{"id":32,"date":"2010-07-22T07:23:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T04:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2010-07-22T07:23:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T04:23:27","slug":"alan-moores-neonomicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/07\/22\/alan-moores-neonomicon\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Moore\u2019s\u00a0\u201cNeonomicon\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

The great bard of Northampton, England has the first part of a new Lovecraftian graphic novel out now, as a $1.99 preview sampler titled Neonomicon: The Hornbook<\/em><\/a>\"\" (a “hornbook” is an old disused word for a school writing slate). The full graphic novel version of Neonomicon<\/em> is apparently set for later in 2010, as a leather-bound limited edition of 3,000 copies<\/a>\"\"<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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The horror in Neonomicon<\/em> is unfortunately said to be of the “gore” variety, thus breaking with Lovecraft’s hints and elisions to graphically show intricate nastiness — perhaps Moore is aiming at something in the manner of Lord Horror<\/em>, and in doing so is seeking to challenge petty British censorship in the same way as he did with Lost Girls<\/em>. As for me, I’ll be waiting until the whole series is published before considering reading it. I dislike the modern tendency of comics publishing to dribble out stories in pamphlet parts, to scrape more money from the fans.<\/p>\n

Bleeding Cool website has an interview<\/a> with the artist Jacen Burrows, as does the Comics Bulletin<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Moore has of course tackled Lovecraft once before, also with Jacen Burrows as the artist, in the short comic The Courtyard<\/em><\/a>\"\". This was an adaptation of his short contribution to the anthology The Starry Wisdom: A Tribute To H. P. Lovecraft<\/em> (2003), and it was not very well received by his fans — I gather that it was oversold as a “new graphic novel”, and so the fans were looking for a new Moore blockbuster. What they got was only a slight 74 page comic — which is why you can currently find it very cheap on Amazon. The Neonomicon<\/em> apparently serves as a sequel to The Courtyard<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The great bard of Northampton, England has the first part of a new Lovecraftian graphic novel out now, as a …<\/p>\n

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