Alan Moore Archives

In January, The Lass pub in Manchester will be debuting a stage play version of the Alan Moore/Ian Gibson 2000AD comic strip, The Ballad Of Halo Jones. Halo and her friends live on the Hoop – a repository for the unemployed in the 50th century, but she won't be beaten She dreams of getting out and[...]

Alan Moore presented one of the lessons at the Nine Lessons And Carols For Godless People, held at the Bloomsbury Theatre this Christmas He's interviewed back stage about what he spoke about, and brings in Doctor Dee, the origins of the universe, religion vs science all while wearing a marvellous t-shirt that seems to echo[...]

It was partially my fault, in that I'd approached Alan Moore on behalf of the BBC's Today programme several years ago. Lost Girls was to be published, Alan Moore's magnum opus with his new wife Melinda Gebbie, that told sexualised stories for classic children's literature And naturally the moral guardians were outraged Moore and Gebbie were[...]

ArchieWatch: ABC looks at changes at Archie Comics - both gay and digital... video platform video management video solutions video player It is not of

Courtesy of Gosh Comics, London, who are part and parcel of Knockabout Comics, the UK publisher of the League Of Extraordianry Gentlemen. Kevin O'Neill is

As Elke Pollard was painting Alan Moore's portrait, they reached an arrangement in which she could take his old computer keyboard (he was upgrading), signed by Alan, and sell it on eBay. And so that's what's happened It's currently at £51 (I bid £50) , and there's no guarantee it will actually work, but if you[...]

For the Occupy Comics volume, two days away from the completion of their fundraising campaign. Alan Moore and David Lloyd have not worked together since V For Vendetta, the imagery of which has been seen throughout the Occupy campaigns And while divorced professionally, they will both contribute to the Occupy Comics volume. Alan will be "contributing a[...]

 On the home front, a big site upgrade is about to commence, so keep your fingers crossed for me…. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Alan Moore Reacts To Frank Miller – "We Have Diametrically Opposing Views" "Well, Frank Miller is someone whose work I've barely looked at for the past twenty years I thought the Sin City stuff was[...]

That's a full day. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Free Comic Book Day – The New 52 To The Old Avengers 12.1 Free Comic Book Day have announced the 2012 Gold level of free comic books, that will be available in all participating stores on May the 5th next year. Alan Moore Reacts To Frank Miller – "We Have Diametrically[...]

Laura Sneddon conducted an interview with Alan Moore for the Independent newspaper that was a little on the short side Thankfully she's transcribed the whole hour long conversation and uploaded it to her website And she mentioned to me that I might like to mention it on Bleeding Cool And I did. As well as revealing[...]

It wouldn't be the first time that iconography associated with Alan Moore has escaped into the wild The blood splattered smiley face image, created by Moore and Dave Gibbons was used as advertising for the Watchmen comic by Forbidden Planet on the London Underground Leading to on one occasion, image after image of a smiley[...]

Stephan Burn writes for Bleeding Cool; Irrespective of whatever differences they may have, Grant Morrison and Alan Moore, what they do have in common is that they are both British luminaries of comics with a keen interest in esoterica and magic More than that, they both pursue theories of a meta-fictional cosmology that has threads running[...]

The fools. Alan Moore Offers an Evening's Video Conference to Kickstarter Supporters of Harvey Pekar Library Statue on Vimeo In exchange for your $99 pledge, he's offering a several hour– by invitation only– video conference from his home in the UK Viewers may ask impertinent questions To keep this affordable, split the costs with your friends and[...]

The foundations for the Vertigo line came from Swamp Thing, with the writing of Alan Moore and, later, Rick Veitch pushing the boundaries of what could be done within a superhero title progressively farther with each issue, until Veitch was fired over his plans to introduce Jesus Christ into his time travel story, with Swamp[...]

While British people of late have found a number of opportunities to get their comics signed by Alan Moore, Americans… haven't Alan shows no sign of getting a passport again and seems content to stay in Northampton, with occasional forays to London Some people have even travelled from America to London for an Alan Moore[...]

