Eddie Campbell hat sich eine internationale Anhängerschaft für seine bahnbrechende Arbeit im Bereich der grafischen Romane über eine Karriere von mehr als 25 Jahren erworben. Er erforscht durchgängig komplexe Themen und setzt einen unverwechselbaren Stil ein, der sich mit der psychologischen Tiefe seiner Charaktere befasst. Seine Erzählungen greifen oft auf Mythologie und Geschichte zurück und gestalten zeitlose Geschichten und Figuren für ein zeitgenössisches Publikum neu. Campbells innovativer Ansatz des visuellen Erzählens und die tiefgreifende künstlerische Qualität seiner grafischen Romane werden hoch geschätzt.
The From Hell Companion is a fascinating read of almost 100,000 words and the same page size as From Hell itself, with illustrative material on every spread. The main thread in it is a selection of the best of Alan Moore's actual script sequences but this is supported with a generous selection of Moore's thumbnail sketches from his private notebooks for individual pages. Includes commentary from Eddie Campbell and two 16 page colour sections featuring brand new artwork. All arranged in narrative order, the reader will feel they have read From Hell from a fresh perspective.
Die Gesamtausgabe des "Jack The Ripper"-Comics "From Hell" bietet eine unhandliche, aber günstigere Alternative zur dreibändigen Ausgabe, die dem Comic entnommene Titelmotive zeigt. Der Inhalt bleibt identisch, jedoch gibt es wesentliche Unterschiede zwischen Film und Comic. Inspektor Abberline im Comic hat keine Opiumvisionen; stattdessen hat der Hellseher Robert Lees diese, auch ohne Drogen. Während der Film die spannende Suche nach dem unbekannten Jack The Ripper in den Vordergrund stellt, offenbart der Comic bereits im ersten Drittel, wer der Frauenmörder ist. Diese Offenbarung ermöglicht es dem Comic, sich intensiver mit der Psyche, den Ideen und Visionen des Rippers zu beschäftigen, während der Film Abberline in den Mittelpunkt rückt, was auch auf Johnny Depps Darstellung zurückzuführen ist. Dadurch wirkt der Comic tiefgründiger, wenn auch weniger spannend. Zudem sind die umfangreichen Anmerkungen von Alan Moore im Anhang von Bedeutung, die die zehnjährige Recherchearbeit widerspiegeln. Diese Anmerkungen verleihen dem Comic mehr historischen Kontext und Authentizität im Vergleich zum Film.
For the first time ever, the pioneering autobiographical comics of master cartoonist Eddie Campbell (From Hell) are collected in a single volume! Brilliantly observed and profoundly expressed, the ALEC stories present a version of Campbell's own life, filtered through the alter ego of "Alec MacGarry." Over many years, we witness Alec's (and Eddie's) progression "from beer to wine" - wild nights at the pub, existential despair, the hunt for love, the quest for art, becoming a "responsible breadwinner," feeling lost at his own movie premiere, and much more! Eddie's outlandish fantasies and metafictional tricks convert life into art, while staying fully grounded in his own absurdity. This Life-Size Omnibus edition of ALEC includes all the stories from The King Canute Crowd, Three-Piece Suit, How to be an Artist, and After the Snooter, as well as the very early, out-of-print ALEC stories and a staggering amount of bonus material.
Freshly separated Rob Hoffman is trying to reassemble his life. Only 25, he's
going through a divorce, his finances are in ruins, and he's forced to move
back in with mom. The internet is about to erase his number-one source of
income: men's mags. But the internet also offers a new angle on dating, and so
begins Rob's adventures as a singleton.
