Alan Moore Archives

In April last year, Bleeding Cool got the scoop that Alan Moore was to publish a collection of short stories, out next month, which will include what is anticipated as a takedown on the comic book industry, with "What We Can Know About Thunderman" which is described as a "monumental novella" that "charts the surreal[...]

Sometimes you can see what they were going for and what went wrong. Alan Moore begins our Midjourney, first with a request for the man full stop, and then for a more detailed realistic version I think the original comes closer. And asking for Alan Moore as Rorschach was just a mistake. Neil Gaiman is pretty recoignisable in[...]

Our line-up for this morning includes a wide range of topics… including Jennifer (Tatiana Maslany) facing the super-villainy of family dinner on She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Jon Moxley crushing CM Punk for the unified AEW Heavyweight title on TBS' AEW Dynamite, some Alan Moore fans not being to handle some truth, and Katherine McNamara (Walker[...]

So what does any of that have to do with comics legend Alan Moore? More than you'd think… Image: Screencaps Well, in the interest of full disclosure? This isn't really so much about Moore as it is about a certain very loud & vocal percentage of his fanbase Personally, I think Moore is one of the best[...]

And how they keep being accused of doing versions of Alan Moore in their comics Which, given past enmity between the two, might be considered a little on the nose I think Morrison might have read this blog in particular, as they directly address some of the points being made, as ell as draw parallels[...]

Alan Moore was trending this weekend Which is the kind of thing that always freaks people out, because in 2022 there's one thing that makes a comic book creator trend and no one is ready for that But not to worry, as his son-in-law John Reppion tweeted "Alan Moore is trending on Twitter Alan Moore is[...]

He also co-created John Dee, Doctor Destiny with Mike Sekowsky for Justice League of America #5 in 1961. Stephen Bissette,  John Totleben and Rick Veitch are co-creators of John Constantine with Alan Moore, who first appeared in Swamp Thing #37 and DC Sampler #3 in 1984/85. Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson created Matt Cable who became Matthew[...]

In a tweet directed at the author, Gaiman was asked if he spoke with Alan Moore about changing John Constantine's gender for the adaptation FYI: Moore, Stephen R Bissette, Rick Veitch, and John Totleben created the character, who first appeared in Swamp Thing #37 (June 1985) Coleman's Johanna Constantine is based on both the original[...]

We've talked about The Show, the movie by Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins available for free on Amazon Freevee in the UK and paid streaming services elsewhere But there's one aspect I had never touched upon for spoilerage purposes, but now may be a reason for people to see the film There's a very specific reference[...]

After a very long wait, Avatar Press, the owners of Bleeding Cool, have told us that finally, finally, they have both the Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows collections of the comic book series Neonomicon and its prequel/sequel  Providence is back in print The two books reincorporate, rework and reappraise the horror work of H.P[...]

And one of them – albeit only in the UK so far – is Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins' movie, The Show I just watched it again on my TV using the Amazon Prime Video app, though I currently don't subscribe to Amazon Prime I watched the whole thing again, for free, with just a[...]

In April last year, Bleeding Cool got the scoop on Alan Moore's new publishing plans, a collection of short stories called Illuminations and the beginnings of a five novel series called Long London At the time we wrote; Illuminations, his collection of short stories, is to be published in September 2022. The first-ever short story collection from the[...]

And it happens to be narrated by one comic book creator, film writer, musician and performance artist Alan Moore The whole four-episode series Only one episode, And So It Begins, is available now, but that's enough to be going on with, right? What with Alan Moore doing a BBC Maestro course, is he becoming the face[...]

As part of a massive auction of premium comic books and original artwork at Heritage Auctions, taking place today, with Bleeding Cool covering only a tiny smattering of it, we have one of those rarest things, a page from Watchmen #1 by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons An iconic full shot of the Nite Owl[...]

As part of a massive auction of premium comic books and original artwork at Heritage Auctions, two pages of Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's The Killing Joke will go under the hammer today To see one page for sale is a rare thing, to see two pages such pages sell is unheard of And such[...]

