Published
by The Disinformation Co. with Mad
Yak Press
Patrick
Neighly and Kereth Cowe-Spigai WRITERS
Frank Quitely COVER ART
Anne Marie Horne DESIGN
288 pages, $19.95
Diamond order code FEB032367
ISBN 0-9713942-2-9
A complete guide to every issue of The Invisibles,
featuring exclusive interviews with Grant Morrison and major behind-the-scenes
players including Philip Bond, Phil Jimenez, Stuart Moore, Sean Philips,
Warren Pleece, Frank Quitely, Cameron Stewart, Jill Thompson, Chris
Weston and Steve Yeowell. Plus comprehensive annotations, critical analyses,
previously unpublished artwork and more!
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING
“Anarchy For The Masses dares to
romp with the living, knob-encrusted monster that is the six-year-long
Invisibles experiment. If, as intended, the series is a stained paper
section through the body of some vast, soft intricate entity made of
time, then Anarchy is an historic first
probe, a plucky Voyager bringing back and making sense of the many dripping,
weird-angled splinters and fully authorized facets found deep in the
hide and guts of my captive mega-terrestrial.”
Grant Morrison
"In short,
it’s everything you need to run your own Invisibles role-playing
game with the exception of a rules system (but should an Invisibles
game have a rules system? Discuss) and it serves as a crash course in
disinformation and a ‘bluffers guide to esoterica’. Books
like this are very useful to prove to friends that those comics you
read actually have as much depth as Shakespeare or Buffy. Go
Buy."
Comics International
"The wealth
of interviews with the writer, artists and editors alongside the close
reading of the actual text give a sense of the production process being
almost as much of a tale as The Invisibles itself ... Neighly
and Cowe-Spigai’s diligent research makes The Invisibles
a far more interesting read."
Stuart Carter, The Alien Online
“Neighly and
Cowe-Spigai have performed an impressive feat in taking a vast, recursive
and sometimes deliberately baffling work and presenting it in a clear
and linear way. And Morrison himself has praised them for grasping the
heart of the book, which should be all the endorsement you need."
Chris Ekman, Ninth Art
"Anarchy
for the Masses is a well written, insightful and useful book
for anybody wanting to take a deeper look at what will surely be remembered
as one of the most important comics ever written."
Katherine
Keller, Sequential Tart
“...a stunning
achievement. Just fabulous, both a fitting exegesis and tribute to the
series. If you're a Morrison fan, if you want to see the layers of meaning
and interpretation a comic book is capable of, or if you want to read
a really good critique of a comics series, don't miss it."
Steven Grant, Permanent Damage
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