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Kimota! The Miracleman Companion
by George Khoury (Author), Alan Moore (Author), Neil Gaiman (Author)
OUT OF PRINT. HARD TO FIND COLLECTOR'S ITEM.
THE HISTORY OF MARVELMAN!!!
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Alan Moore’s Miracleman predated Watchmen and Dark Knight as the first of the grim, ultra-realistic strips that changed super-hero comics forever. But whatever happened to Miracleman? For the first time, this trade paperback tells all the behind-the-scenes secrets, from the character’s start as the British strip Marvelman, to the legal and creative hurdles during its 24-issue run at Eclipse Comics, and why you never saw the final Neil Gaiman-scripted issue! Sporting a Mark Buckingham cover and an introduction and back cover by Alex Ross, this book features in-depth interviews with Alan Moore, John Totleben, Neil Gaiman, Mark Buckingham, Barry Windsor-Smith, Beau Smith, Cat Yronwode, Rick Veitch, and others!
Plus there’s an amazing assortment of unpublished art, uninked pencils, sketches, and concept drawings (including unseen art from the never-published issue #25) by Totleben, Windsor-Smith, Buckingham, Mike Deodato, Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, and more! Special Bonus: a never-published 8-page Moore/Totleben story, "Lux Brevis", and an unused Moore script!
* Paperback: 148 pages
* Publisher: TwoMorrows Publishing (September 1, 2001)
* ISBN-10: 189390511X
* ISBN-13: 978-1893905115
This superb book could also be titled "Everything you wanted to know about Miracleman, but were afraid to ask".
It's not just the definitive story of Marvelman/Miracleman through the years, it's a discussion on how comics operated in the late-eighties/early-nineties, it's a treatise on one character inspiring a dozen creators, it's the inside scoop on how Alan Moore's mind works, and it's a lecture on the complexity of copyright laws, especially when you look at them from an international perspective.
You get: an introduction by Alex Ross; an overview of Miracleman's publication history; interviews with Mick Anglo (creator of Marvelman), Alan Moore, Dez Skinn, Garry Leach, Alan Davis, Chuck Austen, Rick Veitch, John Totleben, cat yronwode, Neil Gaiman, Mark Buckingham, Barry Windsor-Smith, and Beau Smith; Moore's original series proposal; a timeline for the "Quality Universe"; colour reproductions of every cover; an index to all Miracleman stories; Moore's script for the first episode plus reproductions of the pages from that episode; a previously unpublished Moore and Totleben eight page story; Totleben's sketchbook pages; and five more pages from the unpublished #25