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Pop Culture Hounding Alan Moore And A Cup Of Tea
Chris Thompson has been talking to Alan Moore ahead of his appearance this weekend at the N.I.C.E comics convention Tickets still available… In a very special episode of the PCH podcast, I chat with legendary creator Alan Moore ahead of this weekend's N.I.C.E Convention in Kettering. Convention organiser Jeff Chahal from Close Encounters in Northampton also stops[...]
Alan Moore – "I'm Going To A Comic Convention By Accident"
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQHRjocfWb4[/youtube] Alan Moore talks about attending N.I.C.E., a comic convention near Northampton this weekend Tickets still available, and Bleeding Cool's Tom Huxley will be in attendance. And here's that Withnail And I clip to refresh your memory… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD2P9Px3enI[/youtube] [...]
Did Doctor Who Swipe Alan Moore's Captain Britain?
It was absolutely blatant. But it's another Alan Moore comic being referenced here, one with a character designed by Alan Davis What about The Gunslinger and… The Fury? Both cyborgs, both with a gun for an arm, both with a wide mechanical eye, all withlight shining from them… And they see the world in a similar fashion[...]
Advance Look: Covers December 2012
In this post of Advance Look, we take a sneak peek at Avatar Press covers for December 2012 – shown here before anywhere else! Covered here: CALIGULA: HEART OF ROME #1 (Regular, Wrap and Gore covers) – The sequel to David Lapham's smash reimagining of the classic story of lust and power starts here FERALS VOLUME 1 (Tarde[...]
TRIPWIRE: Alan Moore In 2002
And this week's regular delve into its archive is our chat with comics legend Alan Moore (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Watchmen) the week before he appears at the Northampton International Comic Expo, published in TRIPWIRE Volume 4 #11, way back in June/ July 2002… [issuu width=420 height=300 backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=120916080340-8a2f29e70ecf4246ad4152216cd37802 name=alan_moore_tripwire_2001_feature username=richjohnston tag=2001 unit=px v=2] [...]
Is Marvelman Closer Than We Think?
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The Very Definition Of A Nerd World Problem
And here it is. Saturday Panel Time Length Storytelling- A meeting of mind with Alan Davis 11.20pm 40 mins Stormdogs With David Hine & Doug Braithwaite 12.30pm 40 mins Panel to Screen with Greg Staples, Adi Granov & Charlie Adlard 1.30pm 40 mins Jack Kirby Influences in modern comics with John Watson, Doug Braithwaite, Shaky Kane and Russell Payne from the Jack Kirby Museum 2.30pm 40 mins Erotic Art and Censorship in[...]
Did You Know There's A New Alan Moore Comic Coming Out Today?
Music, fashion and something very very nasty. This is how Alan Moore describes it; Since Malcolm McLaren first suggested that I write a screenplay based on his notion of marrying the strange and isolated life of Christian Dior with the fable Beauty and the Beast, I've often wondered what such an unlikely concept would have looked like[...]
Fashion Beast – The Comic And The Screenplay
In 1985, while writing Watchmen, Alan Moore also wrote a screenplay with Malcolm McLaren and Robert Boykin, entitled Fashion Beast. Twenty-seven years later, after a few false starts, Avatar are publishing a comic book adaptation from Antony Johnston and Facundo Percio, with Alan's involvement throughout But how close an adaptation is it? Well, here's the first[...]
twilight of the super heroes
It was to have been Alan Moore's great DC Comics Event, that would crossover with all manner of DC's books The Twilight Of The Superheroes A story about the end times of the DCU, a dark and apocalyptic future for the DC Earth, the superheroes and villains split into different Houses, with John Constantine given[...]
First Look at Avatar Covers for November
Avatar Press reveals the issue covers to all its new releases slated to be on store shelves in November, and live for pre-orders from comic shop retailers as of Diamond's September Previews catalog.     Stitched Volume 1 Graphic Novel Written by Garth Ennis and Adapted by Mike Wolfer Artwork by Mike Wolfer Softcover Edition, Hardcover Edition, and Signed Hardcover Edition Illustrated[...]
Did Alan Moore Turn Down Two Million To Bless The Watchmen Prequels?
