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About The Invisibles

By The Editor
September 16, 2009 - 23:42

Our Sentence is Up:  Seeing Grant Morrison's The Invisibles, a non-fiction look at the landmark series, is in this month's Previews catalog (order code SEP091084).  The book, authored by Patrick Meaney, is published by Sequart Research & Literacy Organization.

Our Sentence is Up offers an accessible look at Grant Morrison's complicated and ambitious comics masterpiece, paying attention to its themes, philosophy, and how it changes with each reading.

The Invisibles has been hailed as a seminal comic, called the key to Morrison's overall body of work, and seen as the inspiration for The Matrix and its successors.  But it's also frequently written off as incomprehensible or just too out there.

Written in a conversational, personal style, Our Sentence is Up opens up The Invisibles through an in-depth, issue-by-issue analysis of the series, making sense of its complex ideas, fractured chronology, and delirious blend of fiction and reality.  The book also explores the real-world relevance of the comic, particularly how its fictional conspiracy theories became reality in the 2000s.

The book also features a wide-ranging interview with Grant Morrison, covering how his formative childhood experiences found their way into The Invisibles and how his life and the comic became intertwined in the '90s.  Morrison also explores the series in retrospect, how it holds up to the War on Terror and the Obama presidency, and what he currently thinks will happen in 2012.

The book sports an afterword by Morrison expert Timothy Callahan (CBR), author of Sequart's Grant Morrison:  The Early Years.  The book also sports an original cover by award-winning artist Kevin Colden (Fishtown, I Rule the Night).

Our Sentence is Up (softcover, 6"x9", 372 pages, B&W, $26.95 MSRP) is available exclusively through comic book stores.  See the books section of the September 2009 Previews catalog (bottom of page 315), where the book is a spotlighted item.  Please be sure to ask your store to order a copy (order code SEP091084), as you cannot be assured your store will order any copies.
 
About the Publisher:  Sequart Research & Literacy Organization is a non-profit devoted to the study and promotion of comic books as a legitimate art.  It publishes a line of books aimed at making comics scholarship accessible.  For more information and to check out the revamped website, click here.

Legal Disclaimer:  the Invisibles and related characters are © and TM Grant Morrison.  This book is not endorsed by DC Comics or Vertigo.

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