From hell
being a melodrama in sixteen parts
by Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell · first published 1991
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FROM HELL is the story of Jack the Ripper, perhaps the most infamous man in the annals of murder. Detailing the events leading up to the Whitechapel killings and the cover-up that followed, FROM HELL is a meditation on the mind of a madman whose savagery and violence gave birth to the 20th century. The serialized story, presented in its entirety in this volume, has garnered widespread attention from critics and scholars. Often regarded as one of the most significant graphic novels ever published, FROM HELL combines meticulous research with educated speculation, resulting in a masterpiece of hi
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…twice: - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig - The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien - The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien - Watchmen by Alan Moore - From Hell by Alan Moore - V for Vendetta by Alan Moore - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series by Alan Moore - Dune by Frank Herbert - Immortality by Milan Kundera - first 3 books in the The Dark Tower…
on “Ask HN: What is your favorite fiction book?” ↗Not who you were asking, but I'm a big Moore fan as well: * From Hell (Some might be put off by the original comic's black and white art, but there was a recent release that colourised them by the original illustrator) * Providence * Jerusalem * V for Vendetta
on “Alan Moore: Every aspiring writer should read terrible books (2022) [video]” ↗…portion of the Eco book Foucault's Pendulum here - it's quite relevant to how we go trying to find meaning in things. If you haven't definitely a novel worth a read. I'm surprised no one has mentioned From Hell here, which plays with the concept of drawing symbols using lines between landmarks. Alan Moore got a lot of his ideas for that from Iain Sinclair, whose books are well worth a read as well. Specifically,…
on “Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?” ↗I first learned about this while researching references in From Hell by Alan Moore. Hinton wrote an article called "What is the Fourth Dimension?" which plays a part in the story.
on “Inside the weird and delightful origins of the jungle gym, which just turned 100” ↗Well this is Alan Moore, the author of such comics as From Hell and Watchmen, so I don't think you can fairly accuse him of looking down on comics as being for kids. And why do you think he should care about musicals more than his own medium of choice?
on “Alan Moore on superhero culture” ↗…a block universe I first encountered this theory and the related "eternalism" philosophy via Alan Moore [1] (Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Ballad of Halo Jones, Swamp Thing, Batman: The Killing Joke, From Hell, etc.). Watchmen and its non-Moore-affiliated sequel have a lot of riffs on time and determinism. Q: Jerusalem deals with the idea of eternalism: everything that has happened is happening right now and…
on “On the Nature of Time” ↗