By Rex Krueger and Katherine Shaeffer Throughout his career, Alan Moore has shown both a penchant and a skill for reweaving the elements of earlier texts…
By Colin Beineke In 1984 British comics writer Alan Moore entered boldly into the ongoing dialogue within American popular culture regarding the current state of ecological…
By Megan Condis Individual black women engaged in feminist movement, writing feminist theory, have persisted in our efforts to deconstruct the category “woman” and argued that…
By Vyshali Manivannan Overlooking its famously nonlinear structure, incorporation of multiple genres and unremitting examination of comics culture, print media and television, Alan Moore’s Watchmen is superficially conducive…
By Paul Petrovic Critics of the graphic novel Watchmen (1986-7) traditionally marginalize Laurie Juspeczyk (Silk Spectre) in favor of mapping out more overt complex characters like Dr.…
By Jack Teiwes Alan Moore’s body of work on Superman has been long, sporadic and varied, and at its core has served as the site for…
By Eric L. Berlatsky Di Liddo, Annalisa. Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2009. Print. As Annalisa Di Liddo…
By Ellen Grabiner Lunning, Frenchy, ed. Mechademia 4: War/Time. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. Print. When asked if they are familiar with “manga” or “anime,”…
By Mervi Miettinen McLaughlin, Jeff, ed. Comics as Philosophy. Minneapolis, MN: University Press of Mississippi, 2005. Print. For an essay collection that aims at exploring the connections…
Editor’s note: As it has done in most cases in their Conversations series, The University Press of Mississippi has chosen the perfect editor for interviews with Art…