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The British Comic Book Invasion - Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Grant Morrison and the Evolution of the American Style (Paperback)
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The British Comic Book Invasion - Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Grant Morrison and the Evolution of the American Style (Paperback)
Series: Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
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How can comics storytelling stay exciting and innovative? How can
genres be kept alive? And what makes a successful comics creator?
These are the questions writers and artists working in the highly
competitive US comics mainstream have always had to ask. But they
were especially pressing in the 1980s. As comics readers grew
older, they started to call for more sophisticated stories. They
were also no longer just following the adventures of popular
characters-writers and artists with an immediately recognizable
style and personality were in high demand as well. DC Comics and
Marvel went looking for such mavericks, and they found them in the
United Kingdom: creators like Alan Moore (Watchmen, Saga of the
Swamp Thing), Grant Morrison (The Invisibles, Flex Mentallo, JLA),
and Garth Ennis (Preacher) migrated from the anarchical British
comics industry to the US mainstream and shook up the status quo.
This book explores the relationship between their works and the
mainstream comic book style that was dominant at the time-how the
British Invasion subverted the norm, but also the many ways in
which the movement came to rely on the genius of the American
system.
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