Watchmen

by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons

Paperback

About the author

Alan 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.

Reviews

[subversivagrey]

tão impactante quanto eu lembrava, e muito atual. uma hq daquelas que merece ser lida e relida de tempos em tempos.

[Dean Gervasoni]

Somehow SO much of this failed to register properly when I first read it back in high school, but I'm really glad I picked it up again now and was able to properly enjoy the full story.

While obviously not the main point or feature of the comic, something I really love about it is all the in-universe book excerpts, news articles, case files etc in between each chapter/issue - they're excellent elements of world building, and honestly if some of those books were available as their own whole things, I'd gladly read those too!