Even as Alan Moore was writing some of his most well-known series in England and America, he did a little comic strip in his local newspaper in Northampton. The strip, Maxwell the Magic Cat, ran for seven years until Moore grew upset at their coverage of homosexual issues.
A little publisher called Acme reprinted the strips in four volumes. Those volumes are long since out of print and really expensive on the secondary market. So I made my own book, collecting all the strips and the extras from the Acme books:
In 2016, the newspaper was going out of business. So they turned over the last issue to the local Arts Lab, run by Alan Moore. Moore returned with an editorial and a final Maxwell strip. So I just added the editorial and strip to my book:
So, now it is truly the complete Maxwell the Magic Cat!
Seems that we both might be like completists. Or, my goal for an author or a few as in Moore is to own one in affordable format for each or any given title.
ReplyDeleteSince almost 1999 I was on the hunt for Moore book, like the GRAFFITI edition and other books like the hardback BROUGHT TO LIGHT plus those amusing MAGIC CAT collections.
Luck would have it I have owned the ACME set (I finally got the Volume 4 - the last one for a few dollars for the set) but your book is great. That looks tops. Make us jealous, again!
Ajeno
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SWB -- 2022
Oh yeah, I definitely have the completist gene. My struggle was tracking down Miracleman back in the day... those were expensive.
DeleteAnyway, I'm glad this is done. Now to move on to binding more stuff! lol
Have you seen this
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Oh my goodness. I would pay you good money (though not as much as those ACME secondhand collections go for) if you take commissions to make more of these. Please let me know if you're interested!!!!! :D
ReplyDeleteThanks for the offer! I don't tend to do commissions, as I don't think my work is that good. But I can help you with files and working with a custom bindery, if you want?
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