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Alan Moore's Cover To Jerusalem, Explained Further

Last night, we ran the cover for Alan Moore's new novel, Jerusalem. It's been a long journey, he first announced the project in an interview with me in 2005.

We had our own take, but UK publishers Knockabout get in touch to explain more about it.

Drawn by Mr. Moore, the cover parallels the stories of 12 different characters over a period of 6,000 years, from a cave-boy to a Roman emissary to a crippled nun, JERUSALEM opens in 4000BC in what is now Northampton.

'A-hind of hill, ways off to sun-set-down, is sky come like as fire, and walk I up in way of this, all hard of breath, where is grass colding on I's feet and wetting they,' writes Moore, as he sets in motion his magnum opus.

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, JERUSALEM is the tale of everything, told from a vanished gutter.

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