It's bigger than you are." 2002 Alan Moore: Conversations, edited by Eric L Berlatsky, is the latest volume in the Conversations with Comic Artists series published by the University Press of Mississippi; a series that explores the work of comic creators with a range of diversity spreading from Robert Crumb to Mort Walker. "[Nietzsche]'s the origin of[...]

Sometimes all you do is have to mention its name, and lots of bits spill out. Two days ago, Bleeding Cool mentioned that Watchmen prequels at DC were back

This week, UK retailers received the news that Diamond UK had cancelled the Neonomicon TPB and hardcover, collecting the series by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows, as well as the Courtyard adaptation by Moore, Burrows and Antony Johnston. Was it censorship? Her Majesty's Custom & Excise objecting to fish penis rape? It wouldn't be the first[...]

Steve Moore is no relation to Alan Moore. But he is the man who showed Alan Moore how to write comic books He created strips with Alan for Sounds Magazine and wrote strips alongside Alan's in Warrior Magazine He co-created Abslom Daak, Dalek Killer for Marvel, he wrote extensively for 2000AD and he edited the Fortean[...]

Until Alan Moore confirmed that he had been approached to, if nothing else, acquiesce to the project, in return for subsequently being granted the ownership rights to Watchmen that he had once sought, at a later date He turned the idea down, and the media attention seemed to kill the project. For a while. I was told[...]

Alan Moore's Neonomicon by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows is published by Avatar today for $19.99 Hardcover for $27.99 As well as the series, it also contains the original Courtyard adaptation by Anthoiny Johnston and Jacen Burrows years before Neonomicon was published. Brears and Lamper, two young and cocky FBI agents, investigate a fresh series of[...]

John McLaughlin, one of the four credited writers of Black Swan, is to revamp Youngblood with Rob Liefeld as part of Image's Extreme relaunch/revamp Bleeding Cool first mentioned this summer, based on the characters Liefeld first used to publish at Image Comics. Announced at the NYCC, they are: Youngblood by John McLaughlin, Jon Malin and Rob Liefeld. [...]

Title: Neonomicon TPB Creators: Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows Publisher: Avatar Comics Available: Booth #1930 High concept: What if the horrorific fantasies of HP Lovecraft were far more than that, and reflective of another reality – and one that FBI agents find themselves both investigating, and being investigated by A horror story worthy of the name, and from a[...]

Which contained, amongst stories by Warren Ellis and Mark Beachum, and James Robinson and David Mack, a Dracula story by Alan Moore and Gary Frank entitled The New European, in which Dracula is brought to America. And now Joe Harris is writing a six issue sequel from Dynamite, who bought the Harris interest in Vampirella[...]

We also had Alan Moore on the list but we decided his beard too big Anyway, my point, is, was, is, when we were discussing our female mashu up, there was only one girl on… in my mind, you. Jay: I'm quite drunk. Paul: And I say this because should I ever disappear I'd want you to[...]

And this Sunday at the Soho Arts Theatre on Dean Street, host to Alan Moore collaborators Melinda Gebbie and Kevin O'Neill with Paul Gravett. And, with Bleeding Cool, you can also get 2 for 1 on the £8 tickets Just call the box office on 0207 478 0100 and quote "publisher". You can quoite other things if[...]

The only ones i'm not buying are Resurrection Man, Suicide Squad, Red Hood and the Outlaws and Birds of Prey. Remember that column I did where I told you about how I talked to the absolutely lovely Alan Moore on the phone and he told me he was going to send me his new League of[...]

Alan Moore states, on the matter of PFC Bradley Manning, held over charges related to the Wikileaks expose; "With any legitimate trial of whistleblower Bradley Manning still being at an unspecified date in the future, it would seem that what is presently on trial here is Western culture itself When the persecution of an individual who[...]

...and he's very disappointed in you. From last week's League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969 signing at Gosh Comics, thanks to Joel

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool. Alan Moore upsets people. Emotionally, it's usually their own choice People get upset that his work in the 1980s made comics "dark," "serious," and "not fun anymore." There are comics readers who find him pretentious, arrogant, and boisterous; elevating an entertainment form onto an artistic pedestal at the expense of their[...]