Alan Moore's Cinema Purgatorio

by Alan Moore

Ha cambiato il modo di raccontare i super eroi con Miracleman e Watchmen, ha rivoluzionato il rapporto fra fumetto popolare e d'autore in patria e negli Stati Uniti, ha creato nuove ispirazioni per gli eroi della letteratura con The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, ha riscritto l'epica del mondo di H.P. Lovecraft con Neonomicon e Providence… e ora Alan Moore ci prova ancora con Cinema Purgatorio, il volume che raccoglie le storie uscite sull'omonima serie, disegnate da Kevin O'Neill! Un'allucinata metafora della decadenza dell'industria dell'intrattenimento dalla coppia che ha creato la Lega degli Straordinari Gentlemen!

163 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 11, 2020

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.