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The Diegetic Panelisation Of Alan Moore And Jacen Burrows' Neonomicon

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The Diegetic Panelisation Of Alan Moore And Jacen Burrows' Neonomicon

David Smart (allyourbasicgerrard) gives a video review of Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows' Neonomicon, looking at the very metatextual language used in the comic book. And the clues to a world that is defined and ruled by the prescence, if never explicitly stated of the panel, the gutter, the architecture of the comic book page as it impacts on the characters within. They are ruled by its structure yet never aware of their reality. Apart from the ones that are of course.

Some have criticised this comic for being too simple, too basic, not Moore-y enough. This should open one or two eyes.

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Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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