Alan Moore, Out from the Underground Book Launch

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Time: 5.00pm - 6.00pm
Venue: Room 104 Senate House, University of London
Price: free

Alan Moore, Out from the Underground by Maggie Gray will be launched at the University of London.  Maggie Gray is a Lecturer in Critical and Historical Studies at Kingston School of Art, Kingston University. 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 Moore's approach to comics and their political potential. Drawing on the work of Bertolt Brecht, who similarly fused political dissent with experimental popular art, this book considers what looking strangely at Alan Moore as cartoonist tells us about comics, their visual and material form, and the performance and politics of their reading and making.

20% discount on printed book or E-book available at event.

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Contact: Emily Bowles
Email: E.Bowles@kingston.ac.uk