Confabulation: An Anecdotal Autobiography By Dave Gibbons

by Dave Gibbons
Confabulation: An Anecdotal Autobiography By Dave Gibbons
  • ISBN-13: 9781506729053
  • Author(s): Dave Gibbons
  • Subject: The arts: general issues
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Group
  • Imprint: Dark Horse
  • Publication Date: 14-03-2023
  • Format: h/b

Availability: In stock

£47.99
From his earliest years copying Superman and Batman comics as a kid, to co-creating the bestselling graphic novel of all-time, Watchmen (all DC Comics), and beyond. Presented alphabetically, with informally written anecdotes that can be read from cover-to-cover or simply dipped into, Gibbons reveals unseen comicspitches, life as the first Comics Laureate, and going from being a fanzine artist to infiltrating DC Comics in the 1970s. The book covers everything from working on Doctor Who and meeting Tom Baker to being inducted into the Eisner Hall of Fame. Gibbons also discusses, for the first time anywhere, the reasons why he and fellow Watchmen co-creator Alan Moore no longer speak. Packed with over 300 iconic, rarely seen, and unpublished art pieces and photographs, CONFABULATION: AN ANECDOTAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY not only entertains, but peels back the layers of a fascinating career in comics.
About the book

From his earliest years copying Superman and Batman comics as a kid, to co-creating the bestselling graphic novel of all-time, Watchmen (all DC Comics), and beyond. Presented alphabetically, with informally written anecdotes that can be read from cover-to-cover or simply dipped into, Gibbons reveals unseen comicspitches, life as the first Comics Laureate, and going from being a fanzine artist to infiltrating DC Comics in the 1970s. The book covers everything from working on Doctor Who and meeting Tom Baker to being inducted into the Eisner Hall of Fame. Gibbons also discusses, for the first time anywhere, the reasons why he and fellow Watchmen co-creator Alan Moore no longer speak. Packed with over 300 iconic, rarely seen, and unpublished art pieces and photographs, CONFABULATION: AN ANECDOTAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY not only entertains, but peels back the layers of a fascinating career in comics.

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