Magic words : the extraordinary life of Alan Moore / Lance Parkin.

By:

Parkin, Lance [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Aurum Press Ltd, 2013.Description: 426 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:

9781781310779
1781310777

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

741.6 PAR

Contents:

Introduction -- Beardless youth -- Eight years later... -- Realistic weird warrior -- Script robot: Alan Moore -- Heads up America... here I come! -- This isn\'t funny. Ha ha ha ha ha! -- Watchmen II -- I, Mage -- Pictopia -- Whatever happened to the Man of Tomorrow?

Summary: For over three decades comics fans and creators have regarded Alan Moore as a titan of the form. With works such as V for Vendetta, Watchmen and From Hell, he has repeatedly staked out new territory, attracting literary plaudits and a mainstream audience far removed from his underground origins. His place in popular culture is now such that major Hollywood players vie to adapt his books for cinema. Yet Moore\'s journey from the hippie Arts Labs of the 1970s to the bestseller lists was far from preordained. A principled eccentric, who has lived his whole life in one English town, he has been embroiled in fierce feuds with some of the entertainment industry\'s biggest corporations. And just when he could have made millions ploughing a golden rut he turned instead to performance art, writing erotica, and the occult. Now, as Alan Moore hits sixty, it\'s time to go in search of this extraordinary gentleman, and follow the peculiar path taken by a writer quite unlike any other.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Clonmel Library Main Collection	741.6 PAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100532887

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"In Magic Words Lance Parkin has crafted a biography that is insightful, scrupulously fair-minded and often very funny, a considerable achievement given its unrelentingly grim, unreasonable and annoying subject. Belongs on the bookshelf of any halfway decent criminal profiler." ALAN MOORE

Yet Moore's journey from the hippie Arts Labs of the 1970s to the bestseller lists was far from preordained. A principled eccentric, who has lived his whole life in one English town, he has been embroiled in fierce feuds with some of the entertainment industry's biggest corporations. And just when he could have made millions ploughing a golden rut he turned instead to performance art, writing erotica, and the occult.

Now, as Alan Moore hits sixty, it's time to go in search of this extraordinary gentleman, and follow the peculiar path taken by a writer quite unlike any other.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-411) and index.

For over three decades comics fans and creators have regarded Alan Moore as a titan of the form. With works such as V for Vendetta, Watchmen and From Hell, he has repeatedly staked out new territory, attracting literary plaudits and a mainstream audience far removed from his underground origins. His place in popular culture is now such that major Hollywood players vie to adapt his books for cinema. Yet Moore\'s journey from the hippie Arts Labs of the 1970s to the bestseller lists was far from preordained. A principled eccentric, who has lived his whole life in one English town, he has been embroiled in fierce feuds with some of the entertainment industry\'s biggest corporations. And just when he could have made millions ploughing a golden rut he turned instead to performance art, writing erotica, and the occult. Now, as Alan Moore hits sixty, it\'s time to go in search of this extraordinary gentleman, and follow the peculiar path taken by a writer quite unlike any other.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

LANCE PARKIN is a highly respected author and well known in Doctor Who fan circles. He has written many notable books on the Doctor including the novella Snare, The Doctor Who Chronology , A History of the Universe , The Dying Days , The Infinity Doctor and The Gallifrey Chronicles . Lance also writes a regular column in the Doctor Who fanzine Enlightenment published by the Doctor Who Information Network.