ABSTRACT
This chapter considers some of what might be called Alan Moore major works, with reference to a selection of other pieces as well. The breadth of Moore's influence makes his works extremely promising as subjects for analysis because they allow people to consider a wide range of elements, from the deployment of words and images upon the page to the publication format and cultural contexts of production and consumption in which those works sit. The chapter emphasises that materiality matters, and that understanding materiality is about more than a conceptual notion of format. The comics of Alan Moore are a particularly useful corpus to examine through multisensory analysis because they clearly encapsulate what could be described as the two types of attention to materiality. If the aim of the mechanical project is to understand how comics work, then it must surely address the medium's multisensory qualities as well.
