By Greg Carpenter

Moore. Gaiman. Morrison.

They got here from Northampton, West Sussex, and Glasgow, or even notwithstanding they spoke with various dialects, they gave American comics a brand new voice — one loud and transparent sufficient to talk to the Postmodern global. Like a triple-helix strand of a few complex kind of DNA, their careers have remained irrevocably intertwined. They move jointly, like Diz, chicken, and Monk… or like Kerouac, Burroughs, and Ginsberg… or just like the Beatles, the Stones, and the Who.

Taken separately, their expert histories supply an incomplete photo of the British Invasion, yet jointly they redefined the concept that of what it capability to be a comic author. jointly, their tale turns into the tale of mainstream comics within the sleek era.

It’s the tale you’re approximately to read.

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