Alan Moore Archives

So there's one thing we've been talking about this weekend. And now the full script to The Killing Joke has gone online. You can find it in its entirety

Available on the Kindle here in the UK and here in the USA. Yesterday we ran Grant Morrison's rather convincing theory that Batman kills The Joker at the end of The Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland by breaking his neck And the surprise that this hadn't come up before But clearly, from this[...]

They are known by their abbreviations A, T, C, and G. Last night Kickstarter backers of Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins' Jimmy's End films received four of the five films of this cycle of what Moore now calls "The Show". We'd seen An Act Of Faith and Jimmy's End on YouTube (now taken down) and some us[...]

Though didn't Alan Moore once say that it was "only a Batman annual"? UPDATE: Here come the clever clogs. @bleedingcool You never got that? I'm pretty sure alan moore even commented on it himself years ago It fulfills the promise of the opening. — Alan Sizzler Kistler (@SizzlerKistler) August 16, 2013 @bleedingcool I said this in print in my[...]

Those two things are not equivalent, and if you don't understand, you shouldn't be writing rape scenes. Which, and this is important, is not stating that people, even in superhero comics, shouldn't be writing about rape, but they should try to have a better understanding when they do so. But exactly how unique is this to Millar?[...]

From today's Avengers A.I. #2 by Sam Humphries and André Lima Araújo... Dimitrios, downloaded into one of the old Iron Man suits, indeed on that had a

So he's playing to a home crowd. But still, in an industry where UK orders are generally between 5-15% of a US title's total, for Fashion Beast's UK orders to make up around 75% of the total number of orders is a little peculiar. It may indicate the UK retailers expect a rather massive boom on sales[...]

Thank you, TMZ. You have justified your existence forever.

Hannah Means-Shannon writes for Bleeding Cool: Chris Ross started his digital announcements for Top Shelf this coming year by revealing that Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls will finally be available in digital format via ComiXology and Amazon, in three parts The first part, actually, will be half price for the duration of SDCC weekend,[...]

Contributors to the print include Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, Grant Morrison, Bryan Talbot, Clive Barker, Mark Buckingham, Glenn Fabry, Duncan Fegredo, Melinda Gebbie, Hunt Emerson and Phil Elliott The artists' proof he's reproducing it from has been on his wall for nearly a quarter-century, but until now it's been published only in the programme for[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imbC9E_xlFM[/youtube] Alan Moore talks about the Jimmy's End movies, and how His Heavy Heart will bridge the gap between the initial short films and his planned feature film, The Show And how there are many more worlds to, well, show The parallel Northampton and the characters who live in it… His Heavy Heart has just over eleven[...]

We talked to Glasweigan writer Andrew Hope last year about his new Marvel comic project. Of which he couldn't say much. Hope was a peer of Mark Millar

Ladies and gentlemen, let's talk a bit about Alan Moore's script for The Saga of the Swamp Thing #21, appropriately titled "The Anatomy Lesson." The Saga of the Swamp Thing #21 Okay, so there's this thing whenever a new creator comes onboard an established book or character, this important moment that pronounces to the audience that while[...]

This is from the Jimmy's End storyboard, eighty panels as originally drawn by Alan Moore in 2010, and only available in the Jimmy's End's screenplay book, available signed and numbered only as part of the £150 donor reward for the His Heavy Heart kickstarter One for true Alan Moore collectors, there…. This is from the[...]

Alan Moore, talking to you from the future as Lord Of The Manor, thanking you for your Kickstarter contributions. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0kAdsN_QiU[/youtube] You'd watch a Downton Abbey with Alan Moore summoning butlers, summoning maids and summoning great demons from the imaginasphere, wouldn't you? I bet PBS would love the shit out of that. [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vsocF3Qec4 Okay, it's more of a shuffle. But friend of Bleeding Cool, Khandie Khisses, is definitely in there... You can

Darrell D'Silva is in rehearsals right now… but looking forward to working on His Heavy Heart, the final film in Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins' set of five films that make up Jimmy's End. And you can be a part of it… [youtube]Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG9aoaz7Ttc[/youtube]     [...]

Warning: contains minor spoilers. Every time a new Alan Moore project is announced, it's a big deal The Kickstarter campaign for His Heavy Heart, the last chapter in the Jimmy's End Cycle should be especially a big deal because it would complete the first feature length movie to be made with an original screenplay he wrote[...]

As Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins' kickstarter appeal for His Heavy Heart approaches the halfway funding mark, Moore has a personal message for those, including Bleeding Cool readers, who have backed him in this venture. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39fdD21HjO8[/youtube] Something tells me the new T-shirt donor reward may be quite popular[...]

Bleeding Cool contributor and burlesque queen Khandie Khisses will be front and centre on the slipcase for Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins' DVD and book package for their Jimmy's End films We couldn't be more proud. This packaging is exclusive to Kickstarter donors at the £30 level. And hiding behind Khandie? Why that's Mr Metterton, as played by Alan Moore[...]

And Alan Moore had decided to do so stroking a stuffed pussy cat and sporting an eye patch… and talking about their upcoming film and/or TV series The Show. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41NsxLB2qiQ[/youtube] They are continuing to promote their Kickstarter appeal to fund the last of their Jimmy's End short films, His Heavy Heart[...]

She secretly leaked the news to Alan Moore, who phoned up then-DC Comics President Jenette Kahn and put a kibosh on it Possibly by shouting "Kaaaaaaaaaahn!" down the line. But that wouldn't work any more So what can you do if you work in DC PR? Damn the project with faint praise? That's what Bleeding Cool correspondent[...]

If they ever do, nobody will be happier than me about it; no sour grapes there. You see, I can't even really "license" those stories, much less issue a Creative Commons license—hence, my decision to announce anyone interested in doing so now has my blessings, as long as my © and ™ is applied, per our[...]

Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins have launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to fund a short film, His Heavy Heart. This will be the fifth in a series of five such films, two of which have been released so far, with four finished, all of them set in and around Jimmy's End, a semi-fictional working men's[...]

They knew the kind of demand for an Alan Moore comic, a Warren Ellis comic, a Garth Ennis comic, they could pretty much nail it Then Uber came along and it all went out of the window, sellouts, second prints, having to limit sales to one per customer, and not selling the book digitally didn't[...]

UPDATE: Yes, sorry folks, UK and Ireland only... Sequential, the digital boutique graphic novel app that we covered in depth a few weeks ago, has gone

Well Occupy gives you your proof and more thanks to the efforts of Joshua Dysart, Kelly Bruce, Allen Gladfelter, Alan Moore and Hannah Means-Shannon The teams that are in charge of the "wordy bits" (as I like to call 'em) in the back of the book "Casino Nation" by Dysart, Bruce & Gladfelter dresses[...]

Alan Moore's opening instalment of a prose essay on the history of comics from a grassroots perspective also acts as an educative element in issue #1 to suggest that comics have been capable of voicing dissent all along, and should once again be recognized as a powerful medium for social change.   All in all, issue[...]

It may look like $13 to us Brits. But in the US, clicking on this link will give you the complete Watchmen for $4 on your Kindle. I think. Try it and let

It will include work by Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, Al Williamson, Jim Steranko, Alan Moore, Michael T Gilbert, Sandy Plunkett, Scott Hampton, Bill Sienkiewicz, Dave Johnson, Garry Leach, Stanley Lau, Toby Cypress, Dave Elliott, Barnaby Bagenda, Norman Felche, Alex Shiekman, Mark Kneece, Dominic Regan, Madeline Holly-Rosing, Emily Hu, Sakti Yuwono, Jessica Kholinne, Bambos Georgiou and[...]