Alan Moore Archives

Avatar Press' SDCC '15 Exclusives: Mercury Heat #1, Providence #2, Uber #25, Crossed #75
We're getting the first release of info on what Avatar Press are bringing to San Diego Comic-Con next month as their exclusives, and it's four different titles each with their own specific appeal. Mercury Heat #1 SDCC: limited to 350 copies ($9.99)  For those who have been waiting impatiently for Kieron Gillen and Omar Francia's newest created[...]
Alan Moore's Crossed +100 #5 Reveals The Truth Of The Infection
New in shops this week from Avatar Press is Crossed +100 #5 as the amazing Alan Moore continue's making his mark on the Crossed Universe Also, Kieron Gillen's Uber gets a fourth trade collecting issues 18-22. Crossed +100 #5 Future Taylor discovers the shocking truth about the Crossed infection and their evolution.  The impossible has occurred and[...]
Alan Moore's League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen To Get Film Reboot
20th Century Fox is in the process of rebooting League of Extraordinary Gentlemen based on the series by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill with the idea of launching a film franchise Their first attempt in 2003 starred Sean Connery and opened #2 at the box office behind Pirates of the Caribbean only to get blasted by[...]
Alan Moore On Us Being Far Too Comfortable With Cthulhu
Tomorrow sees the launch of Providence #1, the new comic book by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows in comic book stores from Avatar Press, who are selling the comic at their stall at Denver Comic Con today. Here, in the third of three short films by Mitch Jenkins, Alan Moore talks about how the world of HP Lovecraft has been[...]
Alan Moore's Providence #1 And More This Week From Avatar Press
It is a big week for Avatar Press with the much heralded arrival of Alan Moore's Providence #1 coming up on 5/27 along with Dark Gods #6, God is Dead #36 and Uber #25 Dark Gods #6 The final issue of the first powerful arc of Justin Jordan's Dark Gods is here! The agents of The Storm[...]
Alan Moore On HP Lovecraft As A Closet Modernist (VIDEO)
Wednesday sees the launch of Providence #1, the new comic book by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows in comic book stores from Avatar Press, who are selling the comic at their stall at Denver Comic Con today. Here, in the second of three short films by Mitch Jenkins, Alan Moore talks about the approach taken by HP Lovecraft which differentiated him from[...]
The Reason HP Lovecraft Is Of Such Importance To Alan Moore (VIDEO)
Today sees the launch of Providence #1, the new comic book by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows at Denver Comic Con And in all comic book stores on Wednesday. Here, in the first of three short films by Mitch Jenkins, Alan Moore explains the importance of HP Lovecraft, on a personal level, ahead of the comics'[...]
Marvel Liquidates Miracleman #1-10 In All Its Variants
But the liquidated price, even with a reasonable retailer mark-up will be an absolute bargain for a remastered version of one of the best superhero comic books of al time, by masters of the form in Alan Moore, Garry Leach, Alan Davis and Rick Veitch. And once Marvel have emptied their warehouses, that will be it[...]
Brian Bolland Talks Killing Joke, Past, Present And Future
The other day we ran a snippet of a then-upcoming interview with Brian Bolland in Russia, from the website spidermedia.ru in which he talked about a possible sequel to The Killing Joke, his classic Batman story with Alan Moore. The full interview has now run, including further mention of a Killing Joke sequel, and how Bolland has[...]
Go See Alan Moore And Friends Sing For Just £8.80
Happening in Northampton next Wednesday. There are twenty tickets available right here for the name-changing Alan Moore, Grace Petrie and Robin Ince's Strange Worlds And Alluring Melodies at the NN Cafe on the 13th May at 7.30pm. The NN is a "contemporary art space in the centre of Northampton" who "work with artists at all stages of their careers to[...]
Thor's Comic Review Column – Jem And The Holograms #1, The Private Eye #1-10, Giant Days #1, Star Trek/Planet of the Apes: Primate Directive #4, Nemo: River of Ghosts, Powers #2
Some of his favorite writers are Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Peter Bagge, and Kurt Busiek Prior to writing about comics, Taylor performed in punk rock bands and on the outlaw professional wrestling circuit During that time he also wrote for music and pro wrestling fanzines He believes that people who complain about Daylight Savings Time[...]
Will Your Store's Orders On Providence Be Five Times Those Of Crossed +100?
And while Alan Moore is continuing to write Crossed +100, Si Spurrier will take over for an arc from June. So Alan Moore's only other comic book scheduled this year is Providence with Jacen Burrows from Avatar, described as his Watchmen of HP Lovecraft. Which is why, as I heard from one high profile retail chain, they[...]
3 Unique Deals From 3 Unique Comic Stores
The third of Gosh Comics' League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Nemo prints by Kevin O'Neill, signed by O'Neill and Alan Moore, is now available from their shop and website here. NEMO: RIVER OF GHOSTS LIMITED EDITION SCREENPRINT By Kevin O'Neill Signed by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill A3 (297mm x 420mm), four-colour screenprint, printed on 270gsm Mohawk Superfine acid-free archival[...]
First Look: 3 Pages Of Alan Moore And Jacen Burrows' Providence #1
Providence #1 arrives May 27th, the comic fully scripted by Alan Moore with art by Jacen Burrows as they team up again following from their H.P Lovecraft inspired work Neonomicon from Avatar Press But this time, our 12 issue series takes us back to 1920's New York and New England, a time and place seminal[...]
Alan Moore's Jerusalem To Be Published In 2016 By Knockabout And Liveright
Alan Moore first announced he was writing a novel called Jerusalem in an interview I conducted with him back in 2005 but he'd been working on it for ten years before that. 600,000 words later, we have a publisher Or publishers. Knockabout, the UK publishers of League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, will be publishing Jerusalem in the UK in the[...]
Avatar Press Solicitations For June 2015 – Si Spurrier Joins Crossed +100
The big news from Avatar in June, and talked about at the weekend's London Super Comic-Con is that Si Spurrier, the author of Crossed: Wish You Were Here is writing an arc of Alan Moore's Crossed +100 series from his notes And Alan Moore's Providence jumps in size to a 40 page comic without ads[...]
My Favourite Reference In The New League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Comic
I probably haven't got it all myself. Just as with Captain Nemo and Pirate Jenny, Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill are expert at marrying up existing characters from different genres and tales to one continuity Such as Janni's bodyguard, Hugo. He seems to represent a number of characters, firstly the Irish mythological figure of Cú Chulainn, who defended Ulster[...]
First Look: Alan Moore And Jacen Burrows' Providence #2 Cover Gallery
The countdown to Providence, the new monthly comic series fully scripted by Alan Moore and illustrated by Jacen Burrows continues, awaiting its arrival on May 27th from Avatar Press We kicked things off with a full cover reveal for Providence #1, followed that with a teaser interview with Alan Moore about his motives and goals[...]
Alan Moore Heralds Providence: 'It's Time To Go For A Reappraisal Of Lovecraft'
Lovecraft-inspired series Providence fully scripted by Alan Moore and drawn by Jacen Burrows as published by Avatar Press.  Providence follows in the tradition of the previous Bram Stoker Award-winning Lovecraft collaboration between Moore and Burrows, The Neonomicon, and also in the tradition of the comics adaptation of Moore's work, The Courtyard, both published by Avatar[...]