And for Gunn, it's all about Watchmen co-creator Alan Moore and how he must've felt when his original pitch to use the Charlton line of heroes that DC Comics acquired (like Peacemaker) for "Who Killed the Peacemaker?" was turned down because DC didn't want the characters to be left "either dead or dysfunctional." But instead[...]

Originally serialised by Dez Skinn's Warrior Magazine in 1982, DC Comics republished, coloured and concluded V For Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd in 1988 A modicum hit at the time, it has remained a perennial seller for DC Comics, and they got a Wachowski movie out of it, which further spread the imagery[...]

He also told me that a publication date had been set for The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic by Alan Moore and the late Steve Moore Announced in 2008, it combined the title of the old British comic book annuals that were always "bumper" books, full of fun, excitement and thrills, with the[...]

I wonder if he could have taken any lessons from Alan Moore? BBC Maestro in partnership with BBC Studios, has been running a series of courses taught by those deemed the most experienced creators in the world through a series of digital tutorials Now including a six-hour-long tutorial by Alan Moore which can be purchased[...]

The story follows Alan Moore's conclusion his run He picked Neil Gaiman to follow him, and told him that he ended it with the world solved, no crime, no global problems, everyone happy, and no point in telling any more stories in the world Gaiman took that and ran with it There were three planned[...]

And as part of the sales pitch for the book, Gibbons will talk about how his collaboration with Alan Moore came to an end Moore has spoken about this before, including to Bleeding Cool's Adi Tantimedh, now Gibbons will be telling his version. Dave Gibbons' Confabulation: An Anecdotal Autobiography For 2022 This comprehensive, in-depth, and personal journey through[...]

It was also tragically cut short as Alan Moore stopped working for 2000AD And no one has dared try and continue it since The Ballad Of Halo Jones by Alan Moore and Ian Gibson was an ambitious science-fiction space opera, inspired by the works of Harry Harrison and Robert Heinlein that was also 2000AD's first[...]

Today sees Heritage Auction lists, individually, all twelve issues of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen, the comic book that changes the medium Once seen as the holy of holies And for a comic that I picked up in the bargain bins in the early nineties, every issue selling for above its cover price –[...]

1963 was an American six-issue comic book limited series written by Alan Moore in 1993, with art by his then-frequent collaborators Steve Bissette, John Totleben, and Rick Veitch, with Dave Gibbons, Don Simpson, and Jim Valentino working on the series Image Comics published the series and it was meant to culminate with a 1963 Annual[...]

The comic book by Alan Moore and David Lloyd that tells a 1984-inspired story of anarchy vs fascism, Moore famously was born and lives in Northampton, England – the university is his local. It joins 1984 on a course list for a module called Identity Under Construction For which students are told that the module "addresses[...]

The comic book is one disowned by its writer, Alan Moore, remastered by its artist, Brian Bolland, and is considered one of the most influential Batman comics of all time Even this week, in the latest Batman/Catwoman, there's a scene where Catwoman talks to the Joker about not just hanging about in the rain laughing[...]

He has many tales to tell, including meeting a young Alan Moore to talk Superman Bob Beerbohm writes, with permission to republish; During Alan Moore's first (and evidently only) San Diego Comic-Con in the mid 1980s he came up to me in my booth first buying copies of Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #63 & #69 from[...]

On New Year's Day, Bleeding Cool mentioned an upcoming novella by Alan Moore, What We Can Know About Thunderman, included in his upcoming prose collection Illuminations to be published later this year in the US and in the UK, "What We Can Know About Thunderman," which charts the surreal and Kafkaesque history of the comics industry over[...]

In the Illumninations collection of short stories by Alan Moore, to be published later this year in the US and in the UK, one particular story, What We Can Know About Thunderman, may be of specific interest to his traditional readers Described as a "monumental novella", the story "charts the surreal and Kafkaesque history of[...]

And it seems they are about to add Alan Moore. Lift up your quills and welcome one of the wafers most gifted storytellers His worlds and characters dazzle with their originality, and his stories are filled with energy and intrigue – V for Vendetta Watchmen and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to name out a few[...]