Alan Moore Archives

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-zBbkhasdI[/youtube] Last weekend, The Guardian printed an interview with Alan Moore, where he was quoted as saying "I hate superheroes I think they're abominations They don't mean what they used to mean They were originally in the hands of writers who would actively expand the imagination of their nine-to-13-year-old audience[...]

So, instead, we get the following to be very thankful for instead. TONIGHT: Alan Moore in conversation with Lance Parkin, at the Prince Charles Cinema, with a showing of Act Of Faith and Jimmy's End and special guests I'll be there. And I'll also pop by Orbital Comics before for a signing and guided exhibition by Emma Rios,[...]

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On Alan Moore's 60th birthday, Bleeding Cool is proud to show new artwork by Kevin O'Neill from the upcoming League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novella, Nemo: Roses Of Berlin, to be published in April by Top Shelf in the USA and Knockabout in the UK. And we start with a double page; Pages 2 and 3. Page 23,[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

It means I have my ticket reserved for this, on Tuesday 26th November… The Prince Charles Cinema and Aurum Press present – Magic Words: An Evening with Alan Moore: The world's most famous comics writer and co-creator of works such as V for Vendetta, Watchmen, From Hell, Lost Girls, A Small Killing and The League of[...]

The new Alan Moore biography, Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore, will be available to readers in December in the USA, but if you had your ear to the ground at New York Comic Con, you might have caught up with author Lance Parkin signing a few choice early copies from Aurum Press[...]

Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls has been removed from the shelves of New Zealand's Auckland Library You can probably guess why. But there's an intriguingly Catch-22 twist. Louise LaHatte, regional collections manager for Auckland City Libraries, said the book had never gone to the Office of Film and Literature Classification but the library was worried[...]

Bleeding Cool reader Brad Searles writes; I caught Jeffrey Lewis & The Rain (opening for Quasi) here in Boston last night, and he played a new-ish song he wrote in honor of Alan Moore's upcoming 60th birthday It's a bio/tribute song with accompanying artwork by Lewis projected behind the band while they play I found a[...]

Marvel have made an agreement with Alan Moore to not use his name in conjunction with their reprinting of the Marvelman/Miracleman comic book, at his request. Which necessitated such solicitations such as this; MIRACLEMAN #1 & 2 THE ORIGINAL WRITER & MICK ANGLO (W) GARRY LEACH, ALAN DAVIS, PAUL NEARY, STEVE DILLON & MICK ANGLO (A) ISSUE #1 – COVER[...]

His favorite piece was the monologue from Alan Moore's The Killing Joke as Jim Gordon is going through memory lane During the panel at NYCC, Baker performed the monologue for the delighted crowd. [youtube]http://youtu.be/pAn49oUtHJE[/youtube] Troy Baker received a lot of material from the producers of Batman: Arkham Origins for when he was going to audition for[...]

Notice, no mention of Alan Moore, by mutual agreement And it is Miracleman, not Marvelman. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */   "The wait is over," says Editor In Chief Axel Alonso "Marvel will finally be bringing these timeless, ground-breaking stories to[...]

There are currently plans for up to issue number 120 on Crossed right now. God is Dead has been a huge hit for Avatar them, "too good to stop",  and it will be continuing after issue 6.  The next arc is so big that the book is going to "bi-weekly, an announcement that prompted applause from[...]

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IRON MOUSE The Iron Man Experience comes to Disneyland Hong Kong. Upon entering the ride vehicle our guests will be able to take flight with Iron Man on

Option, here, emerges from the prior Option that led to the movie (which we were paid our share of once there WAS a movie; how it works in the Warner/DC world). John Constantine was created by Alan Moore, Steve Bissette and John Totleben, as he first appeared in Swamp Thing #21 Moore has waived any such[...]

WHAT IF…? What if… Alan Moore's Fashion Beast had been made as a film? The Northampton Herald And Post asks… Alan laughs: "It might have led to a whole different world in which people would have erroneously assumed that I was obsessed with fashion rather than a world in which they erroneously assumed I was obsessed with[...]

The English translated version just came out… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2OLRrocn3s[/youtube] TAKING STRIDES Diamond Comic Distributors announced that kids shoe company Stride Rite will be sponsoring their Hallowe'en Comic Fest, in which free comics and mini-comics are handed out to kids in comics stores. THIS IS NOT THE CLOWN YOU ARE LOOKING FOR Alan Moore is not the Northampton Clown[...]

I really don't think that in the nineteen eighties comics grew up, I think that they just met the median emotional age of most of the readership coming the other way. From BBC's Today Programme, Alan Moore talking about Fashion Beast, written in 1985 and now published as a graphic novel from Bleeding Cool owner Avatar[...]

Alan Moore signed copies of Fashion Beast at Waterstones bookstore in Piccadilly, London early today, the graphic novel directly adapted from his nineteen eighties screenplay, written with Malcolm McLaren. He seemed to rather enjoy the experience Certainly those in line were very happy, even if it started with them waiting under the bus stop outside the[...]

  So, Alan Moore is signing Fashion Beast at Waterstones, Piccadilly in London tomorrow, late afternoon Waterstones has been putting out the signage. I understand that early queueage may be in order I'll be there, obviously…   So, Alan Moore is signing Fashion Beast at Waterstones, Piccadilly in London tomorrow, late afternoon Waterstones has been putting[...]

Then get yourself over to Waterstone's Piccadilly, where at 4.30pm, Alan Moore will be signing copies of Fashion Beast, the graphic novel based on the screenplay he wrote with Malcolm McLaren at the same time he was writing Watchmen. If you touch his beard, you will be cleansed of all impure thoughts. See you there? And you[...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgc5jFvyuMg Patrick Willems did rather well at San Diego Comic Con. His friends caught up to him on Twitter...

Hannah Mears-Shannon writes for Bleeding Cool. Watching the "Jimmy's End cycle" that will someday, hopefully, become a feature film called The Show from Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins, gave Rich Johnston genuine nightmares and I can certainly see why It would be disingenuous of me to say that I wasn't disturbed by watching the first four[...]

Stop me if you've heard this one before.  But there was the first thing, then the final script page, then Brian Bolland's take. Would we get an

Discussion on the true meaning of The Killing Joke sweeps the top three trending spots from yesterday. But, with the discussion earlier, there was one