Alan Moore Archives

Electricomics had a strong presence at Thought Bubble in the UK this past November, and I was fortunate enough to not only be part of the Electricomics panel, with its mellifluous video introduction by Alan Moore, and also to speak to several members of the digital comics research and development team, including Project Manager Leah[...]

This year it was won by Bill Watterson, after Alan Moore declined the honour. Nevertheless, he is nominated again, as well as for the first time, Stan Lee! Christophe Blain Christian Binet Charles Burns Daniel Clowes Nicolas de Crécy Pierre Christin Cosey Étienne Davodeau Edika Emmanuel Guibert Hermann Alejandro Jodorowsky Quino Stan Lee Milo Manara Taiyo Matsumoto Lorenzo Mattotti Alan Moore Katsuhiro Otomo Marjane Satrapi Joann Sfar Bill Sienkiewicz Jiro Taniguchi Richard Corben Jean Van Hamme Chris Ware Favourites are Katsuhiro Otomo, after he[...]

In 2003 Avatar published Alan Moore's Another Suburban Romance A stand-alone graphic novel adapted by Antony Johnston and drawn by Juan Jose Ryp The book was published in black & white Now, over a decade later it's been released in color. Alan Moore spoke about the project at the time of its initial release: "Another Suburban Romance[...]

March's solicitations for Avatar Press show the latest in Alan Moore's first monthly comic in ages, Crossed +100, and plenty more from some very familiar talents… GOD IS DEAD VOL 04 TPB $19.99 Cover: Jacen Burrows Writer: Mike Costa Art: Juan Frigeri, Emiliano Urdinola MR, Color, 144 pages Everything Mike Costa has written has been building to this epic fourth volume! With the[...]

With it, pilot comics on the Electricomics app will be launched, featuring the work of Alan Moore and Colleen Doran (Big Nemo), Leah Moore,  John Reppion, and Nicola Scott (Sway) Garth Ennis and Peter Snejbjerg (Red Horse), and Peter Hogan and Paul Davidson (Cabaret Amygdala) The Electricomics team is actually much larger, though, and includes[...]

This is the famous "sex" scene by Alan Moore and Steve Bissette for Swamp Thing. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NefuBEZPyk[/youtube] And this is how it was portrayed in the movie Return Of Swamp Thing. You can see why Alan Moore might have told Bill Baker "ever since I started to do work that attracted interest from the film industry, which was pretty close to[...]

Crossed 100 #1 is 100 years after C-Day, and written by Alan Moore Also, Dynamite's Shaft #1 would make his creator proud. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qvGvknudBQ[/youtube] Aaron Haaland writes, Hey Fandom, I'm back with another fat stack of New Comics Now! It's not a big week, but there's some stand outs. DC leads with Gail Simone's Secret Six #1, which I[...]

Having interviewed Alan Moore about his six issue comic series Crossed +100 with Gabriel Andrade for Bleeding Cool and Bleeding Cool Magazine, I of all people should have had some idea what to expect from the first issue of the comic We've heard about Moore's view on the science fiction aspects of the comic, about[...]

This is a big week for Avatar Press with six books hitting the shelves including Crossed +100 #1 by Alan Moore and the wrap up of Extinction Parade: War by Max Brooks You also have David Lapham on Crossed: Badlands, Justin Jordan on Dark Gods, Kieron Gillen on Uber and Garth Ennis on War Stories…[...]

Hosts Randy Young and Chris Hunter say: Thanks for pressing play! Godhead and Axis dominate the storylines this week as both Sinestro and Green Lantern have to deal with working with enemies and and getting to the New Gods. Axis gives us a zen Deadpool, mutants with a nuclear football, Kitty Pryde robbing a bank, and Medusa changing[...]

One of the highlights of the Festival for me, and for many of my like-minded friends, was the presence of the team behind the current research and development project Electricomics. Team members who helped support the Electricomics table at the Festival and were involved in the panel presented at the show, including Leah Moore (Project Manager[...]

Once upon a time, DC Comics planned to publish the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier with a vinyl record, as recorded by Alan Moore and friends. Then they decided that one of the songs sounded too much like the theme from Fireball XL5 and changed their minds. Tey also changed their mind about selling the[...]

Talking to Tim Martin of Aeon Magazine, Alan Moore talked about his intent to finish the grimoire in the manner of British children's annuals of old, The Moon And Serpent Bumper Book Of Magic, co-authored with the late Steve Moore. Tim writes, Moore will, he says, be finishing 'The Moon and Serpent' book himself in due time[...]

