Performing form and playing in print: comics in Oxford‘s other paper

Margaret Gray

Performing form and playing in print: comics in Oxford‘s other paper

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Abstract

One of Alan Moore‘s earliest comics, 'St Pancras Panda‘ (1978-9), appeared in Oxford community paper the Backstreet Bugle. Renowned as a scriptwriter, Moore started off as a cartoonist, and with this strip consolidated not only the acute social satire and genre iconoclasm that would characterise his writing, but a ludic and performative graphic style, refracting a countercultural aesthetics that bridged the underground and alternative press. This paper will explore the politics of Moore‘s playful, self-reflexive cartooning by attending to the relationship between the strip and the paper it was printed in, in terms of outlook, visual design and material production.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 5 Feb 2019
Event	Oxford Comics Network - Oxford, U.K. Duration: 5 Feb 2019 → 5 Feb 2019

Seminar

Seminar	Oxford Comics Network
Period	5/02/19 → 5/02/19

Bibliographical note

Organising Body: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Keywords

Art and design

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Performing form and playing in print: comics in Oxford‘s other paper

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