Alan Moore Archives

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[...]

Limited to 26 copies, each with a separate letter and signed by Alan Moore and sketched by Jacen Burrows, the Neonomicon Hornbook Lettered Edition comes with a certificates at $100 each  Can they last past Thursday ….?  I understand Avatar's VIP packages for Phoenix are almost sold out too…       Okay, I could have possibly phrased that[...]

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Rich Johnston There has been all sorts of fuss over the announcement, then retraction that Orson Scott Card was to write

Top Ten by Alan Moore, Gene Ha and Zander Cannon was in the initial line up of the America's Comics from DC/Wildstorm And it was great, A procedural comic book about a police precinct in a city filled with superheroes, it was funny, tragic, insanely detailed and a real joy It was like a comic book[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_tp2UQuvKY[/youtube] A video taken of the recent Nemo: Heart Of Ice signing by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill at Gosh! Comics in London. Most comic book signings, especially of creators predominently known for their superhero work feature a certain demographic White, male, of a certain size and a certain beard length[...]

As well as snippets from Len Wein and Karen Berger. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJlZUpgXQJI#![/youtube] "It's sadism and I'm getting paid for it" – Alan Moore. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze3rCvyiISA[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Emi-TqzF80[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpYPOfv08F8[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gIrDgIKpas[/youtube] "There's a book I've just been talking to Dick Giordanao about, and it's called Watchmen."  Via Very Fine Near Mint [...]

[audio:http://southlondonhardcore.podbean.com/mf/web/4ahw2u/AlanMooreandMitchJenkinsUnearthingQA.mp3] At a talk at Gosh Comics with Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins the other night about their Unearthing projects, they talked about three more short films to join Act Of Faith and Jimmy's End Upon Reflection, which will tell you the scenes between the end of Act Of Faith and the beginning of Jimmy's End[...]

This is the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Nemo, Heart Of Ice seven colour screen print, signed by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, limited to 250 and released by Gosh! Comics in London The art is exclusive for the print, and it is limited to one per person £90, copies can be ordered  from www.goshlondon.com or[...]

Here's the translated decree from the Bahrain government. The Minister of Industry and Commerce: After looking at Law number 35 of the year 2012

The original cover art for Watchmen issues #1-3 by Dave Gibbons have just sold for a total of $216,892.50 at Heritage Auctions. The cover of issue #1 sold for $155,350, the #2 cover sold for $38.837.50, and the #3 cover hammered at $22,705.00. The Watchmen 12-issue series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons from 1986 is considered[...]

The delays are a mix of things… mainly it's (a) artists are still delivering new contributions (and they're awesome), & (b) Alan Moore delivered us way more awesome than we could handle & it's been a ton of labor to work through all his awesomeness So the two issues have kinda been feeding off each[...]

Here are the first three pages of League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Nemo – Heart Of Ice, by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill Three colour unlettered pages and the first, lettered, in black and white You can read the only published review, here. That's Queen Ayesha and Leo Holly from the land of Kor from H[...]

Dave Wallace reviews Nemo: Heart of Ice Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has undergone something of an evolution over recent years After the Victoriana-laced adventure-driven romps of volumes 1 and 2, the sequels Black Dossier and Century took the series' underpinning idea – the notion that all fictional characters could coexist within[...]

Watchmen's ending reportedly caused a rift between editor Len Wein and writer Alan Moore. Has Wein taken the opportunity to address this in Before Watchmen?

– Alan Moore "I kept telling him, 'Be more original, Alan, you've got the capability, do something different, not something that's already been done!' And he didn't seem to care enough to do that." – Len Wein Reportedly, Len Wein quit the book over this Of course, he is now writing Before Watchman: Ozymandias[...]

Creation Myths When reviewing Ingmar Bergman's final film "Saraband" for American television, film critic Richard Roeper remarked that the Swedish director's work existed on another plane, above and apart from anything Hollywood was doing. The same is true for the comic books penned by Alan Moore, a fact I was happy to rediscover late last year when[...]

Music magazine Mondo Sonoro, in Spain, is reporting on the news that Alan Moore is visiting the country, after he was seen buying books about the current anti-capitalist 15-M protest movement in a comic store in Madrid The rest of the Spanish media is starting to pick up the story as well and it is[...]

These things are forever open to debate, but I'm having a hard time coming up with too many cover images from the history of American comics that I'd definitively call more iconic, more memorable, more instantly evocative of what makes comics what they are, than the cover of Watchmen #1 by Dave Gibbons, which kicked[...]

Alan Moore and Facundo Percio's Fashion Beast #5 arrives in stores today, half-way through this complex tale that was nearly lost to the sands of time! The web of Celestine's mysterious factory spins deeper around Doll and Jonni.  Though the two despise each other, their anger and frustration over the machinations of the mystic designer draw them closer to the truth. [...]

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Rich Johnston People understand Hollywood feuds exist, but find it strange similar behaviour might be exhibited in a

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Adi Tantimedh Welcome back to Bleeding Cool Magazine's in-depth conversation with Alan Moore about Lovecraft, horror, and his work modernizing the fears of the collective subconscious In this installment, we go deeper into the mind of Moore on the life and legacy of H.P Lovecraft and his literary work while examining[...]

  Alan Moore's long-lost story picks up steam at this half-way point, weaving a tale unlike any other in comics today! Here is a sneak preview of this Wednesday's Fashion Beast #5…   Alan Moore's long-lost story picks up steam at this half-way point, weaving a tale unlike any other in comics today! Here is a sneak preview of[...]

So anyway, in Animal Man #16, out today, Animal Man and his crew go up against Blackfriar Thorn, who seems to have grown a little bit. As has his beard.