Passend zur morgigen Verleihung des Roland Faelske-Preises 2018 ist kürzlich im Verlag McFarland die Monografie The British Comic Book Invasion von ComFor-Mitglied Jochen Ecke erschienen, bei der es sich ebenfalls um eine im Jahr 2014 mit diesem Preis ausgezeichnete Dissertationsschrift handelt. Die Dissertation wurde 2014 an der Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz unter dem Titel The British Invasion of American Comics: A Poetics eingereicht. Ecke beschäftigt sich mit dem transatlantischen Phänomen der „British Invasion“ des amerikanischen Comic-Marktes in den 1980er Jahren und dessen nachhaltigen Auswirkungen.
The British Comic Book Invasion: Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Grant Morrison and the Evolution of the American Style
Jochen Ecke
McFarland
281 Seiten
ISBN 978-1476674155 (Paperback)
~$39,95
Dezember 2018
Verlagstext:
„What makes a successful comics creator? How can storytelling stay exciting and innovative? How can genres be kept vital?
Writers and artists in the highly competitive U.S. comics mainstream have always had to explore these questions but they were especially pressing in the 1980s. As comics readers grew older they started calling for more sophisticated stories. They were also no longer just following the adventures of popular characters—writers and artists with distinctive styles were in demand. DC Comics and Marvel went looking for such mavericks and found them in the United Kingdom. Creators like Alan Moore (Watchmen, Saga of the Swamp Thing), Grant Morrison (The Invisibles, Flex Mentallo) and Garth Ennis (Preacher) migrated from the anarchical British comics industry to the U.S. mainstream and shook up the status quo yet came to rely on the genius of the American system.“