A Disease Of Language - Hardcover

Eddie Campbell; Alan Moore

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0861661532 ISBN 13: 9780861661534

Publisher: Knockabout Comics, 2006

Synopsis

From Alan Moore's interest in magic he created two performance pieces The Birth Caul and Snakes & Ladders, which Eddie Campbell has adapted as graphic works. This book also contains the acclaimed interview with Alan Moore by Eddie Campbell from Egomania, and features a never-before-seen sketchbook of the working drawings for Snakes & Ladders

About this title

Synopsis:

Originally a performance piece by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins, "The Birth Caul", adapted as a comic by Eddie Campbell, is a shamanism of childhood, a journey from the present to the past, back into the womb and beyond. The magical creation theory story of love, death and resurrection, "Snakes and Ladders" was also a performance, entwining the disinterment of Oliver Cromwell and Elizabeth Siddell (to retrieve Rossetti's poems), the visionary nature of Arthur Machen's experiences after the death of his wife and Alan Moore's magical traveller John Constantine. In Eddie Campbell's self published magazine, "Egomania", he interviewed Alan Moore at length to produce (possibly) the most informative and fascinating insights into the creative process and Alan's study of magical realities. This title includes the studies of magic and rebirth. It features: "The Birth Caul"; "Snakes and Ladders"; "Egomania Magazine"; and Alan Moore Interview.

About the Author:

Alan Moore is the best known comic book writer, author of From Hell, Watchmen, V for Vendetta and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Eddie Campbell is the creator of Bacchus, The Fate of the Artist and has won multiple awards for his autobiographical Alec stories.Moore resides in the UK and Campbell in Australia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knockabout Comics
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0861661532
• ISBN 13: 9780861661534
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160