But Alan Moore appears to believe he was offered a lot more In an interview back in May at the Nottingham Contemporary, he told the Left Lion website; Well, they asked me if they could give me a huge amount of money to bring out these Watchmen prequel comics – which they were going to do[...]
The Comic Book Convention With A Theme Park – And Alan Moore
You know, the first comic con Alan Moore is going to in twenty-five years Tickets still available David decided to tell us why; Jeff Chahal runs the Close Encounters comics shops in Bedford and Northampton and is known for hosting some of the coolest signing sessions in the UK Several months back Jeff told me about[...]
Bleeding Cool Magazine #1 To Hit In October
Including my listing and profile of the One Hundred Most Powerful People In The Comics Industry (I can feel the heat of the flame wars already), a full length interview with Alan Moore which should make for an interesting New York Comic Con, a mini-price guide, and tons of articles, reports, features and galleries on[...]
Alan Moore And Mitch Jenkins' Unearthing Book Out For Christmas
After the original novella, the box set album, the planned movie and the various live performances, we finally get the photo-manipulated adaptation of Alan Moore's Unearthing by Mitch Jenkins. Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout Comics are publishing three versions of the book. A signed and numbered edition limited to 300 copies which can be preordered directly today[...]
Fashion Beast: The Missing Piece of an Alan Moore Puzzle
No one redefined the comic book landscape quite like Alan Moore in the 1980s, and the year 1985 was one of the most creative of his career.  He'd taken Saga of the Swamp Thing to new levels of horror and brilliance.  He'd introduced the world to John Constantine, a magic con man and later, Hellblazer. [...]
A1 To Relaunch Digitally, This Week (UPDATE)
For the fourth (I think) time. Originally spinning out of Dave's time at Quality Communications working on Warrior, he and Garry Leach created Atomeka, to publish A1, containing the creator owned work of Alan Moore, Garry Leach, Brian Bolland, Warren Ellis, Steve Pugh, Ted McKeever, Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, Phil Winslade and many more, in a[...]
Antony Johnston Provides Insight Into Long-Lost Alan Moore Project, Fashion Beast
Earlier this month, Avatar Press announced its upcoming publication of Fashion Beast, the long-lost collaboration between Alan Moore and Malcolm McLaren (founder of the Sex Pistols) The debut issue of this 10-issue series hits stores in September. Fashion Beast was written in 1985, during one of the most celebrated periods of Moore's career He'd just begun[...]
Top Shelf Panel: Eddie Campbell Confirms From Hell Companion For March 2013
Joshua Stone reports from the Top Shelf panel: At the Top Shelf panel, Eddie Campbell announced that From Hell Companion from he and Alan Moore is ready to go and will be released in March 2013 Campbell describes is as From Hell from another angle He said it is 288 pages long and will be structured[...]
Night Of The Living Dead Aftermath To Be Avatar's Big Hallowe'en Event
All this was news to me, straiught from the Avatar panel at San Diego Comic Con David Hine is to write Night Of The Living Dead: Aftermath, a major new series launching in October from Avatar Press set in the George Romero zombieverse, set in the life of one woman living in in Los Angeles in[...]
The Re-Reconstructed Tales Of The Black Freighter From Watchmen
Alan Moore acquesced as long as his name wasn't on the book – only to discover bthat no one's name was going to be on the book, apart from the fictitious creators He then asked that there be a note stating that he had nothing to do with the publication of comic And suddenly… the[...]
The Look Of The Alan Moore And Tim Perkins Black Dossier Vinyl Record
So I picked up the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier in its reissued version from Gosh Comics today (they are having a Fatale signing and launch with Sean Phillips, as well as an exhibition of his original art) and indeed it comes with a vinyl single record, recorded by Alan Moore and Tim[...]
Saturday Runaround –  All Day, All Night, All Alan Moore
The fools. Minimum Carnage | Spider-Man | News | Marvel.com Find out more Sunday, July 15 at the Amazing Spider-Man panel, 12:30PM PST, during Comic Con International 2012! ICv2 – First Half Comic Sales Up 18% Sales of comics and graphic novels in comic stores were up 18.16% for the first half of 2012 compared to the first half[...]