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Announcing the Official Heart of Empire CD-Rom! On this CD-Rom, he actually does it! He gives all the secrets away! He answers the age-old question: Where do you get your ideas from? In over 60,000 words of detailed and entertaining commentary, Bryan Talbot points out the inspirations, influences, references, symbolism and in-jokes underlying the whole graphic narrative. There's also annotations to the artwork, bawdy anecdotes, silly tirades and many mini-essays on related subjects as diverse as William Blake, English mythology, the sexual activities of Charles II, William Hogarth, Free Love, Catastrophe Theory, Magic Mushrooms, Pagan Festivals, The Golden Section, Orgone Energy, Subliminal Imagery, Famous Farters, Synchronicity and the Twenty-three Enigma. There is the whole of the Heart of Empire graphic novel in its pencilled, inked and coloured forms, plus a brand new piece of artwork, preparatory sketches and other illustrations showing where the inspiration for certain scenes were derived: e.g. the original Eighteenth Century Hogarth engraving that inspired the Bedlam sequence. A veritable treasure trove of entertaining and educational information! All this plus two interviews, biographies, a very user-friendly interface and a full index to all the annotations.