Similar Moorean Works
In additional to Steve Moore's lengthy association with Bob Rickard's UK publication Fortean Times, Alan Moore is no stranger to the world of magic. A self-proclaimed practicising magician (and self-professed worshipper of Roman glove puppet god Glycon), Moore's ouvre includes several diversions into the realms of the magickal, including his America's Best Comics series Promethea, both a general meditation on magic in comics form and a specific guide to the 22 Major Arcana Tarot cards (issue #12), the Sephiroth (issue #14) and the entire Hermetic Qabalah (issues #13-25). Promethea featured appearances from such individuals as Dr. John Dee, Aleister Crowley, Austin Osman Spare and Jack Parsons, all of whom are likely to be covered in the Bumper Book of Magic.
Indeed, it has been suggested that much of A. Moore's recent output has to a greater or lesser extent been designed as magical rituals:
| “ | All of Moore's recent comics and other texts that are intended to function as magical "workings" or rituals, perform the work of making something metaphysically real though a work of imagination and communication, as with the culminatory "there because we say She is" that births the Angel Highbury at the end of his psychogeographic spoken-word piece, The Highbury Working. | ” |
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