(with thanks to Pádraig Ó Méalóid): The most recent issue of Strange Attractor Journal contains, amongst much else, the text for Alan Moore’s unfinished John Dee opera, focusing on the life of the well known English mage, which he was originally meant to be developing alongside Damon Albarn and Gorillaz, before they went their seperate ways on this.
“I believe that, besides the complete unfinished text for the opera – if you see what I mean – there are also notes on staging and other aspects of the project,” Pádraig Ó Méalóid tells us.
“In some ways, the most fascinating of Alan’s works are the unfinished ones, as the potential they represent will always be just outside our reach,” feels Pádraig. “However, more information is coming about about some of these: for my own part, I was thrilled to be able to publish the pages from Big Numbers #3 online (here on Padraig’s LiveJournal), and Gary Spencer Millidge’s upcoming biography of Alan contains a copy of the legendary Big Numbers wall chart, so much that was once unknown will now be revealed.
“Alan also spoke to me recently about how Halo Jones would have finished up, and now we have this piece about his John Dee opera.
Who knows? The 1963 annual might be next. OK, maybe not…”
As well as its Alan Moore conetnt, the eagerly awaited fourth edition of the acclaimed anthology series, featuring nearly 20 new articles exploring the outer shores of culture, history and experience.
First appearing in 2004, Strange Attractor Journal has been described as “one of the most weirdly beautiful, beautifully weird magazines of the past hundred-odd years” (by the Independent on Sunday) and “what you get when poetic archaeologists of the imagination gather their finest jewels” (by Erik Davis).
• Strange Attractor Journal Four is edited by Mark Pilkington
320pp, A5 paperback, £14.99. ISBN 9780954805463
Available now from Strange Attractor Press, publishers of Medical London, Welcome to Mars and Austin Osman Spare.
• You can buy Strange Attractor Journal #4 via: http://strangeattractor.co.uk/books/strange-attractor-journal-four
• Read Big Numbers #3 on Padraig’s LiveJournal
The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.
He’s the writer of “Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies” for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs” with Dave Hailwood.
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