Books published by publisher Knockabout Comics

"Epic in scope and phantasmagoric to its briny core…The prose sparkles at every turn…" –– The Washington PostTen years in the making, comes a literary work like no other, from the legendary author of Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell.In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England’s Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap tower blocks. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district’s narrative among its saints, kings, prostitutes and derelicts a different kind of human time is happening, a soiled simultaneity that does not differentiate between the petrol-coloured puddles and the fractured dreams of those who navigate them. Fiends last mentioned in the Book of Tobit wait in urine-scented stairwells, the delinquent spectres of unlucky children undermine a century with tunnels, and in upstairs parlours labourers with golden blood reduce fate to a snooker tournament.Disappeared lanes yield their own voices, built from lost words and forgotten dialect, to speak their broken legends and recount their startling genealogies, family histories of shame and madness and the marvellous. There is a conversation in the thunderstruck dome of St. Paul’s cathedral, childbirth on the cobblestones of Lambeth Walk, an estranged couple sitting all night on the cold steps of a Gothic church-front, and an infant choking on a cough drop for eleven chapters. An art exhibition is in preparation, and above the world a naked old man and a beautiful dead baby race along the Attics of the Breath towards the heat death of the universe.An opulent mythology for those without a pot to piss in, through the labyrinthine streets and pages of Jerusalem tread ghosts that sing of wealth and poverty; of Africa, and hymns, and our threadbare millennium. They discuss English as a visionary language from John Bunyan to James Joyce, hold forth on the illusion of mortality post-Einstein, and insist upon the meanest slum as Blake’s eternal holy city. Fierce in its imagining and stupefying in its scope, Alan Moore’s epic novel, Jerusalem, is the tale of Everything, told from a vanished gutter. (Kindle Standard Second Edition)

13 short, rambunctious tales about The Weasel Patrol, an unlikely and all-weaselly force of intergalactic troopers. These stories, fun enough for kids and far funnier than funny enough for adults, originally appearing in anthologies, where they built a loyal fan base. The first time in book form, it contains such tales as "The Intergalactic Crimefighters Convention", "Big Bob's Eat & Fill", and "Roboweasel".

Before Cliff Wirth (1927–2018, father of seven Catholic kids himself) created the comic strips "Home Team" and "Li'l Sports," well before he landed the cartooning job at the Chicago Sun-Times that brought him his greatest fame, he created this book of cartoons about the youngest, freshest Catholics, filled with the playing, praying, and pageants that made up their lives. Out of print for more than half a century, now it's back as part of the Daily Nun project, which is reprinting dozens of Catholic cartoon books from the mid-20th century.

Before Cliff Wirth (1927–2018, father of seven Catholic kids himself) created the comic strips "Home Team" and "Li'l Sports," well before he landed the cartooning job at the Chicago Sun-Times that brought him his greatest fame, he created this book of cartoons about the youngest, freshest Catholics, filled with the playing, praying, and pageants that made up their lives. Out of print for more than half a century, now it's back as part of the Daily Nun project.