Thursday 23 October 2008

Watching The Watchmen

Went to the launch of Dave Gibbons' glorious new tome Watching The Watchmen (Titan Books) last night. A lavishly illustrated examination of the creative process behind his and Alan Moore's seminal comic, it's filled with preparatory sketches, thumbnails and much, much more, beautifully designed by Chip Kidd and Mike Essl, making it the perfect Xmas gift for any Watchmen fan and helping the wait for Zack Synder's movie that little more tolerable. Given that one of my biggest fanboy moments was standing in Gibbons' front room, holding Moore's original script for Watchmen issue one, you can probably tell I'm quite excited by this.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

As a huge WATCHMEN fan from way back I am eagerly anticipating this book. I love the "extras" included in the deluxe hardcover edition of WATCHMEN that came out awhile ago.

Mark Salisbury said...

They you're going to love this.

Gerard said...

Dead.

Keen.