Titlebook: Alan Moore, Out from the Underground; Cartooning, Performa Maggie Gray Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 comic

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Introduction,ith other arts, it argues the formal performativity of Moore’s work is key to its radical politics. Bertolt Brecht’s ideas of epic theatre are introduced as a framework for understanding this political aesthetics and the intersections of cartooning, performance, and dissent.

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The Marks of the Arts Lab: Comics, Performance, and the Counterculture, transdisciplinary output in relation to visual poetry, psychedelic posters, science fiction, and radical theatre. In doing so it unpacks the relationship between comics and performance, and identifies the reflexive performativity at the heart of Moore’s aesthetics.

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The Play of the Press: Cartooning, Materiality, and the Underground in Print, graphic design, and animation, this chapter analyses how Moore’s newspaper strips not only engaged with urgent political issues, but were activist in form, using Brechtian methods to expose the contingency of reality and socialise the cultural apparatus.

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