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Albion is a six-issue comic book limited series plotted by Alan Moore, written by his daughter Leah Moore and her husband John Reppion, with covers by Dave Gibbons and art by Shane Oakley and George Freeman.
Leah Moore (born 4 February 1978) is a British comic book writer and columnist. The daughter of comics writer Alan Moore, she frequently collaborates with her husband, writer John Reppion, as Moore & Reppion. She is a Bachelor of Arts in Classics and English Literature, having graduated from Manchester University in 2001.
Doctor Dodds takes his daughters Alice and Dinah – along with crewmembers Steve Greg and Tim Stone – on a rocket ride to strange new worlds. Text story; based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. [2] Also in Princess Giftbook for Girls 1967 (illustrated by Ferguson Dewar).
Visions of the Daughters of Albion is a 1793 poem by William Blake, produced as a book with his own illustrations. It is a short and early example of his prophetic books, and a sequel of sorts to The Book of Thel. Frontispiece to William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793), which contains Blake's critique of Abrahamic values of ...
The Book of Thel (c. 1789) America a Prophecy (1793) Europe a Prophecy (1794) Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) The Book of Urizen (1794) The Book of Ahania (1795) The Book of Los (1795) The Song of Los (1795) Vala, or The Four Zoas (begun 1797, unfinished; abandoned c. 1804) Milton: A Poem in Two Books (1804–1810)
The book also has been criticised for omitting poets who did not share Horovitz's enthusiasms for Blake and/or performance. Only five of Albion's 63 children are daughters. [4] Omissions have also been noted, such as the Liverpool poets. [5] Missing are major figures, for example J. H. Prynne and Veronica Forrest-Thomson.
The Sons of Albion feature in the poem Jerusalem. They are 12, and are named as Hand, Hyle, Coban, Guantok, Peachey, Brereton, Slayd, Hutton, Scofield, Kox, Kotope, Bowen. These names are mostly drawn from figures from Blake's 1803 sedition trial. [3] The Daughters of Albion feature in Visions of the Daughters of Albion, and other prophetic books.
By the end of World War II, story papers were phasing out in favor of comic books and television. The first girls' comics, Amalgamated Press' School Friend and Hulton Press' Girl, appeared in the early 1950s, with School Friend selling in excess of one million copies per week. [4] (The School Friend comic was in fact the descendant of the ...