scholarly journals Watchmen: héroes y terapia del shock. Un diálogo entre Damon Lindelof y Alan Moore

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Bartual
Keyword(s):  
Alan Moore

El artículo tiene como propósito establecer un diálogo entre Watchmen, el cómic de Alan Moore y Dave Gibbons, y su continuación televisiva, realizada bajo la dirección creativa de Damon Lindelof. Este diálogo se establece sobre el contenido político de ambas obras, puntualmente en su crítica al neoliberalismo como régimen político y económico. Argumentamos que el espacio temático y narrativo tanto del cómic como de la serie es similar porque ambos construyen su narración como una crítica a este conjunto de ideas, y que sus diferencias proceden del modo en que se vinculan y comentan sobre los cambios experimentados por el neoliberalismo a lo largo de 30 años. Finalmente, proponemos una interpretación anarquista de ambas obras.

scholarly journals A INTERTEXTUALIDADE COMO ELEMENTO FUNDADOR N'A LIGA EXTRAORDINÁRIA

2017 ◽  
pp. 204
Author(s):  
Ismael Bernardo Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Julia Kristeva ◽  
Graphic Novel ◽  
Alan Moore

O presente artigo propõe a intertextualidade como um elemento fundamental na obra de Alan Moore, presente através de diversas abordagens que resultam numa reavaliação dos elementos referenciados. Ao analisar como esse elemento se manifesta em sua obra como um todo, pretende-se igualmente argumentar que na sua graphic novel A Liga Extraordinária, em específico, a intertextualidade tem um papel de elemento fundador, devido à complexidade e diversidade de seu uso. Como bibliografia central, utilizam-se os conceitos de intertextualidade, de Júlia Kristeva, e gêneros do discurso, de Bakhtin.

scholarly journals (Anti)Fascism and Superhero Comics: An Anthropological Examination of Innovativeness in Comic Books as Exemplified by "V for Vendetta"

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miloš Zarić
Keyword(s):  
Comic Books ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Semiotic Model ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Semantic Dimension ◽  
Alan Moore ◽  
The Way ◽  
V For Vendetta

The paper analyzes the V for Vendetta comic books, written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd. These volumes are graphic novels whose characteristics place them in the literary genre of the critical dystopia, but they have also been associated with the genre of the superhero comic, which, according to a number of authors including Alan Moore, is inextricably linked to the ideology and practice of the political right, which in its extreme form assumes the form of fascism. The way that fascism is treated in that work, as well as in two other comics discussed in the paper (Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s Watchmen and Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns), is linked to the way in which the process of creativity/innovativeness functioned in the context of the revision/deconstruction of the superhero comic book genre in the 1980s, both on the collective (intra-genre) and the individual level, on the level of the thought structure of the British writer Alan Moore. Using the structural-semiotic model of analysis, the paper seeks to fathom the logic of this deconstruction procedure "broken down" into the three comic books discussed in the paper, with particular emphasis on the analysis of V for Vendetta, with the aim of establishing its "hidden", connotative semantic dimension. The study adopts a modern view of the comic book according to which the essence of this medium, which distinguishes it from other narrative and graphic forms of expression as well as from film, can be recognized in the specific, sequential way of combining its visual and narrative components, thus generating meanings whose interpretation depends on the intention of the author but also on the view of the reader.

Danger, Disease, and Death in the Graphic Urban Imagination

2019 ◽  
pp. 174-216
Author(s):  
Benjamin Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Disease Transmission ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Graphic Novel ◽  
Alien Invasion ◽  
Urban Imagination ◽  
Alan Moore ◽  
The City ◽  
Jack The Ripper

This chapter explores how diverse storytelling modes invoke the modern discourses of urban threat. The Eternaut, created by writer Héctor Germán Oesterheld and illustrator Francisco Solano López, stages an alien invasion in the city of Buenos Aires. Dengue by Rodolfo Santullo and Matías Bergara tells a story of invasion and disease transmission in Montevideo. Urban detective literature and the mystery/occult story are fused in Jacques Tardi’s The Extraordinary Adventures of Ade`le Blanc- Sec, whose action unfolds in Paris. Created by Japanese artist Tsutomu Nihei, Blame! fictionalizes the verticality and immense scale associated with Tokyo in a visual dystopian tale. Adapting a now discredited theory on the Jack-the-Ripper serial killings, Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s graphic novel From Hell links the slums, architecture, and patriarchal violence of Victorian London. Fábio Moon, and Gabriel Bá’s Daytripper treads fearlessly into serial confrontations with mortality in and beyond the context of São Paolo.

Revisionism and the British Invasion (1981–1993)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Murray
Keyword(s):  
Alan Moore ◽  
V For Vendetta

This chapter examines the development of the revisionist trend in British comics as well as the so-called British Invasion of American comics and its afermath during the period 1981–1993. It argues that revisionism was a continuation and refocusing of the satirical reaction to the superhero genre that has been in evidence in British comics for decades. The chapter first considers Captain Britain, written by Alan Moore for Marvel UK, before discussing Marvelman and V for Vendetta, also created by Moore, this time for Warrior. It then turns to Watchmen (1986) by Moore and Dave Gibbons, one of the most influential superhero comics of all time; Paradax, a character introduced in 1985 by Eclipse Comics in Strange Days #3; Zenith (1987); and the satire Marshal Law (1987). It also analyzes publications that parody the superhero genre, including How to Be a Superhero (1990) and 1963 (1993).

Villain Becomes Hero

2019 ◽  
pp. 137-144
Author(s):  
Allan Metcalf
Keyword(s):  
Young Woman ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Graphic Novel ◽  
Fascist Regime ◽  
Alan Moore ◽  
Second Coming ◽  
V For Vendetta

Another diversion is necessary to acknowledge the return of Guy Fawkes in the present day. No, it’s not his Second Coming, but there is awareness of Guy Fawkes as a role model for modern-day activists and protesters. It has come particularly from Alan Moore and David Lloyd, creators of the graphic novel “V for Vendetta,” a serial first published as a book in 1988. It imagines a ruthless Fascist regime in England in the 1990s, opposed by a lone rebel who calls himself simply V, and who always wears a mask that is a simplified adaptation of the sketches of Guy Fawkes back in the 1600s, but with a smile. The resemblance to Fawkes is emphasized at the very beginning, where unlike Fawkes he casually blows up the houses of Parliament after reciting “Remember, remember, the fifth of December” to a young woman he has just rescued from the police. The story became a movie with Hugo Weaving as V and Natalie Portman as the rescued girl Evey. The masks were used by Occupy protesters and others early in the 21st century. Rather than an arch-villain, V and the mask now signal opposition to government tyranny. This chapter briefly cites Guy Fawkes’s 19th-century adaptations and references, including the beginning of Thomas Hardy’s 1888 novel, Return of the Native.

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