Bøger udgivet af Knockabout Comics

Following the huge success of From Hell, Knockabout presents a stunning volume comprising a new story by Alan Moore, Snakes and Ladders, based on a performance given on Red Lion Square in Holborn. The other story, originally a performance piece by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins, was adapted as a comic by Eddie Campbell. It is a shamanism of childhood, a journey from the present to the past, back into the womb and beyond. The last part of this volume is an extensive interview of Alan Moore he gave Eddie Campbell for his self-published magazine, Egomania.

In a story full of lust, madness, and ecstasy, we meet twelve distinctive characters that lived in the same region of central England over the span of six thousand years. Their narratives are woven together in patterns of recurring events, strange traditions, and uncanny visions.

An introduction sampler to The Freak Brothers for the new reader, containing a selection of the best classic strips.

A fascinating companion volume which is the same page size as "From Hell" itself, with illustrative material on every spread. Features a selection of the best of Alan Moore's script sequences, most of which haven't been seen before.

Since the dawn of humanity, there have been individuals who want to mess around with Hidden Powers - with the Occult. Some were Mystics, some were Scientists, some were Charlatans. Some were Powerful, some were Wretched. All were pretty bonkers. Kevin Jackson and Hunt Emerson have made over 100 pages of comics dealing with the Lives of the Great Occultists. Over 40 Occultists in all, including Faust, Giordano Bruno, Strindberg, Isobel Gowdie, Kircher, William Blake, PL Travers, WB Yeats, Jack Parsons, and - repeatedly - Aleister Crowley. The comics are factual, and very funny.

A striking graphic novel debut exploring inter-generational strife in a devout Muslim household.

Originally a performance piece by Alan Moore and Tim Perkins, The Birth Caul is a shamanism of childhood, a journey from the present to the past, back into the womb and beyond. The magical creation theory story of love, death and resurrection Snakes and Ladders was also a performance, entwining the disinterment of Oliver Cromwell and Elizabeth Siddal, the visionary nature of Arthur Machen''s experiences after the death of his wife and Alan Moore''s magical traveller, John Constantine.

Ill-fated lottery winner Darren Bloke is visited by the ghost of Victorian art critic and social thinker John Ruskin, who takes him on a voyage of discovery towards viewing the world more creatively and industriously. Part satire, part economic and philosophical treatise, this graphic novel's release coincides with an exhibition of Hunt Emerson's artwork at Brantwood in Cumbria commemorating the 200th anniversary of Ruskin's birth.

The renowned political cartoonist whose work has appeared in every major British newspaper addresses the state of the world through seven 'silent' (wordless) comics.

Paul and Louise love each other and get married, but WWI separates them. Paul, who wants to escape the hell of the trenches, becomes a deserter and finds Louise in Paris. He is condemned to hide in a hotel room. To put an end to his clandestine existence, Paul imagines a solution: to change his identity. Now he''ll be known as Suzanne. Between gender confusion and the trauma of war, the couple will arrive at an unusual destiny. Inspired by real facts, Deserter''s Masquerade is the story of Louise and her transvestite husband who loved and were torn apart in the Paris of the Roaring Twenties.

Yes!! It is 50 years since the world''s best-loved and best-known underground comic characters first appeared in The Rag in Austin, Texas. Now published in 16 languages and with global sales of over 40 million copies. This souvenir extravaganza contains brand new strips: Phineas becomes a Suicide Bomber, Franklin got his Gun, Fat Freddy gets Religion, and more Freak Brothers short strips. Also included are an up to date interview with Shelton and a gallery of Freak Brothers parody strips by Robert Crumb, Hunt Emerson and more.

Gilbert Shelton is the creator of the multi-million selling Freak Brothers and Fat Freddy's Cat. Wonder Wart-Hog was his earliest creation and probably still his favourite. The character has appeared over the years in publications varying from Drag Cartoons to Zap Comix as well as several comics of his own. There is even a Wonder Wart-Hog motocross team!

It''s 1925, fifteen years after the death of Captain Nemo, when his daughter Janni Dakkar launches a grand Antarctic expedition to lay the old man''s burdensome legacy to rest. Accompanied by Nemo''s shipmate Ishmael, a ration of rum and her father''s log, Janni embarks on a perilous journey to the bottom of the world pursued by employees of the megalomaniacal Charles Foster Kane who seek the return of plundered loot. Jules Verne meets H.P. Lovecraft in the final showdown beneath the Mountains of Madness - the uncharted gap in the map where our hero''s reality cracks.

Rumoured for years, Drawn Together charts the daily exploits and erotic craziness of the first couple of comics.

The apocalyptic climax of the third and most ambitious volume to contain the League''s unfolding narrative, CENTURY: 2009 turns its scrutiny of the entire fictional landscape to the presently uproarious era as it hurtles to a staggering conclusion that even immortal champions may not survive. The eternal ambiguity Orlando is returned to an unrecognisable contemporary London and a collapsing world of moral, social and financial destitution. The intended antichrist is born, and even the most powerful eminences of the Blazing World have not been able to forestall his coming.

The second volume detailing the exploits of Miss Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues.

In a world where all the fictions ever written coalesce to a mosaic of history, it''s 1975. Janni Dakkar, pirate queen of Lincoln Island and head of the fabled Nemo family, is 80 years old and reportedly in psychological ill health. Pursuing shadows from her past or her imagination, she embarks on what may be a final voyage down the vastness of the Amazon, a last attempt to put to rest the spectres of her blood-drenched past. In River of Ghosts, Alan Moore and Kevin O''Neill steer their fifty-year long Nemo trilogy to its remarkable conclusion.

1814, off the Durham coast, near the village of Hartlepool, a war-ship in the Napoleonic fleet founders during a storm and sinks. At day-break, fishermen discover a survivor: a monkey dressed in full military regalia, the mascot. The good people of Hartlepool despise all Frenchmen, though they have never seen one in the flesh. Nor have they ever see a monkey. But this brutish, bestial castaway tallies with the impression they have of the enemy, and the ape is court-martialled. Inspired by this famous legend, this is a tragi-comic fable of war and jingoism.

The third volume detailing the exploits of Miss Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues, Century is a 216-page epic spanning almost 100 years. Chapter one is set against the backdrop of London in 1910, 12 years after the failed Martian invasion and nine years since England put a man on the moon. With Halley''s Comet passing overhead, the nation prepares for the coronation of King George V, while far away on his South Atlantic island, the science-pirate Captain Nemo is dying.