Alan Moore Archives

In "Alpha", he's joined by Rafael Ortiz on the artwork for his own story, but also by Alan Moore with Facundo Percio and Simon Spurrier with Gabriel Andrade, each telling stories of returned gods behaving far differently than you might expect and showing the ways in which we create and empower the myths which drive[...]

It's the final, Kickstarter-funded, film in Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins' series of short films, collectively known as Show Pieces, that will lead to further appearances of this alternate Northampton, known as The Show. Here is your first look at His Heavy Heart, starring Darrel D'Silva, Andrew Buckley and Khandie Khisses, for the readers of Bleeding Cool[...]

Hannah Means-Shannon here reporting on my first honest-to-God rumor. Yes, it's partly because Rich Johnston is asleep but also because, hey, I found it

First we announced Alan Moore scripting himself into a story of the snake puppet god Glycon returning, full of the strangeness and humor that must entail, then we brought you Mike Costa giving his thoughts on using an underdog "Ifrit" fire spirit as an identification character in what's shaping up to be quite a detective[...]

Alan Moore has talked about his upcoming Kickstartered film His Heavy Heart on Nowness Nicely times to coincide with the release of the box set of Show Pieces, the first five short films written and co-starring Moore and directed by Mitch Jenkins, that begin The Show. The collection cost £35 or £50 signed (limited to 200)  for[...]

So far, Bleeding Cool has brought you the announcement that Alan Moore has written a Glycon-based story for God is Dead: Book of Acts 'Alpha', alongside an interview with Mike Costa about his masterplan for the two-parter 'Alpha' and 'Omega', and a virally-funny interview with Simon Spurrier about his story 'Pitter Patter', also in 'Alpha'. [...]

What more could you bring to a book that already has Mike Costa's guiding hand deciding to turn a whole mythological epic into a detective story and one that has Alan Moore ACTUALLY writing himself into a story as a reluctant priest of a returned largely unknown god, Glycon? Well, who could you bring to[...]

In an interview with Subhajit Banerjee in The Guardian, Alan Moore has been talking further about the Electricomics concept that he's launching Although, he's brutally honest on his conception of the current digital comics scene. "I've got absolutely no idea because I don't have any online capacity, no devices or tablets and to tell the truth I'm not[...]

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[...]