Alan Moore Archives

Librarian Reverses Board's Decision To Put Neonomicon Back On The Shelves
Last year, Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows' Neonomicon was withdrawn from a library in Greenville after a teenage girl using an adult library card took it out and her mother strenuously objected. Later the library board all read the graphic novel and voted for it to be returned to the shelves End of? No. The Head Librarian[...]
Neil Gaiman Sings Fireball XL5
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SV1yX-Kp5c[/youtube] At an Amanda Palmer New Year's concert, Neil Gaiman sang the theme tune to Gerry Anderson's Fireball XL5. When he mentioned this on Twitter, I wondered if they had a copy of the Alan Moore Black Dossier vinyl record which used it as a base[...]
Alan Moore, "An Embittered Monstrous Figure" – Behind The Scenes Of Jimmy's End
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyzGMkryc_k[/youtube] Behind the scenes of Jimmy's End with Frank Metterton, playing Alan Moore. "It might be possible to actually create a world of the imagination, a world of dreams if you will, and then to export things from imagination into the real world." Here are the original films as well… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrXU-BYTHjc[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrXU-BYTHjc[/youtube] [...]
Alan Moore To Create A Social Network?
Tomorrow's Observer newspaper will feature a sprawling interview and feature with Alan Moore. In which we learn about his great-grandfather, Ginger Vernon, who "used to trade caricatures for pints in the pub." He hates being coerced, whatever the financial incentive, and it may well be something in the blood His great-grandfather Ginger, the hard-drinking cartoonist, was at[...]
Neonomicon Banned In South Carolina
Back in June, a South Carolina library pulled their copy of Neonomicon from the adultbookshelves, after a 14 year old girl withdrew it using her mother's
Friday Runaround – More Insidious Than Syphilis No More!
THE WIRED Wired runs Alan Moore's essay from Occupy Comics; The field of comics, formerly regarded as a more insidious threat to young minds and public morality than syphilis, has currently attained a level of propriety which it seems anxious to maintain Having at last apparently become a critically-accepted and occasionally lucrative component of the entertainment industry,[...]
Rick Veitch's Cover For The Return Of Arthur
And includes an appreciation from Alan Moore… GIANT-SIZED Broadsheet newspaper Sixteen gigantic 15″ x 22.75″ pages (8 color, 8 b/w) Available Dec 22, 2012 After a four-year sabbatical, beloved revolutionary sweetheart Arthur returns to print, renewed, refreshed, reinvigorated and in a bold new format: pages as tall and wide as a daily newspaper on compostable newsprint, with ads only[...]
Avatar Plug of the Week – Alan Moore's FASHION BEAST #4
Alan Moore's Fashion Beast #4 arrives in stores today, delivering his long-lost tale after nearly thirty years! There is no nuclear winter in the seasons of the fashion world.  And while life outside of Celestine's empire is tumbling toward oblivion, within the doors of the temple to fashion Doll becomes enwrapped in the disdain and contempt of the[...]
Avatar Plug of the Week: Fashion Beast #4 Sneak Preview
It's wonderful." "There's not really a book like this on the stands right now." 4 out of 5 stars iFanboy "Alan Moore's masterpiece that he's been hiding all these years has finally been released!" Reviews have been excellent for this nuclear winter tale of a world obsessed with fashion A story first written by Alan Moore in the mid-eighties with[...]
Who Will Be The First Cosplayer As Alan Moore's Mr Metterton? (SPOILERS)
Bleeding Cool ran in its entirety the first film produced from a screenplay by Alan Moore, Jimmy's End and its prequel, Act Of Faith, over the weekend Hell, we'll run them again now They are both part of a larger project now known as The Show. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrXU-BYTHjc#![/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ540_MGBZU[/youtube] You can also see the longer film on the Jimmy's[...]
Fanboy Rampage: Grant Morrison Vs Alan Moore, Round Eight
I recently wrote an article for Bleeding Cool Magazine #2, entitled Comic Book Feuds, looking at some of the more prominent comic industry feuds of late, and they included Alan Moore and Grant Morrison. I may have to do some last minute editing however, as Laura Sneddon has compiled for The Beat, a fisking of a[...]
Jimmy's End, The New Film By Alan Moore And Mitch Jenkins, In Full
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrXU-BYTHjc#![/youtube] Today, Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins' new film, Jimmy's End, has been released online, for free It can be seen, above I recommend the biggest screen you can lay your hands on. It's part of a series of projects from the pair revolving around the same narrative, characters and location[...]