He has asked nicely. Writing on Facebook about the use of the V For Vendetta mask by certain protest groups, the former editor and publisher of Warrior Magazine, which first featured V For Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd wondered where his money was. Holding the masks up like placards kinda defeats the object of them[...]

Future Taylor is the lead character in Alan Moore's new comic book series, Crossed +100, which receives it's first teaser tomorrow in the shape of the Crossed +100 Taste Test, featuring an interview with Alan about his new series, examples of scripted pages, and the rather impressive art from Gabriel Andrade that they generated, as well[...]

The Electricomics team is fairly massive, including comic creators, media folks, digital researchers, and more, and for Thought Bubble, Leah Moore (the project's editor), John Reppion, and Peter Hogan (all comic creators for the pilot comics on the platform), Mitch Jenkins (photographer, filmmaker and co-founder of producing company Orphans of the Storm), and Daniel Merlin[...]

FX has started working on a new drama series based on From Hell, the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell The new production is being executive produced by Don Murphy (Transformers) who also produced the 2001 film starring Johnny Depp and Robbie Coltrane David Arata (Children of Men) is on board to write the[...]

Avatar Press' solicitations for February 2015. From new trades for Caliban and Uber, to continuing comics for Alan Moore's Crossed +100, David Hine returning to Crossed Badlands, Dark Gods, Uber, War Stories and God Is Dead… CALIBAN TPB $19.99 Writer: Garth Ennis Cover & Art: Facundo Percio MR, Color, 176 pages The crew of the mining ship Caliban is on a routine mission[...]

Lisa Wood is the director of Thought Bubble, the comics art festival currently taking place in Leeds. As Tula Lotay, she is also the artist on Supreme:

You can see a full review and report on the showing of the Alan Moore-written movie Show Pieces in Leeds last night courtesy of Hannah Means-Shannon But I was also able to take a little video in the process Apologies for the gaps And the judders And the definition Hopefully Alan and co will make up for[...]

Show Pieces consists of three parts of the five piece short film series written by Alan Moore and directed by Mitch Jenkins While Show Pieces as screened at the festival includes Act of Faith, Jimmy's End, and His Heavy Heart, the wider film cycle actually also includes the shorts  Upon Reflection and A Professional Relationship. The[...]

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Alan Moore won't be at the Thought Bubble comics art festival at Leeds this weekend, though you may see him wandering around the city centre the evening before, as his Show Pieces movie is paying at Leeds International Film Festival. But he will be there in signature. John Reppion-Moore writes, 500 things Signed by Alan Moore[...]

Scroobius Pip, poet/spoken word artist/rapper/musician has a rather brilliant podcast up, he recorded with Alan Moore at Alan's house. Totally unedited, an hour and a half of conversation between the two points of view. You can find it here in many forms, or just stream below… "Welcome, welcome, welcome…" [audio:http://podcasts.scroobiuspip.co.uk/DP_03.mp3] [...]

Thought Bubble, Britain's biggest comics art festival, runs from the 9th to the 16th of November in Leeds But the Leeds International Film Festival runs from the 5th to the 20th of November. And where they intersect, that's where Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins will be showing off Show Pieces, three of their short The Show films[...]

January sees Alan Moore writing his second work-for-hire comic book issue in friend Garth Ennis' world, for Crossed +100 as David Lapham returns to the ongoing Crossed Badlands series, Justin Jordan continues his Dark Gods, Kieron Gillen on Uber, Mike Costa on God Is Dead and Garth Ennis on War Stories Does any other publisher right[...]

Christensen jumped right in regarding the announcement that Alan Moore will be writing Crossed +100 in December. Garth Ennis said, "I think this Moore chap has a little talent", to applause Moore's work on Crossed began with reading Crossed and talking to Ennis about it Initially it was a little extreme for Moore, but reading further,[...]

Avatar Press always have a strong presence at New York Comic Con, and this year things are coming up very Crossed in the wake of the announcement of Alan Moore and Gabriel Andrade's six issue series Crossed +100 coming to shops in December In fact, in a move previously unannounced, they've decided to bring a[...]

New control pads created by fans for the DC board game Axis Of Villains to add some desperately-missing female characters to the game… Top Twenty Traffic Of The Week Are Grant Morrison And Jonathan Hickman Planning A Sneaky Crossover? Your Ten Page Uncorrected Preview Of The New-Look Yellow-Doc Martened-Batgirl A Big Change For Doctor Strange (UPDATE)  Avatar Press Announces Crossed[...]

Leading on from last week's reveal of Alan Moore and Gabriel Andrade on a six issue arc of Crossed set 100 years in the future from the Crossed outbreak, and fully scripted as well as cover-designed by Moore, we revealed a wide swath of variant covers and options for the December release of the comic[...]