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  • Top Shelf Releasing The From Hell Companion

    From their latest news letter:

    THE FROM HELL COMPANION
    by Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell
    -- Deluxe softcover with French flaps, 7.5" x 10.5"
    -- 288 pages (32 full-color pages)
    -- ISBN 978-1-60309-303-3
    -- $29.95 (US)
    -- Audience: Mature readers (18+)
    -- Shipping in May 2013

    "A man-behind-the-curtain look at a seminal graphic novel... an indispensable reference." -- Kirkus Reviews

    FROM HELL occupies a monumental place in the history of the graphic novel: a Victorian masterpiece of murder and madness which has won numerous awards, spawned a major Hollywood film, and remained a favorite of readers around the world for over two decades.

    Now, Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout Comics present THE FROM HELL COMPANION, an astonishing selection of Alan Moore's original scripts and sketches for the landmark graphic novel, with copious annotations, commentary, and illustrations by Eddie Campbell. Here for the first time are a set of pages, including some of Moore's greatest writing, which have never been seen by anyone except his collaborator. Joining them are Campbell's first-hand accounts of the project's decade-long development, complete with photos, anecdotes, disagreements, and wry confessions. Arranged in narrative order, these perspectives form a fascinating mosaic, an opportunity to read FROM HELL with fresh eyes, and a tour inside the minds of two giants of their field.


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    From Previews:

    "Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
    “Some very fine writing is buried in these scripts, and nobody has ever read it but me.”

    For the ten years between 1988 and 1998, artist Eddie Campbell lived with Alan Moore's scripts for the masterpiece From Hell. Now those scripts are available to readers for the first time, as Top Shelf collects the materials behind this masterful work in a hefty, 288-page softcover.

    Filled with Campbell's detailed reminisces and notations, The From Hell Companion offers a window onto the fascinating collaborative process by which prose script becomes graphic storytelling. Campbell explores Moore's rich imagery as it was adapted to the black and white page. He also provides a wealth of history with reference photos, variant interior sketches, after-the-fact redraws, and more than a few interesting anecdotes and snapshots from years of work on the book. The From Hell Companion takes reader behind the scenes of one of the most-read graphic novels of all time.

    ~ Kate Henning

    Item Code: MAR131301
    In Stores: 05/29/13"
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