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Meet the Magus, Part 1: The Birth Caul
Allow me to introduce you to a man you may have met before through his writing, art, or interviews. He has copious amounts of hair, lives in Northampton, UK, and while he has the reputation… [more]
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Meet the Magus, Part 2: The Universal Dance in Alan Moore and Eddie...
When we discuss the relationship between Alan Moore’s artistic works and magic, clearly marked boundaries become, instead, borderlands of relationship. Taken out of context, a particular statement by...
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Meet the Magus, Part 3: The Deep Green, Jack of the Green, and the Swamp Thing
Ten years before Alan Moore informed friends and family that he would be pursuing the path of a practicing magician, he began working for the megalithic American comics company DC on the production of...
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Meet the Magus, Part 4: Phantasmagoria and the Occult in Saga of the Swamp Thing
The most pertinent question to ask of ourselves at the outset of discussing fictional works by Moore that deal in some way with magic or even the occult is “what is the difference between a… [more]
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Meet the Magus, Part 5: Microcosm, Macrocosm, and Magic in V for Vendetta
V for Vendetta may well be Alan Moore’s most politically concerned work, and its sci-fi dystopian vision has a decidedly practical edge. No doubt it will be mined for decades to come by commentators...
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Meet the Magus, Part 6: A World Inside, Outside in Alan Moore and Oscar...
Three years before Alan Moore announced his decision to become a magician and roughly four years before the performance event of The Birth Caul, he collaborated with Oscar Zarate on an unusual graphic...
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Meet the Magus, Part 7: Dualism and the Dark Side in Batman: The Killing Joke
For fans, many of the works that Alan Moore produced for DC carry the shadow of later acrimony between the author and publisher, regardless of whether Moore was unhappy with DC at the time he… [more]
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Meet the Magus, Part 8: Transforming Perception in Another Suburban Romance
Quite a few of Moore’s works don’t merely feature transformative themes but display a capacity for transformation themselves. By taking on new forms, they lead what could be described as parallel or...
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Meet the Magus 9, Gods and Demons: From Hell Part I
In subject matter, history, and art style, From Hell stands apart from other works written by Alan Moore, but that hasn’t made it obscure, rather notorious. If its Jack the Ripper subject matter was...
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Meet the Magus 10, The Magus in Time: From Hell Part II
Alan Moore is still better known for his super-hero work than for his esoterically themed or experimental genre-breakers, but this may not always be the case. As he proceeds further in time from the...
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Neil Gaiman: The Early Years, Black Orchid’s Passive and Impassive Universe...
Neil Gaiman, like Alan Moore, is someone working in comics who seems to need no introduction. Their influence and impact is so pervasive that they’ve practically become a household name. But there’s a...
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Neil Gaiman: The Early Years, Black Orchid (Part 2), “Gangsters and Scientists”
Continued from part 1. In the introduction to the first collected edition of Black Orchid, Neil Gaiman wrote, “I know that some people regard this writing as escapist fiction, but I think that tales...
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Neil Gaiman: The Early Years, The Magician’s Choice in The Books of Magic
The Books of Magic was published from 1990-1991, at a time when Sandman was underway and gathering steam but the Vertigo universe was still forming, and demarcations between Vertigo and the DC Universe...
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Doctor Who as Warden in the 50th Anniversary “Prisoners of Time” Series
IDW’s comic series “Prisoners of Time”, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Doctor, is a twelve-parter devised with an overarching plot to hold the tales of each respective regeneration of the...
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