Alan Moore Archives

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[...]
Your First Look At The Remastered Miracleman #1
    Marvel Comics are publishing a remastered version of Miracleman from January, by Alan Moore The Original Writer, Mick Anglo, Garry Leach, Alan Davis, Chuck Austen, Rick Veitch, Rick Totleben, Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham We might have mentioned it once or twice. Eventually. Here's a look at the new work, Garry Leach's art, recoloured[...]
Supreme Comic Book Trademark Registration From Nuben Azar
Some remember Alan Moore's reinvention of the character into a Silver Age pastiche, and subsequent pastiche of many superhero tropes And some will have enjoyed Erik Larsen reinvention of the character yet again, befio cancellation. Well it looks as if someone else has plans, for the name at least. One Nuben Azar of Brooklyn, New York, has[...]
Alan Moore's Dodgem Logic Gets An Italian Job
It has been noted that if you meet Alan Moore in Northampton, he is more than likely to take you to an Italian restaurant of his favour. Well, maybe they might be interested in stocking this publication. The Best Of Dodgem Logic collects a number of articles, features and comics from the much loved Alan Moore-created magazine,[...]
"Alan Moore, Hitler And God, Though Their Friendship May Seem Odd"…
Taken from Alan Moore's evening at the Prince Charles Theatre with Lance Parkin which you can see here and hear here… "I've always said Northampton is the centre of the universe Hitler's invasion plan ended with the capture of Northampton Also God directed his angels there in the eighth century So I thought we could all[...]
Pop Culture Hounding Alan Moore And Lance Parkin
[audio:http://popculturehound.net/podpress_trac/web/2866/0/PCHPodcastEpisode66.mp3] by Chris Thompson After my last episode with the amazing Max Bemis from Say Anything (which you can still listen to here) I feel very privileged to bring to you this exclusive recording of Alan Moore & Lance Parkin in conversation at The Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square, London. Timed to coincide with the release of[...]
Does Original Killing Joke Artwork Reveal Greater Sexual Intent For Batgirl?
But for many fans, this find will be the most surprising yet. It appears to be an original page from Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's The Killing Joke from DC Comics which differs from the final print image in the comic Brian Bolland, when shown this Twitpic, has confirmed to Bleeding Cool that it is genuine[...]
It's Adventure Time With Bleeding Cool Magazine!
Order the 100-pages of exclusive, not-available-on-the web content now! BLEEDING COOL MAGAZINE #9 Retail Price: $4.99 US MR, Full Color, 104 pages PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:  What time is it?  Adventure Time!  Join us as the biggest kids comics in the world join the freshest cartoon on television to create an issue like no other.  Bleeding Cool Magazine also welcomes you[...]
Lying In The Gutters – 18th November 2013 – Happy Birthday, Alan!
Today is Alan Moore's sixtieth birthday Have a good one sir Don't let the candles catch your beard. If today's rumours are anything to go by, the big changes at DC are about to be challenged by the big changes at Marvel The scandals of the the week are about to be overshadowed by something even[...]
What Can We Expect From Five Years Later – By Way Of Alan Moore
It is it be written by Keith Giffen, Dan Jurgens, Brian Azzarello and Jeff Lemire after Greg Rucka and Brian Keene pulled out. It will feature characters from out of the current timeline such as the Batman of Batman Beyond. There is a comparison with the proposed-but-never-published Twilight Of The Superheroes crossover pitch by Alan Moore to[...]
Download One Alan Moore Biography For Free – And Win Another (UPDATED)
It's Alan Moore's sixtieth birthday next week For his fiftieth birthday, Gary Spencer Millidge put out the anthology Alan Moore: Portrait Of An Extraordinary Gentleman I had a page in it Now, ten years later, Millidge has made his contribution which told Moore's life as a biographical comic, available free on the Sequential App for[...]
A Wonderful Short Story By Alan Moore And Rick Veitch You Can Buy For 99 Cents Today
Which means all the individual issues of V For Vendetta are 99 cents each, but so are selected issues of the ABC line, like Promethea, Top Ten, Swamp Thing, Terra Obscura, Voodoo and Green Lantern written by Alan Moore. But that also includes Tomorrow Stories Specifically Tomorrow Stories #2 Which contains a short Greyshirt story, "How[...]
2000AD Vs JMS – Twilight Zones And Future Shocks
You could never do a single comic book with the depth of storytelling you'd get in, say, "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," or "The Obsolete Man." Well, now from the 2000AD Facebook page… That would be Alan Moore's Future Shocks right here Which has led to some entertaining comments, including one from JMS. J[...]