragon, a barracuda, and a terrifying monster named Ogre, and have met the nicest octopus around.But now, in this third installment of the Johnny and Joey adventures, the brothers find themselves on a very important mission: To save Animal Land from the clutches of Teron.And this time, the boys are not alone. Darus has come to bring them back with him. But which button is it? They can't remember.Small Land? Snow Land? Loud Land? Which button will help the heroes Return to Animal Land?"Pol McShane has a way of making the reader a part of the adventure, with his vivid detail, writing style, and his ability to tell a story." Rob Farr-Author


Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Author: D. Aviva Rothschild

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1995-04-15

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0313079919

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The first of its kind, this annotated guide describes and evaluates more than 400 works in English. Rothschild's lively annotations discuss important features of each work-including the quality of the graphics, characterizations, dialogue, and the appropriate audience-and introduces mainstream readers to the variety and quality of graphic novels, helps them distinguish between classics and hackwork, and alerts experienced readers to material they may not have discovered. Designed for individuals who need information about graphic novels and for those interested in acquiring them, this book will especially appeal to librarians, booksellers, bookstore owners, educators working with teen and reluctant readers, as well as to readers interested in this genre.


Blood

Blood

Author: Francine Pascal

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2002-07-04

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0743434137

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Gaia reconsiders the consequences of her fearlessness when a drug dealer she beat up takes revenge by killing her friend. She becomes inconsolable and reclusive, and her depression turns into a death wish. But Ed’s got a plan to get Gaia caring again. Will it work?


Fearless 3

Fearless 3

Author: Francine Pascal

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 1481402706

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The brilliant, beautiful, and dangerous Gaia must deal with secrets from her past being exposed, learn to be a hero again when a friend is in trouble, and decide how far she will go for revenge.