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From Hell: Vanuit de hel #3
Vanuit de hel - deel 3
Dit derde deel van From Hell is het adembenemende einde van de majestueuze reeks over Jack the Ripper,misschien wel de beruchtste moordenaar in de annalen van de misdaad. Moore en Campbell eindigen hiermee hun From Hell-project – een van de belangrijkste beeldromans van onze tijd, zoals terecht werd opgemerkt door verschillende critici. Het hallucinerende slot en de duizelingwekkende epiloog doorbreken de grenzen van tijd en ruimte, ratio en waanzin, perceptie en werkelijkheid op een manier die uniek is voor dit stripmeesterwerk. Uit deze tour de force blijkt de intentie van de makers: niets minder dan het vatten van de kern van de victoriaanse tijd, waaruit de waanzinnige, gruwelijke twintigste eeuw ontstaan is.
165 pages, Paperback
Published March 1, 2011
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Alan Moore
1,578 books21.6k followersAlan Moore is an English writer most famous for his influential work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novels Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. He has also written a novel, Voice of the Fire, and performs "workings" (one-off performance art/spoken word pieces) with The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some of which have been released on CD.
As a comics writer, Moore is notable for being one of the first writers to apply literary and formalist sensibilities to the mainstream of the medium. As well as including challenging subject matter and adult themes, he brings a wide range of influences to his work, from the literary–authors such as William S. Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Anton Wilson and Iain Sinclair; New Wave science fiction writers such as Michael Moorcock; horror writers such as Clive Barker; to the cinematic–filmmakers such as Nicolas Roeg. Influences within comics include Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Kirby and Bryan Talbot.
As a comics writer, Moore is notable for being one of the first writers to apply literary and formalist sensibilities to the mainstream of the medium. As well as including challenging subject matter and adult themes, he brings a wide range of influences to his work, from the literary–authors such as William S. Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Anton Wilson and Iain Sinclair; New Wave science fiction writers such as Michael Moorcock; horror writers such as Clive Barker; to the cinematic–filmmakers such as Nicolas Roeg. Influences within comics include Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, Jack Kirby and Bryan Talbot.
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April 19, 2013
In my quest to gain more traction with graphic novels, I ended up with From Hell.
A classic, I gather. And rightfully so. In that respect a tremendous amount of work went into this one.
This work provides yet another theory about who Jack the Ripper was, and why he committed those murders.
Yet another, I say... Well, libraries full of books have been written about it.
Yet, this one is not like the others. Not only on account of this being a graphic novel, and not a researched book, but also the way the story is told: partly researched, partly fictional.
It gives the reader multiple ways of reading it. You can read it as just a story -- whether or not it is fictional doesn't really matter; You can read it as a detective, snooping around in the story and the drawings for clues; Or you can read it together with the appendices and read it as a documentary.
It's multi-faceted and it really works on each level. I'm in awe for the amount of time and work this must have costed.
This third part brings Moore's interpretation to an end. I must admit he didn't manage to grab my attention all the way to the end. The esoteric part of Gull having an out-of-body-experience is a bit counter-intuitive to Moore's down to earth approach of the story.
Also, the psychology behind the characters actions don't always line up, I feel.
In short: it really is a tremendous effort, this trilogy. However, I think Moore wanted to write a historical account more than he wanted to make a graphic novel out of it. Sometimes those two just don't merge. I really enjoyed my time in hell, but I leave with the feeling it's not as accomplished as Moore's other works.
A classic, I gather. And rightfully so. In that respect a tremendous amount of work went into this one.
This work provides yet another theory about who Jack the Ripper was, and why he committed those murders.
Yet another, I say... Well, libraries full of books have been written about it.
Yet, this one is not like the others. Not only on account of this being a graphic novel, and not a researched book, but also the way the story is told: partly researched, partly fictional.
It gives the reader multiple ways of reading it. You can read it as just a story -- whether or not it is fictional doesn't really matter; You can read it as a detective, snooping around in the story and the drawings for clues; Or you can read it together with the appendices and read it as a documentary.
It's multi-faceted and it really works on each level. I'm in awe for the amount of time and work this must have costed.
This third part brings Moore's interpretation to an end. I must admit he didn't manage to grab my attention all the way to the end. The esoteric part of Gull having an out-of-body-experience is a bit counter-intuitive to Moore's down to earth approach of the story.
Also, the psychology behind the characters actions don't always line up, I feel.
In short: it really is a tremendous effort, this trilogy. However, I think Moore wanted to write a historical account more than he wanted to make a graphic novel out of it. Sometimes those two just don't merge. I really enjoyed my time in hell, but I leave with the feeling it's not as accomplished as Moore's other works.
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