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Issue 6.1 - Special Issue "Contemporary Speculative Fiction" Previous Issues

Speculative Resistance in Lost Girls

Mark P. Williams March 15, 2017 No Comments Alan Moore comic fantasy pornography

This article will suggest that Alan Moore’s perspective can usefully be considered as part of an underground aesthetic which declares the necessity of solidarity of experience with all other groups…

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Issue 2.3 Previous Issues

Identity and Consciousness in Dial H

Christina Scholz May 13, 2013 9 Comments Alan Moore Boy Chimney China Mieville comics D.C.Dial H Erich Origen Frank Miller Gan Golan graphic narrative Jacen Burrows Mateus Santolouco Neil Gaiman New 52 panel composition panel design Perdido Street Station Sandman serialised narrative superheroes The Adventures of Unemployed Man The Courtyard The Dark Knight Returns Watchmen

With DC’s “New 52” reboot of Dial H China Miéville has re-entered the genre of comics after a guest episode of Hellblazer and a much-discussed but ultimately…

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Issue 2.1 Previous Issues

Panel Transitions in Trauma Comics

Harriet Earle January 12, 2013 4 Comments 9/11 Alan Moore Art Spiegelman Batman closure comics comics scholarship Dark Knight Returns Dave Gibbon DC Comics Fantagraphics Books form formal analysis Frank Miller genre gutter Marjane Satrapi panel transitions Persepolis Scott McCloud Sin City superheroes The Real Thing The Spirit Unreal Watchmen Will Eisner

Comics are the new kids on the block in the world of literary academia. It is only in recent years that they have been accepted at a valid narrative form…

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Alternative Fictioneers

Mark P. Williams June 1, 2012 4 Comments AK Distribution Alan Moore alternative publishing avant-gardism CodeX Creation Press Decadent Surrealism drum n bass experimental British fiction globalisation Grant Morrison Headpress hip hop Mark Waugh New Wave pop culture Pulp Fiction punk science fiction small presses Spare Change Books Stewart Home surrealism

Outside of academic postmodernism, around the edges of genre fiction, and beyond the purview of the mainstream literary novel…

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