Steampunk/Alan Moore

[bob mccart]

The Watchmen is fucking fantastic, true graphic literature
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> On 10/28/06, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com > wrote:
> >
> > Yep, Alam Moore is well worth investigating, and his work has some
> > Pynchon
> > resonances. Here's a not-too-bad article on Moore from the UK's
> > Independent
> > newspaper a few weeks ago, based around Moore's new book 'Lost Girls', a
> > 'pornotopia' starring adult versions of Alice (in Wonderland), Wendy
> > Darling
> > (Peter Pan), adn Dorothy (not in Kansas any more):
> >
> > "Alan Moore: Three go mad in...
> >
> > What would happen if Alice, Wendy and Dorothy met as adults? Alan Moore,
> > Britain's greatest graphic novelist, reveals the story behind his most
> > controversial work yet. "
> >
> >
> > "Before Alan Moore, comics were hardly well-known for their writing or
> > their
> > writers. Few probably realised that such a profession existed. But for
> > much
> > longer than the usual 15 seconds in the late 1980s, Moore endured
> > hysterical
> > celebrity as the first great modern author of comics in the English
> > language, before the pressures drove him to withdraw from the spotlight
> > and
> > rarely be seen at public events again. A writer who shapes and remoulds
> > myths himself, his reclaimed privacy helped to build up a distinct
> > mythology
> > around him: that he is a recluse, perhaps a madman, avoiding his
> > readers,
> > shunning the media, never leaving his house,.."
> >
> >
> > "These three different ages and types of woman, each with her own
> > secrets
> > encoded in her fairytale youth, meet and share their erotic fantasies at
> > the
> > luxury Hotel Himmelgarten on the Austrian border in 1913. Setting it
> > amid
> > the imminent First World War allows Moore and Gebbie to comment on the
> > human
> > imagination in its sexual phase and the absolute lack of imagination
> > represented by war. Moore mentions one arresting contrast: "The last
> > chapter
> > shows a big dildo on a dressing table in an opening shot, and by the
> > end,
> > when we show the battlefields, there's a human penis outside the context
> > of
> > an attached body which mirrors it but in an appalling way. You start to
> > think, which of these is obscene?"
> >
> >
> > http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/features/article1770034.ece
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >Steampunk comes in two varieties, the rigorously speculative and the
> > more
> > >satirically fantastical.  My book is of the latter kind, while THE
> > >DIFFERENCE ENGINE is of the former.
> > >
> > >Also check out:
> > >
> > >Alan Moore's THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN (original comics,
> > not
> > >hash of a movie).
> > >Tim Powers's THE ANUBIS GATE.
> > >
> > >If you can get a hold of THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION, by Clute
> > and
> > >Nichols, the entry on steampunk therein is informative.
> > >
> >
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