From hell alan moore eddie campbell5/29/2023 The people themselves – scrupulously researched as the exhaustive and occasionally exhausting annotations at the back of the book attest – are for the most part real, historical figures that Moore (and Campbell – credit must always be given to Campbell because – again as the annotations attest – you get the sense Campbell and Moore ferociously debated a great many aspects of the book) reproduces either using words they themselves spoke or informed by the person who Moore thinks they were. Jack, you say? Jack who? Why Jack the Ripper of course, From Hell being Moore and Campbell’s comprehensive deep dive into Ripperology.įrom the outset, the first thing that strikes you is Campbell’s art – scratchy and black and white (at least in the edition I read, although there is also a colour edition these days too), as if you are glimpsing history through an old can of cine film. So says Sir William Gull, the man that Alan Moore (and S Knight before him, upon whose now discredited book the frame of From Hell hangs) would have be Jack. “As befits great work, we’ll read it CAREFULLY and with RESPECT.”
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