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...tough when you're a comix snob like me. Finding a book with the right combination of highbrow intelligence and lowbrow kicks has gotten nearly impossible. Fortunately the world still has Alan Moore, the English comicbook writer who first achieved stateside acclaim in the 1980s with "The Watchmen." For the last couple of years Moore has been the principle writer of multiple titles under the America's Best Comics imprint of Wildstorm Productions (an imprint of DC Comics, a subsidiary of TIME.com's parent corporation, AOL Time Warner). Out of the various projects, "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," "Tom Strong...
...SPIEGELMAN'S "MAUS," DEPICTING HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS, WILL GO ON TO WIN A PULITZER. FRANK MILLER'S "THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS" AND ALAN MOORE'S "THE WATCHMEN" REDEFINE SUPERHEROES. ALL THREE RECEIVE MAINSTREAM ATTENTION, AND COMICS BEGIN TO ENJOY SOME RESPECTABILITY...
...swirled into the atmospheric mists of Whitechapel, London. The comic version may well turn out to be the writer Alan Moore's magnum opus. Meticulously researched, it took five years to complete and totals over 500 pages, including copious footnotes. Moore first gained mainstream media exposure when his "Watchmen" series, about the killings of retired superheroes, established him as a master at orchestrating long-term themes and motifs in the uniquely visual literature of comix. His "From Hell," goes further by turning non-fiction into a singular artistic vision tying together art, history and the supernatural...
Though Kandahar's hospitals were filled with casualties, the only troops killed, Alokzai said, were boys "left behind at the airport as night watchmen." Where once 10,000 Taliban supporters had gathered to pray in the Halqa Cherif mosque, now fewer than a hundred did. In the town, the Taliban's exodus left its Arab sympathizers at the mercy of the townsfolk; at least three were murdered for their watches and motorcycles. But the Taliban was preparing to fight. On just one day, more than 45 trucks left Kandahar for redoubts in the high mountains. They were filled with guns...
...communication and exploration of important social issues. In recent years many weighty topics, including AIDS and racism have found expression through its pages. In fact, comics have so effectively closed the gap between popular entertainment and literature that many critically acclaimed stories, such as Alan Moore’s Watchmen and Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns have found their way onto college literature syllabuses...