Dubai Bans V For Vendetta Mask
The Guy Fawkes mask was a traditional British item, often used to create Guy Fawkes effigies for kids to beg for money with, and to be burnt on bonfires.
BC Mag #1: Modernizing Lovecraft: An In-Depth Interview With Alan Moore
The prospect of adapting Lovecraft's novel AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS into a movie is considered a cinematic Holy Grail by filmmakers and horror fans alike. Alan Moore is one of the latest in the line of writers to tackle Lovecraft's mythos, but what sets THE COURTYARD and NEONOMICON apart is the degree to what[...]
My Favourite Tribute To Ray Zone
From an interview with Alan Moore, talking about the Black Dossier and DC Comics. we planned this spectacular 3-D section for the finale We thought originally there was only one person who could accomplish this, let alone understand this, and that is, of course, Ray Zone We'd approached Ray He was very eager and interested in[...]
A Step Nearer To Twilight Of The Superheroes?
But the evidence keeps mounting up. That, step by step, DC Comics is laying the groundwork to run Twilight Of The Superheroes, the Alan Moore pitch that they bought, lock, stock and two smoking Benson And Hedges, before Moore fell out with the company and withdrew his labour. But DC Comics owns the pitch, fair and square. The[...]
Teaser For Alan Moore's New Film, Jimmy's End
Bleeding Cool has been reporting on the production of Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins' new film, Jimmy's End, for some time. This teaser is our first moving glimpse of the thirty minute film from Lex Projects, to be made available on 25th November, with a prologue film Act Of Faith on 19th November, around Alan's 59th[...]
Avatar Plug of the Week: Alan Moore's Fashion Beast #3
Fashion Beast #3 arrives in shops today, bringing Alan Moore's unearthed masterpiece into the limelight after nearly thirty years! Battered and bruised, Doll discovers that to defy Celestine is to look death in the eyes.  The world is on the precipice of nuclear annihilation and society focuses a vehement anger upon the extravagances of a fashion[...]
Avatar Plug of the Week: Fashion Beast Reviews and Preview
It's wonderful." "There's not really a book like this on the stands right now." 4 out of 5 stars iFanboy "Alan Moore's masterpiece that he's been hiding all these years has finally been released!" Fashion Beast #2 is in stores today: Alan Moore and Malcolm McLaren's historic re-imaging of Beauty and the Beast continues!  Doll doesn't fit in anywhere.  And[...]
N.I.C.E: The Alan Moore Q&A
We ran the first half of Alan Moore's talk yesterday at the N.I.C.E comics convention, as well as Tom Huxley's commentary Now the Q&A has also been put online, thanks to stereoket Enjoy the next hour, with part one and part two. We ran the first half of Alan Moore's talk yesterday at the N.I.C.E[...]
Sunday Trending Topics: Alan Moore
comic book convention yesterday, Alan Moore announced his new comic book for Avatar Press, Providence, a follow-up to Neonomicon where he explores the inspiration behind the Lovecraftian mythos. And much more from his N.I.C.E appearance. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Stan Lee Pulls Out Of Future Appearances Due To "A Very Serious Circumstance" Yesterday, Wizard World sent round the following[...]
Questions And Answers With Alan Moore At N.I.C.E.
for Bleeding Cool.  Last night, Alan Moore made his first comics convention appearance in over twenty years. Entry to his talk at N.I.C.E required a donation of a graphic novel to Northampton libraries, and by the end of the day they'd collected enough graphic novels to fill up several bookshelves (My own copy of Essential X-Men 2,[...]
An Hour Listening To Alan Moore At N.I.C.E.
Comic Convention saw Alan Moore host a room full of people who had donated graphic novels to the local library, matched by Northampton store Close Encounters. The first hour, before the question and answer session, in which Alan talks about the importance of reading, especially reading as a child, the great stories of anti-Norman terrorist Hereward[...]
Alan Moore Announces His New HP Lovecraft Comic Book, Providence
comic book convention yesterday, Alan Moore announced his new comic book for Avatar Press, Providence, a follow-up to Neonomicon where he explores the inspiration behind the Lovecraftian mythos. A ten part series, which Moore described three times as there to pay his tax bill, it will be set in 1919 and star the author HP Lovecraft[...]
A Very N.I.C.E. Convention
Though its special guest Alan Moore was undoubtedly the main draw for most of those attending, there's plenty else besides – just like any con really – perhaps a bit small in scale compared to other cons I've been to, but by the same token emphasising quality above quantity, and bringing with it a feeling[...]