Jeffrey Lewis ‘Revelations in the Wink of an Eye’

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Revelations in the Wink of an Eye: My Insane Musings on Watchmen, from Conspiracies to Stupidities by Jeffrey Lewis

140 pages, full color

The long-awaited complete and completely mind-blowing Jeffrey Lewis analysis of Watchmen is finally here, in a fully revised 2024 edition! 

Watchmen is one of the most critically-acclaimed graphic novels of all time (possibly surpassed only by Maus), in addition to being one of the best-selling. The twelve-issue series by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons, originally published in 1986-1987, famously went on to become the only comic book included on Time magazine’s list of the 100 greatest novels since 1923. Despite such levels of popular and critical success, and a number of published biographies and assessments of its author, up till now nobody has published a fully comprehensive analysis of Watchmen itself. Performer/writer/artist Jeffrey Lewis has been writing and lecturing on Watchmen since 1997, giving popular talks on the subject in America, Europe, England and Australia; now he collects this work into one digestible, enlightening and entertaining volume, including all the necessary illustrative quotes of images from the source material.

Jeffrey Lewis has written for History, the New York Times, the Guardian (UK) and other notable institutions (and was awarded a Webby for Best Writing on the Internet in 2010), in addition to doing writing/illustration/comic book work for projects published by Verso, Hill and Wang, For Beginners and others. Featured a number of times on NPR, Jeffrey has released many albums of his own songs on record labels like Rough Trade Records, Moshi Moshi and Don Giovanni Records. He tours the world with his band Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage, as well as writing, drawing and publishing his own comic books, including the recent series Statics.

Praise for the Jeffrey Lewis Watchmen Lecture

“The [Watchmen] movie… does not even compare to the experience I had at [Jeffrey Lewis’s] lecture… Warner Bros should have given [Lewis] a hundred million dollars instead. Where the movie didn’t add a single thing to my experience of Watchmen, [the lecture] blew my mind and captured my attention and imagination.” —Jason Leivian, Floating World USA

“I thought I knew Watchmen inside out. Jeffrey… is in a different league… He had astonishingly detailed insights into the complex symbolism of the book, many of which had never occurred to me… If you get a chance to see him talk about Watchmen again, I’d urge you to go.” —Word Magazine UK

Thank you to Jeffrey for making this all happen.

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