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This book shows how European, American and Asian artists haveexplored the possibility of the form in the years since. EroticComics: A Graphic History Volume 2 examines how the form has becomean international publishing phenomenon by showcasing artwork thathas inflamed desires, incensed censors, and caused controversy.

The work of Alan Moore ("Watchmen", "V for Vendetta", "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen") during the 1980s is a benchmark for great stories with fresh approaches to iconic characters. Collected in this volume are all of Moore's Superman and Batman stories, including "Action Comics" numbered 583, "Batman Annual" numbered 11, "DC Comics Presents" numbered 85, "Detective Comics" numbered 549-550, "Green Lantern" numbered 188, "The Omega Men" numbered 26-27, "Secret Origins" numbered 10, "Superman" numbered 423, "Tales of the Green Lantern Corps Annual" numbered 2 & 3, "Superman Annual" numbered 11, and "Vigilante" numbered 17-18, plus "Voodoo" numbered 1-4, "Deathblow: By Blows" numbered 1-3, and more!

London, 1898. The Victorian Era draws to a close and the twentieth century approaches. It is a time of great change and an age of stagnation, a period of chaste order and ignoble chaos. It is an era in need of champions. In this amazingly imaginative tale, literary figures from throughout time and various bodies of work are brought together to face any and all threats to Britain. Allan Quatermain, Mina Murray, Captain Nemo, Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde and Hawley Griffin, the Invisible Man, form a remarkable legion of intellectual aptitude and physical prowess: "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen".

Now in trade paperback, this title collects issues #20-27 of the seminal horror series, starting with "The Anatomy Lesson," a haunting origin story with terrifying revelations.

Troufnete si pohlédnout na viktoriánskou Anglii… očima Jacka Rozparovače? Milovníkům teorií spiknutí nabízíme mistrně propracovanou lahůdku kombinující historický román s literaturou faktu a mystikou. Film režisérské dvojice bratří Hughesových, který podle tohoto monumentálního díla vznikl, jen klouže po zamrzlé hladině Moorova děsivého příběhu. Velekněz komiksového žánru Alan Moore, tvůrce kultovních komiksů Strážci, Ztracené dívky a tří svazků Ligy výjimečných, se tentokrát pustil do rozboru nejzáhadnější série vražd v historii. Hrdinou příběhu je lékař William Withey Gull, jenž poslední dobou tráví svůj volný čas trochu zvláštním způsobem, s Listonovým nožem v ruce. Ale co by člověk neudělal pro vlast… Scéna: nerealisticky krásná a mírně přiopilá prostitutka jde ztemnělou ulicí a falešně si prozpěvuje dobovou písničku. Střih, stín muže s cylindrem na hlavě a kabelou v ruce, vržený na studenou, vlhkou zeď. Ona si všimne, že za ní někdo jde. Zrychlí krok, on také, to vše se na dlažebních kostkách dobře rozléhá. Prudce oddechující nevěstka uhne do postranní uličky, vrah za ní. Pak záběr na zvednutý nůž, její tvář, výkřik, vychlístne krev, třeba na plakát muzikálu. Roztmívačka, další záběr na policistu, jak vydechne: „Ach bože,“ a píská na píšťalku. Nuže, to je stereotyp Jacka Rozparovače, jak jej známe z filmu – a nic takového v Moorově románu nenajdeme. Moore nezakrývá, že smrt těch šlapek kdesi v postranní uličce byla hnusná, bídná a nezasloužená. Neumožňuje čtenářům uniknout do pohodlného hororového klišé, naopak, ukazuje příšernou a nepřikrášlenou pravdu. To by ale samo o sobě nestačilo. V románu není důležité, kdo je vrah (to ostatně víme od první stránky), ale jak a proč se to všechno stalo. A tak čtenář stejně jako detektiv Dirk Gently v knihách Douglase Adamse neřeší jen samotný případ, ale doslova celý svět, v němž ke zločinu došlo. Viktoriánský svět se všemi jeho klady a zápory, svět úžasného technického pokroku i ponižující bídy, svět královské rodiny, zbytnělé střední třídy a tajných společností, ovšem i svět nejubožejších z ubohých v londýnském East Endu. Podobně jako Ecovo Jméno růže lze román Z pekla číst několika způsoby: jako netradiční detektivku o královském spiknutí, jako beletrizovanou literaturu faktu (a že je Moorovo řešení Rozparovačova případu přesvědčivé) či jako strhující sociologickou črtu viktoriánské společnosti. Anebo jako portrét výjimečně vzdělaného sériového vraha. Není to četba pro každého. Vstupte pouze na vlastní nebezpečí…

Další klasický komiks z dílny mistra scenáristy, Alana Moora, tentokrát jedno z jeho klasických, lety prověřených mistrovských děl. Děsivý a působivý příběh o ztrátě svobody a identity v totalitní společnosti. V JAKO VENDETA, to je obraz světa, kde vládne zoufalství a nic nepromíjející tyranie. V JAKO VENDETA, to je břitký pohled na svět a lidi, inteligence, vtip, hořkost i cit: všechno, čím komiks údajně nikdy neměl být.

Continuing the hardcover collection of master comics writer Alan Moore's award-winning run on The Saga of the Swamp Thing, this fourth volume brings Swamp Thing's quest for self-discovery with the mystic John Constantine to its shattering conclusion. A harbinger of doom has been released with the sole charge of waking an evil beyond comprehension, and Swamp Thing, John Constantine, Deadman, The Phantom Stranger, Etrigan the Demon, The Spectre, and other masters of the occult must unite against the dark forces that threaten to eradicate Heaven's light!

