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• Author/Creator:Millidge, Gary Spencer, author.
  
• Title:Alan Moore : storyteller / Gary Spencer Millidge.
  
• ISBN:9780789322296
  0789322293
  9780789327116
  0789327112
  
• Published/Created:New York, N.Y. : Universe, 2011.
  
• Physical Description:320 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm + 1 audio CD (4 3/4 in.)
  

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  • Location:LSF- BEINECKE
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  • Call Number: 2021 1247
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

  • Location:Library Shelving Facility (LSF)
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  • Call Number: PN6737.M66 M56 2011 Oversize
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Local Notes:BEIN 2021 1247: Numerline indicates 1st printing: 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 / 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Dust jacket. From the Library of Samuel R. Delany.
  
• Notes:The accompanying audio CD features excerpts from some of Moore's multimedia performances and songs.
  
• Summary:Profiles the life and career of Alan Moore, the author of such graphic works as "V for Vendetta," "Watchmen," and "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," from his early comic strips through his later works as the contributor of the texts only.
  
• Format:Book
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
  
• Contents:Foreword / Michael Moorcock -- Introduction -- Chapter one. Early years: Embryonic genius --Boy from the boroughs -- Four color Marvels -- From Spring Lane to Billing Road -- Arts and crafts -- Tuning in and dropping out -- Anonymity -- Sounds of the undergrounds -- Roscoe Moscow -- The stars of my degradation -- Maxwell the Magic Cat -- Chapter two. British marvels, UK futures -- Salad days -- Shocking times and twisted futures -- Time Lords, dark lords, daredevils, and Ravens -- Captain Britain -- The rise and fall of warrior -- Marvelman -- Marvels and miracles -- V for Vendetta -- The Bojeffries Saga -- Skizz -- D.R. & Quinch -- The Ballad of Halo Jones -- The writing on the wall -- Chapter three. American Gothic: In the big time -- The summoning -- Saga of the Swamp Thing -- Across the universe -- Watchmen -- Batman: The killing joke -- Tapestries, monsters, recalcitrant refuse, and re-releases -- After the masquerade -- Chapter four. Blues and taboos: Love, death, and sex -- Independent days -- Shadowplay: The secret team -- A small killing -- Mirror of love -- Big numbers -- From hell -- Lost girls -- Chapter five. Return to glory: Extraordinary stories -- Spawning ground -- 1963 -- Spawn -- WildC. A.T.s -- Supreme -- Hearts and violets -- Easy as ABC -- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen -- Tom Strong -- Top 10 -- Tomorrow stories -- Promethea -- Chapter six. Psychogeographic eye: Magic, music, and performance -- Scry and retiring -- Alan Moore's songbook -- Art is magic. Magic is art. -- The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels -- The Birth Caul: A shamanism of childhood brought to light -- The Highbury working: A beat séance -- Snakes & ladders -- Angel Passage -- Unearthing -- Voice of the fire -- Jerusalem -- Hypothetical texts -- Chapter seven. Nothing ever ends: Alan Moore knows the score -- The cult of celebrity -- Alan Moore goes to Hollywood -- The creative process -- Logic and legacy.
  On accompanying CD: Gate of tears (excerpt) (Alan Moore & Tim Perkins) -- March of the sinister ducks (The Sinister Ducks) -- The birth caul (excerpt) (Alan Moore, David J., Tim Perkins) -- Another suburban romance (The Emperors of Ice Cream) -- Me and Dorothy Parker (The Emperors of Ice Cream & The Lyons Maids) -- The demon regent Asmodeus (Alan Moore, David J., Tim Perkins) -- Laos (Alan Moore, Gary Lloyd) -- Madame October (Tom Hall & Alan Moore) -- No. 1 with a bullet (Alan Moore & Tim Perkins) -- Fires I'd wish I'd seen (The Emperors of Ice Cream) -- Mr. A (The Emperors of Ice Cream) -- Trampling Tokyo (Alan Moore & the Jazz Butcher) -- Litvinoff's book (Alan Moore, David J., Tim Perkins) -- The murders on the Rue Morgue (The Satanic Nurses) -- Leopardman at C & A (Alan Moore & Tim Perkins) -- Experience (excerpt) (Alan Moore & Tim Perkins) -- You are my asylum (Alan Moore, Downtown Joe Brown & The Retro Spankees) -- Closing (Alan Moore, Gary Lloyd) -- Town of lights (Alan Moore, David J., Tim Perkins).
  
• Subjects:Moore, Alan, 1953---Biography.
  Moore, Alan, 1953-
  Moore, Alan 1953-
  Moore, Alan, 1953-
  Cartoonists--Great Britain--Biography.
  Comic books, strips, etc--Authorship.
  Cartoonists.
  Comic books, strips, etc.--Authorship.
  English authors--Biography.
  Cartoonists--Biography.
  Comic books, strips, etc.--Authorship.
  Great Britain.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Delany, Samuel R.--Ownership.
  
• Genre/Form:Biography.
  Sound recordings.
  Biographies.
  Sound recordings.
  Biographies.
  
• Also listed under:Samuel R. Delany Library (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library). Reading library.
  United States--New York (State)--New York.