Alan Moore, Out from the Underground

Maggie Gray is Lecturer in Critical and Historical Studies at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, London, UK.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. the Marks of the Arts Lab: Comics, Performance, and the Counterculture.- Chapter 3. the Play of the Press: Cartooning, Materiality, and the Underground in Print.- Chapter 4. the Sound of the Underground: Comics, Music and the Politics of Punk.

"Central to Gray's study is how Moore approached his cartoons through the lens of comics as performance ... . The biggest strength of Gray's writing and research lies in her ability to not only analyze Moore's early cartooning work, but to first provide in-depth and insightful contextual sketches of the individuals, publications, and bands that affected Moore's work." (Jeremy M. Carnes, Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, Vol. 3 (1), 2019)

"Each chapter of this book considers Moore's creative output in a specific situation of production. ... this book hopes to offer an alternative way of seeing Alan Moore's work that uncovers the specifics of his visual sensibility and thereby enhances understanding of his oeuvre. By lookingin this strange way at a creator emblematic of the literary turn in comics studies, it is also hoped it will contribute to pressing debates in the field ... ." (Scriptable, rtreview.org, Issue 16, May, 2018)