Alan Moore Archives

It's the big reveal week for Alan Moore's scripting of December's upcoming arc of Crossed entitled Crossed +100 with Gabriel Andrade of Ferals on art An added and intriguing factor in the arrival of Crossed +100 is that Moore has designed and "planned" all the covers on the series, appearing in different iterations Each cover[...]

On Friday, 26th September, the Raindance Festival is showing Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins compilation film, Show Pieces at Vue Piccadilly in London. After which there will be a Q&A with the pair, hosted by friend-of-Bleeding Cool, Tony Lee. I am expecting a dapper-off between Alan and Tony… On Friday, 26th September, the Raindance Festival is showing[...]

Here we have the complete December solicitations for Avatar Press which includes the new Crossed +100 by Alan Moore and Gabriel Andrade and the second issue in Justin Jordan's Dark Gods plus God Is Dead, Uber and more Look out for some Crossed +100 cover features coming up on Bleeding Cool. ANOTHER SUBURBAN ROMANCE GN –[...]

This week, Avatar Press announced a six-issue series arriving in December fully scripted by Alan Moore, with art by Gabriel Andrade of Ferals, set in the world of Crossed as created by Garth Ennis, but leaping 100 years into the future of the epidemic outbreak that has set uninfected humanity fighting for their lives against[...]

And when the great comics writer Alan Moore, already interested in the series Crossed via long conversations with friend and creator of the series, Garth Ennis, read Spurrier's work, it further cemented his decision to write a series within the Crossed universe himself. Moore's six-issue series with Gabriel Andrade on art, Crossed: +100 was announced by[...]

So, yesterday, Bleeding Cool's owner Avatar Press announced a thing. The French were, of course, psychic. Alan Moore et Gabriel Andrade vont travailler sur Crossed chez @AvatarPress http://t.co/qcAjGi6T88 — Buzz Comics (@BuzzComics) September 12, 2014 And some promised that they were. I called Moore writing Crossed when the first teaser appeared @Avatarpress @bleedingcool — The Bearded Canuck (@Scott_MDavis) September 15, 2014 And[...]

If you've been following the teasers running on Bleeding Cool, you'll know that today brings a major announcement from Avatar Press concerning a brand new project written by Alan Moore and drawn by Gabriel Andrade (Ferals) That project is an all-original and self-contained 6-issue arc set within the epidemic-infected Crossed universe as created by Garth[...]

Full information will be revealed on Bleeding Cool at 1PM Central time today, Monday, September 15th.

Megaton Man creator Don Simpson has been posting most entertainingly on Facebook about that project that never happened, the 1963 Annual, that would have topped off the Image Comics series by Alan Moore, Steve Bissette, Rick Veitch and more. To heck with the 1963 Annual — I'm just going to draw the "In Pictopia" Annual —[...]

When Alan Moore announced he'd finished his novel Jerusalem, there was one fact everyone wanted to report. Northampton News Comics legend Alan Moore has finished the first draft of his second novel, Jerusalem – and it runs to more than one million words. The Verge For context, that's more than two Lord of the Rings, or about as long as the[...]

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 Further information will be released on Friday, September 12th at noon Central time.

It's delicately and evocatively pencilled and written by David Hitchcock in full steampunkish style. It turns out that Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons are fans They provided the following supportive blurbs: An ambitious and masterfully executed Victorian fever-dream – Alan Moore Expertly told and truly creepy – Dave Gibbons Here's our preview of Springheeled Jack courtesy of the estimable Mr[...]

They're announcing it tomorrow. But Bleeding Cool has found the planned HTML in advance, and it all works, so you can make your orders now and get

Not that many, and certainly not Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, actually thought that it was. But a Ripperologist has finally solved the mystery of the identity of Jack The Ripper, the world's first recognised serial killer, working the streets of Victorian London, and starting a whole industry of fascination. Inspired by the From Hell movie, London[...]

Comparing himself to Alan Moore, though, he feels like an "innocent" That story will begin with Crossed #100, in March 2016, and it will be "his final statement on Crossed for awhile" There's some great stuff coming up with Crossed, with some really great people creatively, that are going to be a "surprise" Ennis is[...]