Continuing the collection of master comics writer Alan Moore's award-winning run on The Saga of the Swamp Thing, this fifth volume begins as Swamp Thing returns from his sojourn to hell, only to learn that his girlfriend Abby is being persecuted for their "unnatural relations." When she skips town for Gotham City, he follows and runs afoul of Batman, Lex Luthor, and the Gotham City Police Department. It collects The Saga of the Swamp Thing numbered 51-56.

This collection of issues numbered 57-64 of Swamp Thing begins across the galaxy, where the Swamp Thing's consciousness has been hurled. Trying to find his way back to Earth, Swamp Thing stops over on Thanagar, home of Hawkman; Rann, home of Adam Strange; and encounters the Green Lantern of a world of sentient plants.

Alan Moore takes on some of DC's most classic characters, offering his unforgettable version of the disturbing relationship between the Dark Knight and his greatest foe, the Joker. In this groundbreaking work, Moore creates a twisted tale of insanity and human perseverance. Looking to prove that any man can be pushed past his breaking point to madness, the Joker attempts to drive Commissioner Gordon insane. Refusing to give up, Gordon struggles to maintain his sanity with the help of Batman in a desperate effort to best the madman. This new edition presents the exquisite artwork of Brian Bolland in black and white for the first time. It collects BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE number 1 and a story from BATMAN BLACK AND WHITE.

In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England's Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap housing projects. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district's narrative among its saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts a different kind of human time is happening, a soiled simultaneity that does not differentiate between the petrolcolored puddles and the fractured dreams of those who navigate them. Fiends last mentioned in the second-century Book of Tobit wait in urine-scented stairwells, the delinquent specters of unlucky children undermine a century with tunnels, and in upstairs parlors laborers with golden blood reduce fate to a snooker tournament. An opulent mythology for those without a pot to piss in, through the labyrinthine streets and pages of Jerusalem tread ghosts that sing of wealth and poverty; of Africa, and hymns, and our threadbare millennium. They discuss English as a visionary language from John Bunyan to James Joyce, hold forth on the illusion of mortality post-Einstein, and insist upon the meanest slum as Blake's eternal holy city. Fierce in its imagining and stupefying in its scope, Alan Moore's epic novel, Jerusalem, is the tale of Everything, told from a vanished gutter.

Now presented in stark black and white, highlighting Dave Gibbons dark, moody pencils, read the greatest graphic novel of all time in a whole new way! In an alternate world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed history, the US won the Vietnam War, Nixon is still president, and the Cold War is in full effect. WATCHMEN begins as a murder-mystery, but soon unfolds into a planet-altering conspiracy. As the resolution comes to a head, the unlikely group of reunited heroes--Rorschach, Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, Dr. Manhattan and Ozymandias--have to test the limits of their convictions and ask themselves where the true line is between good and evil. In the mid-eighties, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons created WATCHMEN, changing the course of comics' history and essentially remaking how popular culture perceived the genre. Popularly cited as the point where comics came of age, WATCHMEN's sophisticated take on superheroes has been universally acclaimed for its psychological depth and realism.

The best-selling graphic novel of all time is back in an annotated hardcover edition! In-depth, informative and entertaining, THE ANNOTATED WATCHMEN is a new and fascinating look at Alan Moore's masterpiece.a It all begins with the paranoid delusions of a half-insane hero called Rorschach. But is Rorschach really insane--or has he in fact uncovered a plot to murder superheroes and, even worse, millions of innocent civilians? On the run from the law, Rorschach reunites with his former teammates in a desperate attempt to save the world and their lives, but what they uncover will shock them to their very core and change the face of the planet! Now, DC Comics is proud to present this literary classic in an all-new Annotated Edition format. Edited with page-by-page and panel-by-panel notes, THE ANNOTATED WATCHMEN is a ajourney through every issue of Alan Moore's classic. Complete with commentary, references and hidden meanings, this new hardcover will deepen and enrich our understanding of the acclaimed series.

So much goes unnoticed. We multi-task, switch between screens, work faster. When was the last time you paused to consider a beautifully made object or stunning natural landscape? Yet this is when our spirits lift, our soul is restored. Some say beauty is a luxury. But what if it is key to creating a better world for us all? Designer Alan Moore invites us to rethink not only what we produce whether it s a website, a handmade chair, or a business but how and why. With examples including Pixar, Apple, Yeo Valley and Blitz Motorcycles, we are encouraged to ask: is it useful and considered. Is it a thing of beauty? Do Design you will inspire you to: - Improve your creative process - Raise the quality and craft of your work - Consider the experience as much as the product - Adopt simplicity, utility and honesty as guiding principles We are creative beings. We love to make things. This book will inspire you to create better things, for better reasons. Things that people will love for a long time to come."

Alan Moore (Watchmen) and Eddie Campbell (Bacchus), grandmasters of the comics medium, present a book often ranked among the greatest graphic novels of all time:From Hell. Two master storytellers. Five unsolved murders. A hundred years of mystery. One sprawling conspiracy, onemetropolis on the brink of the twentieth century, one bloody-minded Ripper ushering London into the modern age of terror, and one comics masterpiece.From Hell is now available in a handsome hardcover edition, with a brand new cover.

A powerful story about loss of freedom and individuality, V For Vendetta takes place in a totalitarian England following a devastating war that changed the face of the planet. In a world without political freedom, personal freedom and precious little faith in anything comes a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask who fights political oppressors through terrorism and seemingly absurd acts. It s a gripping tale of the blurred lines between ideological good and evil. Written by one of the greatest scribes in the history of the medium, Alan Moore, V For Vendetta is considered not only one of the most important graphic novel works ever, but also one of the great works in fiction. V For Vendetta 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition brings the groundbreaking title back into hardcover for the first time in years