Alan Moore Archives

On February the 5th, there will be a protest "read in" at the St James Library in Northampton with Alan Moore, that follows a protest held there tomorrow from midday to 2pm. The library, along with many others, is suffering from local council budget cuts as the British government has been reducing council funding Alan Moore[...]

Remember, remember, the fifth of February… That's when Alan Moore will be speaking at a reading event, part of an event to campaign against the planned potential closure of the St James Library in his home town of Northampton. The library is one of eight that may be closed by the local council as part of spending[...]

She talks about her collection of work by Alan Moore, Joe Sacco and more, V For Vendetta, Maus and Palestine in particular as well as promoting famed Icelandic comic shop Nexus and the city library's stock. She's used her (very public) Twitter feed to promote these books too; Birgittaj: this brightmas/christmas/Xmas i wrapped up a book[...]

Last night, Scalped and Spider-Man/Wolverine writer Jason Aaron posted a piece on Comic Book Resources entitled "The Year I Stopped Caring About Alan Moore" where he reacted to an interview by Adi Tantimedh with Alan Moore published by Bleeding Cool in September last year. During the interview, Alan said; When Dave Gibbons phoned me up, he[...]

There's nothing quite like the Little Bleeders of Bleeding Cool to crowdsource a comic analysis. Take Neonomicon #3 by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows I'd already posted about some of the themes and images in the comic But I hadn't seen the half of it Thankfully the commentators were happy to step up Here are a[...]

Todd Klein presents some of his lettering work from the upcoming League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: 1969 as well as some of the working practices

This is The Bleeding Cool ComicChron Robot speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I

Thermochromatic paint apparently. And no it's not quite a series of dark blobs moving around like mercury through a thin membrane in perfect symmetry. But

If you have access to Hulu, you can watch the entirety of the Alan Moore documentary, The Mindscpe Of Alan Moore. If you haven't, like me, you can't Sorry. UPDATE: And from Snag Films If you have access to Hulu, you can watch the entirety of the Alan Moore documentary, The Mindscpe Of Alan Moore. If you haven't,[...]

April next year will see the publication of Alan Moore: Storyteller, a hardcover volume by Strangehaven's Gary Spencer Millidge with a foreword by fantasy author extraordinaire, and central influence on Alan Moore's work, Michael Moorcock. Millidge was the author/editor/publisher of Portrait Of An Extraordinary Gentlemen, created for Alan's fiftieth birthday (which I contributed a page to)[...]

There are spoilers for Neonomicon #3 below. Neonomicon#3 leads off with an FBI interview as the crew tries to find their missing two agents, Brears and

Tomorrow in the USA and Canada and on Thursday in the UK, snow willing, comes the third part of Alan Moore's final graphic novel (for now anyway) with Crossed's Jacen Burows, Neonomicon. If your shop is willing to stock it that is Rape, torture and sea monsters Not a pretty combination. Here's a preview taster. [...]

It does appear that, thanks to V For Vendetta, the Guy Fawkes imagery and V logo is becoming a true symbol for the 21st century. This was a scene outside

The upcoming issue of Alan Moore's Dodgem Logic is a Christmas special, nay a Christmas Annual, with Beano-style lettering to boot And Kevin O'Neill gives us a Santa with the letters slightly rearranged for the cover Ho ho ho. The magazine will also begin Harry Hill writer David Quantick and underground cartoonist Edwin Pouncey, a.k.a[...]

I am weeping. MooreWatch: The documentary The Mindscape Of Alan Moore hits iTunes Here's a preview. This is The Bleeding Cool ComicChron Robot speaking I come for your women But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online One day I will rule Until that day, read on. Irrational Interviews Episode 5: Zack Snyder a discussion of[...]

Well he does have the beard for it. According to the Northampton Chronicle, Alan Moore is using the profits from his Dodgem Logic magazine to donate three hundred Christmas hampers to Northampton residents living in sheltered housing located in Spring Boroughs, the area he grew up in, and to the Northampton homeless drop-in centre through[...]

The Comic Book Alliance, basically the UK equivalent of the CBLDF and HERO with a proactive role improving the lot of the comics, has got a huge amount of very desirable material up for auction. First on the block is a role, both name and likeness, in an upcoming issue of Batman, Inc, courtesy of Grant[...]

From an anonymous internet bidder, the first page of Watchmen has sold for $33,640. 21 bidders and no reserve. This is the highest a Watchmen page has

With Neonomicon in the shops and Fashion Beast on the way, it's probably quite a good time to be Alan Moore right now… Anyway, here's a birthday tribute from Brian Bolland from the book The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore, published for his fiftieth birthday and recently republished. Mr Moore isn't one for the internet[...]

A few eBay listings that might be worth bringing to your attention. First up is an original piece of art by Dave Sim featuring Lady Gaga and Cerebus

He co-created The Ballad Halo Jones with Alan Moore He's worked on comics from Judge Dredd to Mister Miracle. And now he has a new project Lifeboat The first issue is complete, he's working on the second, and he's looking for a publisher. Here are some teaser panels to give you an idea of flavour and tone…[...]

I have touched this page. Up for sale, right now is Watchmen Page One, Issue One, with Rorschach's monologue and the move from smily face button up, up,

On BBC 2 this Thursday (England and Wales only, Scotland can go swivel), Alan Moore will be bringing The Culture Show cameras to explore the "biggest public art exhibition of Austin Osman Spare for over 50 years". Spare was an Edwardian artist and practicing magician Moore seeks to show why he has been ignored by[...]

Alan Moore volunteered to take over as writer, but I stupidly stuck with the writer Dick gave me I saw it as a matter of loyalty Having been a freelancer for about 10 years (moonlighting as a copy editor when I worked in book publishing), I couldn't warm up to the idea of firing a[...]

Next year sees the second volume of Century, the three volume League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen series by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill And in this chapter, published by Top Shelf and Knockabout, our Victorian pulp heroes hit the sixties The solicitation reads; CHAPTER TWO takes place almost sixty years later in the psychedelic daze of Swinging[...]

Casey Lau writes for Bleeding Cool. I've been reading Alan Moore's work since I worked at a comic shop in Vancouver and reading Watchmen monthly as it came out totally destroyed my love for The Uncanny X-Men even though I probably only understood half of it. Rich Johnston, proprietor of one of my favorite comic book blogs[...]

Number Crunching wishes to reward the generous. Issue number: 5 Cost: £3.50 ($4.80) Pages: 78 Cost per page: 4 pence (6 cents) Alan Moore's pages: 11, but his nicotine stained fingerprints are everywhere. Pages by Tom Pickard from his upcoming autobiography: 12 Pages by Melibnda Gebbie on her time working on Where The Wind Blows: 4 Panels per page on Farmer and Healey's[...]

Many people seem to believe that Alan Moore hates films He just doesn't like a lot of them these days And he's not keen on people taking what he once wrote as a comic and turning it into a film without his permission And especially then stating that they have his permission. Anyway, the new issue[...]

And making it a San Diego 2010 Exclusive. Negotiations over the rights to the Alan Moore/Garry Leach/Alan Davis/Chuck Austen/Rick Vietch/Jon Totleben/Neil Gaiman/Mark Buckingham run on the book from the nineteen eighties have still not been fully nailed down, so the odds are that the character will be based on the original Mick Anglo designs rather than[...]

A couple of weeks ago, Checker Publishing announced to comic book stores that it had chosen no longer to allow Diamond Comics Distributors and Diamond Book distributors to sell its comics and graphic novels. Checker have specialised in reprinting classic works, from Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon to Alan Moore's Supreme, although their schedule has dropped off[...]