Thank you for this. I know Gaiman's work well, but there is something
gripping about Moore that moves beyond traditional comix for me today. I did
find one article written by Josh Lukin in a 1998 issue of Anarchist Studies.
The subject was on 'V for Vendetta' and is quite good -- I can mail you a
copy if you would like :-)
I love Gaiman's 'Sandman' but I was really disappointed in his prose work
like 'Neverwhere.' His characters don't develop without drawings, which is
sad in one case, human in another.
For those wondering how this translates into poetics, I find there is an
interesting coloration between the grid narrative mixed with the image. (I
have written an epic poem on Superman which I will be happy to email to
anyone interested) I am also looking at early Chinese art which uses both
poem and painting to come to a full / broader interpretation -- going beyond
the verbal or auditory -- to gain illumination (sic)
If anyone would like to open a dialogue on this or image / photoshop graphic
poems I would find this exciting.
Best, Geoffrey
Geoffrey Gatza
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Geoffrey Gatza" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 8:33 AM
Subject: Alan Moore
> i know some of his work, geoffrey
>
> but as to criticism, well not much, although some of the recent books on
> modern comix probably has some. there may be some intros?
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> although nothing like the intros to the various Gaiman Sandman volumes.
>
> whom i like best still, but Moore, & also the guys who do Preacher, are
> also worth looking at (as they say).
>
> i suspect there are a nunmber of really fine comix writers out there &
just
> know i don't have enough time in this life to learn about them all...
>
> doug
>
> Douglas Barbour
> Department of English
> University of Alberta
> Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
> (h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
>
> he said the President said
> he would not kill anyone
> anymore and the way he would not kill
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> would be to let the killers kill
> and then he would not be a killer
>
> Eli Mandel (circa 1970)
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