Alan Moore Archives

I spent the next year reading everything by Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman I could get my hands on, then Warren Ellis, and plenty of Grant Morrison, and just kept pulling threads that led me in new directions It was only after an initial canon read that I was ready to read "new" comics, and[...]

In 2002, Alan Moore and the late Steve Moore wrote an essay for Kaos #14 entitled "The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels", a semi-historical treatise witty, uproarious, and very informative It showed the sparks flying between the minds of Moore and Moore in full glory, and it introduced the world more fully[...]

In a significant announcement landing this morning, (but which we hinted at yesterday from teases on social media), Alan Moore will be partnering with a team of creators and funding bodies to produce a digital comics app called Electricomics which will initially feature four original comics titles, and perhaps most surprisingly, an open-access platform for[...]

Illuminatus! was first directed in 1976 by Ken Campbell and now Campbell's daughter, Daisy Eris Campbell, has created a new play, Cosmic Trigger,  to get meta about that legendary performance which featured John Gielgud. In seeking a performer to take Gielgud's place as the voice of the supercomputer FUCKUP, Alan Moore kindly agreed to embrace the[...]

The Facebook page lists it as an "app" so it may well be a comics app coming to devices near you. Twitter or Tumblr or Facebook, you choose. "@mo_ali: @johnreppion @Electricomics @leahmoore TELL ME NOWWW" there's a big clue in the Creative Process post on http://t.co/XzPqPhHnNC — John Reppion (@johnreppion) May 27, 2014 That would be… Leah: I'm currently editing a big exciting project involving[...]

We've looked into the very, very early work of Alan Moore, uncovering what appears to be his earliest published work, written in 1969 Today we have another early fanzine not listed on his biography, the front and back covers for the fanzine The Planet Comicollector #2 from 1970, portraying Marvel's Doctor Strange. The eBay listing set[...]

The defining comic-book idea, of a story told simultaneously with pictures and words, barely applies to him. They talked about Alan Moore's transforming work, what influenced it, and what it influences, choosing a mean-spirited Watchman page They talked about his influence in breaking and smashing the page up, using a page from Young Avengers to see[...]

He would go on to direct the live action movie version of the Death Note manga in 2006. What Alan Moore did for Swamp Thing, this trilogy of movies did for a giant flying turtle. We in the West may regard giant monster movies as kitschy, but in Japan, they're taken more serious since they tap into[...]

Alan Moore is a keen supporter of public libraries and for a number of years has made public appearances to support them, in the face of government cutbacks We've covered a few of those efforts. Earlier this year, the Northampton Herald & Post reported on Alan Moore working with the library and children who had been[...]

First Frank Miller and then Alan Moore released comics that redefined the character (I'll get to those books shortly) Burton's first Batman film was on the way and had fans and the general public really talking about Batman in a new way The only problem was Robin The reinvention that Batman was headed for though[...]

 "The shower was the turning point", he joked. After doing some work at DC which included Code Name: Knockout for Vertigo, he got "drafted" at ABC/Wildstorm to work on Terra Obscura for 2 years. Back then, he said, Alan Moore didn't have a computer and his fax machine was plugged into phone, so to talk to Alan,[...]

Working with Alan Moore, particularly, challenged him to do just that The "middle section" of Promethea, he said, the Kabbalah Quest, where each story and "world" would differ in "style" encouraged him to "try anything" because comics "can be anything" When he feels he's approaching something that "can't be done", he said, he goes "right[...]

It renders the fictions we consume fluid and malleable, becoming something we play with for our own ends and needs.  This is probably the same mentality that made Science Fiction writer Philip Jose Farmer think up the Wold Newton Universe, which posited that the famous pulp heroes pop culture like Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes and Doc[...]

Alan Moore's bibilography is clear His first published work was in Embryo #5, called Once There Were Daemons, published by Northampton Arts Lab, in 1971. That's wrong Moore scholars point to the two page feature he wrote on The Shadow, published in the fanzine Seminar #2 in September 1970 Two copies sold on eBay for £350 in 2009. But it turns[...]

