![]() ![]() The author of one of the first reviews of the graphic novel From Hell, written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Eddie Campbell, judges that it will endure ![]() The latest example of this tendency occurred in late July 2015, when, as The Guardian reports, “a new museum originally billed as a celebration of East London women and the suffragettes branded a ‘sick joke,’ by local residents as it opened as a venue dedicated to the crimes of Jack the Ripper.” One re-visioning of this bloody mark on London’s history can be argued to stand apart from the body of texts, images, and commemorations surrounding the historical murders committed in the East End. ![]() The reporting, fictionalization, and mythologization of the crimes of “Jack” and the deaths of his female victims have continued unabated, and remain problematic as more often than not, these adaptations echo the same sensationalism and misogyny that characterized the crimes they commemorate. 1 The series of murders committed in the fall of 1888 in Whitechapel by the so-called “Ripper,” immediately seized upon the public’s imagination in England and abroad. ![]()
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