Item Type | Magazine Article |
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Author | Mark Borax |
Issue | 32 |
Pages | 36-59 |
Publication | David Anthony Kraft's Comics Interview |
Date | 1986 |
Item Type | Magazine Article |
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Author | Al Gordon |
Issue | 22 |
Pages | 36-54 |
Publication | David Anthony Kraft’s Comics Interview |
Date | 1985 |
Item Type | Magazine Article |
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Author | Richard J. Arndt |
Volume | 3 |
Issue | 135 |
Pages | 3-39 |
Publication | Alter Ego |
ISSN | 1932-6890 |
Date | September 2015 |
Item Type | Book Section |
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Author | Peter Jay Ingrao |
Series | Southern literary studies |
Place | Baton Rouge |
Publisher | Louisiana State University Press |
Pages | 45-59 |
ISBN | 978-0-8071-7350-3 |
Date | 2020 |
Book Title | Swamp souths: literary and cultural ecologies |
Item Type | Blog Post |
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Author | Daniel Best |
URL | https://ohdannyboy.blogspot.com/2014/12/how-dc-comics-sold-alan-moore-in-1980.html |
Date | Dec 4 2014 |
Accessed | 2023-09-11 |
Blog Title | 20th Century Danny Boy |
Item Type | Book Section |
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Editor | Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns |
Editor | John Darowski |
Author | John Darowski |
Place | Lanham |
Publisher | Lexington |
Pages | 203-218 |
ISBN | 978-1-66691-906-6 |
Date | 2023 |
Book Title | A critical companion to Wes Craven |
Item Type | Presentation |
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Presenter | Stephen R. Bissette |
URL | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PnKsyyn-LOHGE3-5qxdtYLUijny5IAIb/view?usp=sharing |
Place | Jackson, MI |
Date | 20 03 2021 |
Meeting Name | Jackson Concatenation Convention |
Item Type | Magazine Article |
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Author | Stephen Bissette |
Issue | 32 |
Pages | 14+ |
Publication | Comics Feature |
Date | Nov.-Dec. 1984 |
Item Type | Magazine Article |
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Author | Stephen Bissette |
Issue | 31 |
Pages | 8+ |
Publication | Comics Feature |
Date | Sept.-Oct. 1984 |
Item Type | Magazine Article |
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Author | Stephen Bissette |
Issue | 30 |
Pages | 16+ |
Publication | Comics Feature |
Date | July-August 1984 |
Item Type | Book Section |
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Place | Burbank, CA |
Publisher | DC Comics |
Pages | 309-312 |
ISBN | 978-1-77951-730-2 |
Date | 2022 |
Book Title | Absolute Swamp Thing By Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson |
Item Type | Book Section |
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Author | John Bucher |
Series | Contemporary religion and popular culture |
Place | Cham, Switzerland |
Publisher | Palgrave MacMillan |
Pages | 181-195 |
ISBN | 9783031201263 |
Date | 2023 |
Book Title | A new gnosis: Comic books, comparative mythology and depth psychology |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Małgorzata Olsza |
Issue | 12 |
Pages | 51-68 |
Publication | Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture |
Date | 2022-11-24 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.12.03 |
Abstract | Narratives of the Anthropocene function in the realm of not only scientific but also popular discourses. Indeed, the most popular narratives of the Anthropocene, namely the story of the apocalypse and the story of progress, with their respective temporalities, are particularly well-represented in comics. The present article looks at the Anthropocene through the lenses of word and image, tracing the response of the medium of comics to the ongoing catastrophe, including Joe Sacco’s Paying the Land (2020), Scott Snyder and Yanick Paquette’s modern take on Swamp Thing (2019) and Richard McGuire’s Here (2014). Paying the Land is a story of the Dene people and their response to the Anthropocene. Drawing on the opposition between nature and progress, it examines whether empathy can stop capitalistic exploitation of Indigenous communities and the land which they cherish. Swamp Thing, seemingly a narrative of environmental apocalypse, also functions as a story of ecological reconciliation and regeneration. Finally, Here builds on and deconstructs the narrative of progress, demonstrating how a specific location has and will be transformed from 3,000,500,000 BCE to 22,175 CE, offering the reader/viewer a non-chronological look at environmental changes. Apart from the visions of the now and the future that these graphic narratives present, temporality coded in their “grammar” (layout, panels and gutters) is also discussed. |
Item Type | Book Section |
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Author | Jeffrey McCambridge |
Editor | Douglas Brode |
Place | Jefferson |
Publisher | McFarland & Co. |
Pages | 146-157 |
ISBN | 978-1-4766-8737-7 |
Date | 2022 |
Book Title | The DC Comics Universe: Critical essays |
Item Type | Podcast |
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URL | https://deconstructingcomics.com/?p=7808 |
Extra | March 30 2022 |
Accessed | 2022-04-17 |
Series Title | Deconstructing Comics |
Running Time | 1 hour 3 minutes |
File Type | mp3 |
Abstract | While Kumar read Swamp Thing by Alan Moore and other ’70s and ’80s versions of the character well after they were published, his first “real time” reading of swampy was the early ’90s run written by novelist Nancy Collins. With Scot Eaton, Tom Mandrake, Kim DeMulder, and Tatjana Wood on art, Collins took the plant-man in some interesting directions. This time Kumar shares his thoughts on re-reading the run, and Emmet chimes in on his impressions after reading it for the first time. |
Episode Number | 729 |
Item Type | Blog Post |
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Author | Steve J. Ray |
URL | https://dccomicsnews.com/2021/11/20/dcn-exclusive-interview-ram-v/ |
Date | Nov. 20 2021 |
Accessed | 2021-11-25 |
Blog Title | DC Comics News |
Item Type | Book Section |
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Author | Victoria Addis |
Series | Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology |
Place | Cham, Switzerland |
Publisher | Palgrave MacMillan |
Pages | 417-432 |
ISBN | 978-3-030-54485-0 |
Date | 2021 |
