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Tweak says, "what of the warts?"

arbre_rieur (arbre_rieur) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-25 23:14:00

Entry tags:

char: cobweb, creator: alan moore

Cobweb in the Castle of Tears, by Moore and Gebbie
The first few pages of "Cobweb in the Castle of Tears." With this story, Alan Moore delivered what can only be described as a comic book story unlike any other.

Whoa.

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	endis_ni 2009-04-26 07:22 am UTC (link)
	I have no clue what just happened, but my brain definitely wants more of it. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	lookingforsigns 2009-04-26 12:45 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah. It's like the most sophisticated acid trip ever. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	merseybeatler 2009-04-26 09:59 am UTC (link)
	Hmmm. I...I like it. Although I feel compelled to start speaking in complicated, antiquated patterns... (Reply to this)

	cissie_king 2009-04-26 03:11 pm UTC (link)
	I have never seen them myself, but I think Moore is doing a pastiche of 19th century French proto-comics. I know there are one or two books like these from that period competing for the title of first comic book ever. (Reply to this) (Thread)

uadlika
2009-04-26 05:28 pm UTC (link)

Yes there are. I was really confused when I saw this (especially with the description up top regarding the presumably fake Delcourt) because in my History of Prints class we learned about an artist who took old engravings and made collages of them similar to this. I wondered if perhaps the OP had mislabeled the scans.

Of course, I don't remember the artist or the name of the work...and I sold back my textbook. Grr.

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	(Anonymous) 2009-04-27 05:36 am UTC (link)
	It's also a pastiche of 19th century French symbolism. Seriously, some of those lines are just so Arthur Rimbaud or Charles Baudelaire that it's almost creepy. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Mod Note: schmevil 2009-04-26 11:38 pm UTC (link)
	Preview images can be a maximum of 300x400. Please resize the image or remove it. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: Mod Note: arbre_rieur 2009-04-27 01:39 am UTC (link)
	It's 260x423, which is less area than 300x400. That doesn't still violate the rules, does it? (Reply to this) (Parent)

psychop_rex
2009-04-27 01:58 am UTC (link)

One thing you can definitely say about Alan Moore: he's always experimenting. Which is one of the things that makes him such a great writer - even when he does something that's already been done a million times, all the weird experiments he's done give him a fresh perspective, so he can tease something different out of it. (And, of course, when he's doing something that NO ONE has done before, he's thoroughly in his element.)

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	(Anonymous) 2009-04-27 08:28 am UTC (link)
	I'm hoping the protagonist literally drowns in symbolism. (Reply to this)