Just as the actual From Hell is a metafiction – telling lies about truths, as the creators might have put it – so here too we get several strands of narrative.

This volume is his illustrator Eddie Campbell's look at proceedings, and for a book that would appear to have no actual Moore input in it, he provides a welter of words for it. While the latter may appear to many to be a great, galumphing graphic novel loosely about Jack the Ripper, you ain't seen nothing yet. This is a vast work of enormous power that will take you twice as long to read as almost any three other graphic novels combined.Summary: Not just for a handful of avid fans, this look at the birth and building of a classic graphic novel is a fascinating insight into the art of turning words into pictures.Īlan Moore will always be synonymous with two major books – Watchmen and From Hell, his look at the Whitechapel Murders.

Gull do it? Why was the case never solved? And why are we still studying these events then studying the studies of those who have studied the events? That we know the who from just after the prologue makes the investigation all the more frustrating, infuriating and painful to follow, so it was never about the who - it's about the why. How did anyone have the arrogance to believe that they could ever film that? And speaking of Hollywood, how typical of them to turn this into a Whodunnit.

Gull's eyes that see more than is there, or the bleak, unsanitised and dark and stark London which he scratches indelibly on your mind. Gull has visions of the world as we know it, where his deeds are anything but forgotten.Įddie Campbell's intense visuals are inseparable from the experience, whether it's the look in Dr. Madness and ceremony and the architecture of time play large parts in this gruelling masterpiece, as the women struggle hard enough to survive in their own unforgiving environment, let alone when they're lured by grapes into the alien world of an upper class cab, and Dr. On the surface (Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's surface are most creators' core) it's the story of one sick bastard's execution of a royal cover up, fuelled by his own personal Masonic obsession with carving a male sigil across the heart of London by slaughtering the women of the street who happen to have strayed too close to a blue-blooded Victorian's philandering.

From hell alan moore eddie campbell