Alan Moore Archives

Things To Do In London In March During British Comics Month
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[...]
Comics Interviewer Bill Baker Dies, Aged 55
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[...]
True Detective – It's All Alan Moore And Grant Morrison's Fault
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[...]
An Alan Moore Interview For £700 – From 1987
"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[...]
Splash Page From The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Roses Of Berlin
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…   [...]
In One Week, In Two Weeks – The BoJeffries Saga Returns
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[...]
Alan Moore Withdraws From Angoulême Grand Prix
So Alan Moore is one of the three main nominees for the Grand Prix of Angoulême, alongside Bill Watterson and Katsuhiro Otomo. Such an honour, the greatest in the comics industry, would see Moore made a member of the Angoulême Academy and President of next year's festival This accompanies the French release of Neonomicon, a major[...]
In Play Cosmic Trigger, Alan Moore Will Be The Voice Of An A.I. Supercomputer
John Higgs, the author of The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned A Million Pounds, a book which includes a chapter about Alan Moore, recently visited Moore in Northampton, and in the meantime secured Moore's agreement to read the lines for FUCKUP, an "artificially intelligent supercomputer which predicts Armageddon by use of the[...]
The Marvelman Story Never Reprinted Until Today
Fearing newstand distributor disatisfaction, Dez Skinn got writer Alan Moore to write a new fill-in story to go between chapters Possibly in the spirit of Days Of Future Past, possibly of Terminator, it meant that after only three short chapters of the comic, we took a trip to the future of Marvelman, to see the[...]
J'Adore Le Alan Moore
And they have chosen Englishman Alan Moore, the first time they have celebrated a comics writer over an artist or writer/artist. Concentrating on prints and original artwork of his comics, including Eddie Campbell, David Lloyd, Melinda Gebbie, Kevin O'Neill, Dave Gibbons and more, as well as scripts, research notes and cuttings, acquired and curated by Jean-Marie[...]
Boycott Threatens To Disrupt Angoulême Grand Prix
Binet, Christophe Blain, Charles Burns, Pierre Christin, Daniel Clowes, Richard Corben, Bernard Cosey, Étienne Davodeau, Nicolas de Crécy, Edika, Emmanuel Guibert, Hermann, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Manu Larcenet, Milo Manara, Lorenzo Mattotti, Alan Moore, Katsuhiro Otomo, Quino, Marjane Satrapi, Joann Sfar, Jiro Taniguchi, Jean Van Hamme, Chris Ware and Bill Watterson. But the Academy, who normally vote on[...]
Unsung Masterpieces #2: Alec, with Eddie Campbell
– Ales Kot Do you need me to tell you how good Eddie Campbell is? Or that ALEC is probably the best book-length comic about art and wine and midlife crises and families and friends and wine and love and art and saying goodbye and terror there is? – Neil Gaiman In the simplest of terms, Alec is Eddie[...]
Whatever Happened To The Cover Of The Killing Joke?
By Alan Moore and Brian Bolland You may have heard of it. Controversial, hated and loved, cherished by some, seen as all that is wrong with comics by others, disowned by its writer and elevated by his fans, there have been essays, books, dissertations about it, and there will be many more to come Each generation[...]
Liz Moran Wears Knickers In Miracleman – But Only In The Digital Version
Garry Leach seemed rather bemused by the news earlier today (video coming soon). How the digital version is going to cope with the graphic childbirth issue, I have no idea… here's Lance Parkin, author of Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore suggestion for Bleeding Cool.   Marvelman/Miracleman has a history of people trying to sensor[...]
Why Miracleman Matters, Thirty Years On
This morning I talked to a shop assistant at Orbital Comics who was reading Miracleman for the first time. Because, today sees the publication of Miracleman #1, by Alan Moore and Garry Leach Originally published as Marvelman in the pages of Warrior Magazine, it was a revival of the believed-abandoned British ripoff of Captain Marvel from[...]
The Next League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Book Is River Of Ghosts, And Set In 1975
Roses Of Berlin isn't out yet, but the next League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen chapter by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, River Of Ghosts, will complete the Nemo trilogy begun by Heart Of Ice. O'Neill told Diamond Previews, published today, that the new book will be set in 1975 in South America. That's the year Wonder Woman started[...]
Your First Look At The New Alan Moore And Steve Parkhouse BoJeffries Saga
Alan Moore wrote three strips for it One was Marvelman, now to be republished by Marvel Comics in 2014 Another was V For Vendetta, still in print in increasingly luxurious formats from DC Comics and the subject of a major motion picture by the Wachowski Brothers But the third, The BoJeffries Saga with artist Steve[...]
Watchmen Deluxe On Kindle, 448 Pages For Five Bucks
The Watchmen Deluxe edition by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, 448 pages of it, for $4.99. Bargain. This may be the Kindle deal that digital refuseniks may find hard to argue with The Watchmen Deluxe edition by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, 448 pages of it, for $4.99. Bargain. This may be the Kindle deal that digital[...]