Book Title | Men, Maculinities, and Earth: Contending with the (M)Anthropocene |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Kyle D. Killian |
URL | https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2020.1859761 |
Volume | 18 |
Issue | 6 |
Pages | 1017-1032 |
Publication | Globalizations |
ISSN | 1474-7731 |
Date | January 22, 2021 |
Extra | Publisher: Routledge |
DOI | 10.1080/14747731.2020.1859761 |
Abstract | ABSTRACT A recurring narrative in popular culture is imminent global catastrophe. Contextualizing the cultural phenomenon of disaster porn, I discuss the Anthropocene and explore Gregory Bateson?s ecosystemic theoretical lens and how errors in epistemology precipitate and perpetuate global climate problems. Next I discuss the pros and cons, and intended and unintended consequences, of disaster porn?s propagation in its three main forms. I then apply themes and concepts of ecosystemic theory and disaster porn to an analysis of the 2019 TV series Swamp Thing, sifting the algae-filled waters for explicit and implicit messaging about the current ecological crisis. I conclude with reflections about cultural consciousness regarding climate change, and how the urgency and gravity of this global crisis is subverted, commodified and neutralized as audiences sit back and watch it all happen, consuming apocalyptic ?entertainment?. |
Item Type | Book Section |
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Author | Jackson Ayres |
Series | Bloomsbury Comics Studies |
Place | London |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
Pages | 52-58 |
ISBN | 978-1-350-06047-0 |
Date | 2021 |
Book Title | Alan Moore: A Critical Guide |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Rich Handley |
Volume | 1 |
Issue | 5 |
Pages | 18-31 |
Publication | Holland Files |
Date | Winter 2021 |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Cole Hornaday |
Volume | 1 |
Issue | 5 |
Pages | 6-12 |
Publication | Holland Files |
Date | Winter 2021 |
Item Type | Magazine Article |
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Author | Joe Nazzaro |
Issue | 20 |
Pages | 20-23 |
Publication | Prosthetics Magazine |
Date | Winter 2020 |
Item Type | Magazine Article |
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Author | Jeff Lang |
Issue | 182 |
Pages | 42-47 |
Publication | Amazing Heroes |
ISSN | 0745-6506 |
Date | August 1990 |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Rikke Platz Cortsen |
URL | https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2014.913647 |
Volume | 5 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 397-410 |
Publication | Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics |
ISSN | 2150-4857 |
Date | October 2, 2014 |
Extra | Publisher: Routledge |
Journal Abbr | Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics |
DOI | 10.1080/21504857.2014.913647 |
Abstract | Alan Moore and his collaborating artists often manipulate time and space by drawing upon the formal elements of comics and making alternative constellations. This article looks at an element that is used frequently in comics of all kinds ? the full page ? and discusses how it helps shape spatio-temporal relations within the stories told, specifically in terms of full pages in connection with apocalypses. The spatio-temporal quality of the apocalypse is complex in that it concerns an event that is an ending and at the same time a continuation of time; and this double temporal quality is, it is argued here, something that it shares with the full page in comics. Through an analysis of several full pages from Moore titles like Swamp Thing, From Hell, Watchmen and Promethea, it is made clear why the full page provides an apt vehicle for an apocalypse in comics. |
Item Type | Journal Article |
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Author | M. Cecilia Marchetto Santorun |
URL | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0451-2 |
Volume | 6 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 91 |
Publication | Palgrave Communications |
ISSN | 2055-1045 |
Date | May 12, 2020 |
Journal Abbr | Palgrave Communications |
DOI | 10.1057/s41599-020-0451-2 |
Abstract | William Blake’s illuminated books are full of depictions of the monstrous, like Orc’s or Urizen’s metamorphoses, bestial figures such as the Leviathan in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (c. 1790–1793), and the masses of blood and flesh appearing in The Book of Urizen (1794). In contrast to eighteenth-century discourses in which moral virtue and monstrosity were polar opposites, Blake’s universe is more complex and presents an ambivalent attitude towards revolution and social transgression embodied in the monstrous. The meanings of the monstrous in Blake are associated with evil in his works, where it can be understood as released or repressed energies, two types which correspond, respectively, to liberation or alienation. Via countercultural influence, Blakean antinomianism filtered down to Alan Moore, for whom the notion of evil depends on perspectives; thus, in Moore, the socially unacceptable can appear as monstrous, but monstrosity is also a mode through which to make visible the oppressive order that defines transgression as such. This article will discuss Blake and Moore’s use of visual and verbal aesthetics to identify as monstrous characters like Satan, Urizen and Orc in Blake and William Gull, Asmodeus and Cthulhu in Moore to pinpoint the meanings that underlie them and how the direct or indirect Blakean influence operates in Moore’s works. This will contribute to trace changes in their meanings as they pass from signifying energy to tyranny, from unfallenness to fallenness, or from conventional to visionary perception. This exploration will also show the changes in their mode of representation, contributing to understand the peculiarities of the Gothic side of Moore’s construction of Blakean vision. To do this, a series of parallels found in several examples from Alan Moore’s graphic novels will be analysed, especially Swamp Thing (1984–1987), where the hero is a vegetable–human hybrid; From Hell (1989–1998), where the villain acts as both mad scientist and monster in his perverse endeavour to violently reshape female desire to his will; Promethea (1999–2005), where a divine emanation is perceived as a threatening devil by opposing fundamentalists; and finally the horrible entities in Neonomicon (2010–2011) and Providence (2015–2017). |