What's a publisher to do? Marvel is reprinting Marvelman/Miracleman but some readers are familiar with different prints. Take this scene from Miracleman

Occupy Comics, from Black Mask Studios, with its host of contributing artists and writers capturing some of the ways in which comics can protest inequalities in society, finally arrived in trade collection this week, complete with Alan Moore's long essay "Buster Brown at the Barricades", edited, in fact, by me: Hannah Means-Shannon. But even I was[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Dark Hollow Imperial Stout Brewery: Blue Mountain Brewery Darkness enveloped my night as I poured out a bottle of Dark Hollow, an Imperial stout aged in oak barrels. Dark Hollow, as is customary with stouts, pours black and produces a thin, tan head that lasts for a little while.  It produces the scents that accompany[...]

Adi Tantimedh writes, By now I'm sure people have either watched or about to watch the final episode of True Detective.  And I'm sure a lot of people will have read that writer Nick Pizzolatto has cited Alan Moore as a key influence on his writing Some commentators online have already cited From Hell by Alan[...]

Alan Moore's writing has influenced many a writer Occasionally they'll just cut and paste We covered that with one scene from Being Human and Miracleman before now. And last night's finale of True Detective did something similar with Top Ten. Considering these are the final lines of the episode, there are spoilers obviously And our twosome are[...]

Dave Wallace reviews Nemo: Roses of Berlin for Bleeding Cool: There are many words you could use to describe Alan Moore's writing "Intelligent", "structured", "layered", "elegant" and "poetic" are just a few that spring to mind However, after reading Nemo: Roses of Berlin – the latest chapter of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen saga – one[...]

The Sequential App, which specialises in publishing and distributing select graphic novels, creating a boutique store, has the new League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novella, Roses Of Berlin, by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill out today. It's not yet available on ComiXology, nor in print, this appears to be a deliberate early sale to help promote[...]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEUAtWXPstQ[/youtube] From Negative Burn, by Alan Moore and Art Adams, recorded by Jazz Butcher. Oh, and this is what happens when Alan Moore draws Godzilla… I'm tired of trampling Tokyo. No interest remains In eating cars or tearing down the elevated trains And I long for Monster Island In the late Cretaceous silence Where every night between the perfect stars The tiny twins hold[...]

Get in quick as this is sure to sell out fast! Saturday, 29th March, 2pm to 6pm – Gosh Comics The grand old wizard of comics, Alan Moore, and the wonderfully talented Kevin O'Neill will be at Gosh! all day, signing copies of Nemo: Roses Of Berlin, out from Knockabout ROB is a continuation of the League[...]

Baker are incomplete with the Crawford Funeral Homes assisting the Baker family. Bill Baker had been writing about comics for a decade and a half, including Icons: The DC Comics And WildStorm Art of Jim Lee and books including interviews with Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, George Perez, Michael Abon Oeming , and many more, available here. Those[...]

the showrunner, producer and sole writer of HBO's True Detective, back in 2010: The first time I got excited about writing was reading comic books by Alan Moore and Grant Morrison as a kid Growing up in southwest Louisiana, in a house without many books, the sophistication and depth of their stories were really[...]

Nowadays of course, that's no longer an issue. The Special, again used as a bit of a fill in, was used as a way to reprint some old Mick Anglo strips with a bookend device from Alan Davis and Alan Moore, with janitors at Garguanza's place looking back over the old "recordings" It was also a[...]

"If Jim Shooter and Dick Giordano wrestled, who would win?" "The mud" Alan Moore has declared that he won't give any more interviews, apart from those promoting new works And considering the effect each interview he gives has on the comic internet, they are going to be missed So how about an old interview, from 1987 for[...]

This is an A3 giclée print by Kevin O'Neill reproducing a splash page from the upcoming The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Roses Of Berlin by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill It will be available through Gosh Comics of London and limited to forty copies And will not include that bar. So, you'd better hurry…   [...]

Promethea is from Alan Moore's America's Best Comics imprint from the final days of the previous century Moore's big idea was to dig deeper into our literary traditions and make comic books from older legends With Promethea, Moore is mining mythology and folklore and ultimately, the nature of storytelling itself This is a meta comic[...]

On Wednesday we get the launch of Royal Masters Of War, City: The Mind In The Machine, Fuse, Mercenary Sea, Death's Head II, She Hulk, Wolverine, X-Force, Devil's Hopyard, Gravel, Insect Bath, Bunker and the reissue, with new material, of Alan Moore and Steve Parkhouse's The BoJeffries Saga. And the week after that? The launch of[...]