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Here is a draft of the press release:
US Pub Date: April 2003
UK Pub Date: February 2003
Price: $19.95 /£14.99
A Trade Paperback Original from The Disinformation Company
Contact: Ina Howard ina@disinfo.com + 1-212-691-1605
ANARCHY FOR THE MASSES
THE DISINFORMATION GUIDE TO THE INVISIBLES
By Patrick Neighly & Kereth Cowe-Spigai
Revised and Updated with New Original Art and Interviews for this Disinformation Edition
“ANARCHY FOR THE MASSES is a stunning achievement. Just fabulous, both a fitting exegesis and tribute to the series.”
–Steven Grant, Whisper
“Grant Morrison is this generation’s William Burroughs. Somewhere the Wild Boys are smiling.”
–Richard Metzger, Disinformation
“ANARCHY FOR THE MASSES dares to romp with the living, knob-encrusted monster that is the six-year-long INVISIBLES experiment. If, as intended, the series is a stained paper section through the body of some vast, soft intricate entity made of time, then ANARCHY is an historic first probe, a plucky Voyager bringing back and making sense of the many dripping, weird-angled splinters and fully authorized facets found deep in the hide and guts of my captive mega-terrestrial.”
–Grant Morrison
Grant Morrison’s prophetic, epoch-making graphic novel The Invisibles made as important a contribution to the counterculture of the 1990s and 2000s as Naked Lunch and On the Road did for the 1950s and 60s. Like those works, The Invisibles had a dedicated cult following and is only now beginning to be recognized in the mainstream.
Just as The Invisibles is a comprehensive guide to life in the 21st century, Patrick Neighly and Kereth Cowe-Spigai’s ANARCHY FOR THE MASSES is a comprehensive guide to The Invisibles (similar to The Sandman Companion by Hy Bender): it includes not only full annotation to every issue, and critical analyses, but also exclusive, extensive interviews with:
Series creator and writer Grant Morrison
Artists Philip Bond, Phil Jiminez, Sean Phillips, Warren Pleece, Frank Quitely, Cameron Stewart, Jill Thompson, Chris Weston, and Steve Yeowell: in short, virtually all of the artists who molded Morrison’s scripts into the breathtaking reality of The Invisibles
Series editor Stuart Moore
Freshly updated in a new Disinformation® edition just in time for the release of the final collection of The Invisibles in collected trade paperback format, ANARCHY FOR THE MASSES includes extensive amounts of new material, including:
A brand new cover by mega-popular comic book artist Frank Quietly (The Invisibles, New X-Men, Flex Mentallo, The Authority).
New interior illustrations by series artists Chris Weston (The Invisibles, Lucifer, The Filth) and Steve Yeowell (The Invisibles, Sebastian O, Zenith).
Designed in traditional graphic novel format, the book will fit perfectly on a shelf with the collected editions of The Invisibles.
An extremely forward-leaning series about conspiracy, magic, anarchy, world travel, the history of dissent, consciousness, fringe science, aliens, the quest for the Holy Grail, the future, pop culture, and the fifth dimension; The Invisibles is a landmark in the literature not only of comics but also of social activism, consciousness theory, and the mechanics of changing the world for the better. It is also one of the most exhilarating straight-out adventure stories to come out of the ironic wasteland of the late 1990s.
The Invisibles is a direct dialogue with, and would appeal to fans of, The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson, The Matrix, the late novels of Philip K. Dick, Aleister Crowley, Ecstasy Club by Douglas Rushkoff, the speculative works of William S. Burroughs and H.P. Lovecraft, the cult British TV show The Prisoner, the Jerry Cornelius stories of Michael Moorcock, The Beatles, and the world as we know it.
Creator Biographies
Award-winning journalist Patrick Neighly has reported on telecommunications from four continents. He contributed work to ANARCHY FOR THE MASSES from Bangkok, Glasgow and Los Angeles.
Kereth Cowe-Spigai resides in Orlando, Florida in a neighborhood shared by many humans and reptiles. She is currently pursuing a graduate degree and is the managing editor of the award-winning magazine, the Florida Review.
For the last ten years Grant Morrison has been highly-regarded as one of the most original and inventive writers in the comics medium. His revisionist Batman ‘graphic novel’ ARKHAM ASYLUM was the highest-grossing hardback comic book ever, selling over 200,000 copies in its first three months of release and winning most of the industry’s major awards. ST.SWITHIN'S DAY - a story about a young man from the North attempting to assassinate Margaret Thatcher - had questions raised in the British House of Commons, as did THE INVISIBLES, Morrison's highly-influential six-year long series about a group of anarchist terrorists. Credits also include JLA, which he took from 20,000 sales to 125,000, making it DC Comics biggest selling monthly title. In July 1997, he was the first comics writer to be included as one of “Entertainment Weekly’s” top 100 creative people in America. Current projects include X-MEN for Marvel Comics and several new and original comics series, including THE FILTH.
Title: “Anarchy For The Masses: The Disinformation Guide To The Invisibles”
Authors: Patrick Neighly & Kereth Cowe-Spigai
ISBN: 0-9713942-2-9
SRLP: US$19.95/£14.99
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