Meet Dotty. In life she was a call girl. In death she’s been damned to work in Hell’s Inhuman Resources department, New Male Arrivals Division, assigning wayward souls their crummy afterlives. As the goggle-eyed philosophical Frenchman once wrote, “Hell is other people.” Meet Dotty. In life she was a call girl. In death she’s been damned to work in Hell’s New Male Arrivals Division assigning wayward souls their crummy afterlives. For eternity. All the same, Dotty spends more time away from her desk on odd jobs and adventures, be they fetching Cerberus from Hell’s dog pound to licking psychotropic toads’ heads and tripping ballz. Forever is a long time, so might as well make the best of a hellish situation. From the pages of Heavy Metal and Soft Wood, as well as six never-before-seen stories, Dotty’s Inferno is a roasty romp by MAD and Minimum Wage creator Bob Fingerman. This expanded edition includes an exclusive new story! Also included, a bonus gallery featuring “pin-ups” by John Cebollero, Howard Chaykin, Dave Johnson, Mike Mignola, Dan Panosian and Bill Sienkiewicz!
In a modest Manhattan walk-up, a group of survivors are on their last legs. As the end seems nigh, a teenage girl is spotted on the avenue, not only alive but repelling the undead like Moses parting the Red Sea. When she comes to their aid questions of who, what and why she’s immune to attack arise. Almost like a play, this single location-centric story features a strong cast of archetypal, yet fully fleshed-out, distinct, characters. The artist; the young widow; the elderly couple; the bros living a new normal, for one of whom it’s also finally living his truth; the country boy who’s turned his back on his faith only to have it return in earnest. And the mysterious stranger that arrives as their savior, only to confound them, even as she complies with their ever-increasing impositions. PARIAH sets the classic zombie tropes on their ear as the element of immunity to attack is introduced into the mix. Very contemporary, but also taking cues from the classic New York cinema of Martin Scorcese, Neil Simon, Woody Allen and other gritty cinema and literature, PARIAH thrusts the reader into a truly dire survivors’ tale, capturing the desperation and resolve of its disparate cast.
In Bacchus, the visionary behind From Hell (with Alan Moore) and ALEC: The Years Have Pants presents his version of "an American-style comic book," filtered through his own brilliant, whimsical, and wide-ranging sensibility. With a fine blend of action, comedy, suspense, and an ear for a great story, Bacchus brings the gods and myths of ancient Greece to modern life, as if they had never left. Nearly 600-pages, this deluxe volume collects the first half of the Bacchus saga (including "Immortality Isn't Forever," "The Gods of Business," "Doing the Islands with Bacchus," "The Eyeball Kid: One Man Show," and "Earth, Water, Air & Fire") with new notes and commentary by the author.
Londýn, podzim 1888. Místo pěti brutálních vražd prostitutek, jejichž pachatelem je mytická bytost Jack Rozparovač. Scéna začíná s krásnou, mírně přiopilou prostitutkou, která se snaží ignorovat stín muže s cylindrem, jenž ji sleduje. Jak zrychluje krok, následuje ji, až se dostane do postranní uličky, kde dojde k tragédii. Moore v románu nezakrývá, že smrt těchto žen byla hrozná a nezasloužená, a odmítá pohodlné hororové klišé, místo toho odhaluje nepřikrášlenou pravdu.
Důležitější než identita vraha je to, jak a proč se to všechno stalo. Čtenář se tak jako detektiv Dirk Gently v knihách Douglase Adamse zabývá celým světem, v němž ke zločinu došlo. Viktoriánská Anglie, s jejími klady i zápory, technickým pokrokem a bídou, je zde vykreslena s důrazem na sociální kontext.
Román lze číst jako netradiční detektivku, beletrizovanou literaturu faktu či sociologickou studii viktoriánské společnosti. Nabízí pohled na výjimečně vzdělaného sériového vraha a není to četba pro každého. Vstupte pouze na vlastní nebezpečí, pokud se odvážíte nahlédnout na viktoriánskou Anglii očima Jacka Rozparovače. Alan Moore, mistr komiksového žánru, zde rozebírá nejzáhadnější série vražd v historii. Hrdinou příběhu je lékař William Withey Gull, který tráví svůj čas s Listonovým nožem v ruce. Co by člověk neudělal pro vlast…