Grant Morrison has talked a  few times about the Kid Marvelman story he was asked to write for Warrior Magazine back in the day, after they'd fallen on bad terms with Alan Moore, only to get a note from Alan Moore asking him please not to. Well, there's no one to stop him now. We'd previously told[...]

Orson Wells gave him voice in the late 1930s and Alec Baldwin gave him a face in 1994. He is said to have inspired many of the heroes we know today including the title character from Alan Moore's V For Vendetta and his closest facsimile Batman Bill Finger said that he used The Shadow and other[...]

Last week saw the return of the Eisner Award-winning anthology Dark Horse Presents in a new stream-lined format renumbered at Issue #1, and it contained

Khandie Khisses talked to Bleeding Cool about her role in Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins' Show Pieces, Khandie Khisses is many things Veteran soldier, burlesque dancer, stand up comedian, occasional contributor to Bleeding Cool – and actor in Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins' Show Pieces, recently showing at London's FrightFest We bumped into each other at[...]

What I don't care for is this reputation he's been trying to build over the years as being the new and improved Alan Moore of DC Comics If I had to explain it objectively, I'd have to describe it as something akin to Newton's law of pretentiousness – the quality of any Morrison book is[...]

  Photo by Ricky-Marcel Pitcher. At the weekend, I discovered how plans for Mitch Jenkins and Alan Moore's Show Pieces movie forced Hewlett Packard closed down one of their product lines. I'm not sure which one  Was it HP abandoning PCs and tablets in 2011? Or 2012's abandoning Windows 8 tablet plans?  Or in 2013 abandoning in house[...]

A strip appearing for the debut of Electricomics, the new enhanced comic book medium launch by Alan Moore, and spinning out of his screenplay for The Show, where children read Electricomics on their Spindles. See also, the energy drink Fuel Rods and the computer game Escapism…   You can read more here. [...]

On Friday, Alan Moore made an appearance on Channel 4 News in the UK to promote the collection of short films made with Mitch Jenkins, called Show Pieces, as it begins to tour the film circuit beginning with this weekend's FrightFest in London. Also booked on Channel 4 that night with Nigel Farage, leader of UKIP,[...]

Today, in Leicester Square, London, we have had the FrightFest premiere at Vue Cinema of three of Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins' short films linked together as Show Pieces. You can pre-order your copy here if you want. But before that, Kickstarter backers of the third of those short films (including me) were given a pre-premiere showing[...]

Lots of people have good things to say about the new Teen Titans #2 from Wil Pfeifer and Kenneth Rockafort. But some more folk who will be praising them will be those, like me, who loved the Alan Moore run on WildCATS from over a decade ago And might not have picked up this comic book otherwise. At[...]

Two issues by regular series writer Mike Costa, and two "Book Of Acts" specials titled "Alpha" and "Omega" with rather splendid guest stars: Alan Moore, Kieron Gillen, Si Spurrier and Justin Jordan, all regular Avatarites. All who have created remarkably different takes. Mike Costa takes God's rival, now supposedly free, dealing with the limits of that freedom[...]

Often for a reason. But, with Bleeding Cool running Grant Morrison's cover for Multiversity #1 (above) that felt like a great chance to show off the cover work of creators better known for their writing…  Jonathan Ross' cover for Revenge #1 Mark Millar's cover for Nemesis. Jonathan Hickman on Fantastic Four. Jim Shooter's cover to Rai #0.   Gerard Way's cover for[...]

Adi Tantimedh writes: You can never fully know what a story is really about until you've seen it through to its end. As a Kickstarter backer, I finally got to watch His Heavy Heart, the last short film in Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins' cycle of short films known alternately as The Jimmy's End Cycle or Show[...]

As the story was then accepted into continuity with the rest of the DC Universe, Barbara Gordon, without the use of her legs, became Oracle, and a member of the Birds Of Prey. With accusations of misogyny over the treatment of the character, combined with accusations of being disablist over restoring her physical attributes, even the[...]