Providence: Lovecraft, Sexual Violence, And The Body Of The Other
- ASU Author/Contributor (non-ASU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Ph.D.. Craig Fischer, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- Appalachian State University (ASU )
- Web Site: https://library.appstate.edu/
Abstract: The subject of this essay is the first six issues of Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows’ Providence, but let me begin with an apology. In Comics Journal #278 (October 2006), I wrote a negative review of Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s Lost Girls, arguing that Moore’s rigidly schematic plot made the book a chore to read, despite the beauty of Gebbie’s art. I still think Lost Girls is minor Moore, but I went too far in the final paragraph of my review. In response to Moore’s claims that he was retiring from comics (most fully expressed in an interview in Comic Book Artist #25 [April 2003]), I wrote that he was “leaving comics none too soon and many years too late” (138). I was disappointed with much of the America’s Best Comics line (though for me Promethea was major Moore), but I regret those words. They show ingratitude to a writer who entertained me for decades while inspiring other creators to produce better comics.
Providence: Lovecraft, Sexual Violence, And The Body Of The Other
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- Publication
- Fischer, C. (2016). “Providence: Lovecraft, Sexual Violence, And The Body Of The Other.” The Comics Journal, February 3, 2016. Version of record available at: http://www.tcj.com/providence-lovecraft-sexual-violence-and-the-body-of-the-other/
- Language: English
- Date: 2016
- Keywords
- H.P. Lovecraft, Alan Moore, Comics, Sexual violence