Alan Moore Archives

Alan Moore – The Spanish Impersonation
But it was quite a surprise when one episode featured Alan Moore. In a bowler hat And then it gets really odd. There is a Spanish TV show featuring parodies of various celebrities But it was quite a surprise when one episode featured Alan Moore. In a bowler hat And then it gets really odd. [...]
Marvelman's Back… And It's A History Textbook
Okay, okay, there's also interviews with Neil Gaiman, Mick Anglo and the like ( though note, no mention of Alan Moore, Garry Leach or Dez Skinn in the solicitations) with art by a bunch of tip top folks. Newsarama also state that Marvel are publishing the classic Marvelman strips by Mick Anglo as Marvelman Family's Finest[...]
Monday Runaround – Mail, Miracleman And McLovin
The piece also looks at the firing of Mike Barr and Marv Wolfman from DC for siding with those concerned. He also catalogues Alan Moore's involvement and how it was a threat from DC that if Moore didn't co-operate with DC that they would publish Watchmen sequels without him, that was the straw that let him[...]
New NBC Show, Team Comicana Speak!
I own Alan Moore's Batman The Killing Joke which Heath Ledger cited as inspiration for his portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight Speaking of Alan Moore I own Watchmen, but then who doesn't? I own the frankly amazing Kingdom Come in Absolute format (coffee tables beware!) I own all of Joss Whedon's Astonishing[...]
2000AD In The USA
Rebellion, publishers of 2000AD and Judge Dredd Megazine have finally switched their publishing licence to Simon & Schuster, who will print books in both the UK and the US, which should make sure the books are distributed better in the US, and also are slightly cheaper.And books are starting to make it onto Amazon's preorder[...]
How The Comic Industry Went To War With Itself – And Won!
Steve Bissette recalls how Frank Miller first got a copy of DC's memo regarding the new ratings and rallied the troops from Alan Moore to John Byrne, Moebius to Walt Simonson, to add their names to an announcement in CBG against the incoming practice, without any creative consultation, and wrote a letter to publisher Jeanette[...]
JMS – The Road To Superman
Who seems to have had a bit of a thing for Superman for quite some time… and left a trail to follow. 1994: I have the last two issues of the original Supes books written by Alan Moore, and those for me are the last issues of the real Superman Who this new guy is, I dunno….   1996:   I[...]
Is The Glitch Happening Again – This Time With Barnes & Noble?
Okay, it's quite small at the moment… but right now the Alan Moore Alan Davis Captain Britain Omnibus is $10.79 at Barnes & Noble as are the Bendis and Maleev Daredevil Omnibus, Vol 2 and the Tomb of Dracula Omnibus, Vol 2 A lot of other Omnibi are sold out but… look just[...]
Lying In The Gutters – March 8th 2009
Alan Moore performing in a new London Show 2.Comparing Punisher Butterfly to Goodbye To Comics 3 Professor Xavier's Steampunk chair 4 LongBox Going Public 5 Casting Cursed Pirate Girl And a quick nod to columnists Adi Tantimedh and Si Spurrier! Thank you sirs! Top Ten Most Read Posts This Week: 1 Matchstick Middle Earth Not only that, this link to a matchstick[...]
Saturday Runaround – You Like Stan, You Really Like Stan
Boom. MooreWatch: The Guardian presents Alan Moore, Iain Sinclair and more talk about the journey through the English country as part of  a new performance piece. I've always had a soft spot for the multi-media presentation – Alan Moore. TwitWatch: Regarding yesterday's piece on the removal of captions from Milestone Forever #2. Neil Gaiman: This is bizarre Why would[...]
New London Show Features Alan Moore, Stewart Lee, Kevin Eldon… Oh And Robin Ince
Robin Ince is a British standup comedian and writer, best known right now for organising and presenting the televised Christmas show, Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People and for stand up routines that celebrate science, humanism and Darwinism. Well, he's got a new show at the end of the month called Robin Ince's School for[...]
Short 'n Curlies #31 by Si Spurrier
  Writers and artists will insist, those nomadic fuckers, on coming and going.  And audiences will insist, the poor deluded fools, on pretending the entertainment they purchase comes in the form of discrete units which they, hahaha, call Stories.  But the beauty of having an arc set in a shared universe, particularly when mixed with a[...]
How DC Co-Publisher Jim Lee Saved The Black Dossier
During which he talks about the issues with DC Comics and The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen that led to some remarkable decisions and actions on both sides. A brief summary – Alan Moore announced he was to pull his League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen series created with Kevin O'Neill from DC, as the last straw in his[...]
Talking About DC Comics And Stuff Like That
See if there's a pattern. Actions that saw Alan Moore pull his last remaining work and co-operation from the company – and even at the end saw officials ignore their own legal advice over what they could and could not publish, leading to damaged and weakened comic product. The firing of Scott Dunbier, the creator of the[...]
Fables' Mark Buckingham And Todd Klein Create "E" Poster
Following on from Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, JH Williams III and Alex Ross, his next collaboration is with Mark Buckingham, artist on Fables and, continues through the alphabet with its first letter, this time 'E'. Each Beast At The Feast is a poem about a "fabulous animal picnic" printed on Ivory Exacta Bristol Vellum paper.You can[...]
The Tenth Annual Rumour Awards – SCOOP OF THE YEAR
And the publisher of Yaoi Press being arrested for drugs offences. Creative stories such as JMS was leaving Thor, Bendis and Fraction bringing us an X-Men/New Avengers crossover, Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons teaming up on a project,  Chaykin and Romita's Shmuggy And Bimbo, Alan Moore writing new BoJeffries Saga, Carla Speed McNeil and Sarah Ryan[...]
The Marvelman Conspiracies Continue…
Especially concerning Alan Moore-related stuff. On his blog he writes that he's been trying to find absolute proof that Mick Anglo owned Marvelman before the character was sold, through Emotiv Records and John Campbell, to Marvel Comics It's certainly what the likes of Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman believe. Well, Pádraig has found a volume published in[...]
Review: Dodgem Logic #1 By Alan Moore And Friends
That's the introduction to Alan Moore's new self-published-ish fanzine, Dodgem Logic, in shops now In fact I'm told that in Alan Moore's home town of Northampton he turned up at his local comic shop, Close Encounters and dropped them off saying "does Frank Miller do that?" No, Alan, no he doesn't Frank is currently in Rome[...]
Twappy Birthday, Alan Moore
I first met Alan Moore on the occasion of his 40th birthday He was performing Birth Caul: A Shamanism Of Childhood in Newcastle, he's just decided to become a magician and we ended up in the same pub afterwards I asked him if I could publish his Twilight Of The Superheroes pitch with the copyright[...]
ComICA – 'Dark We Were And Golden Eyed' Panel Report
And so they gathered. Mike Lake, co-founder of Forbidden Planet and Titan Distributors, and early UK shop manager Derek Stokes, of Dark They Were And Golden Eyed, the first UK comic store, and Phil Clarke, who organised the first British comics convention in 1968 in Birmingham. Mike had a number of documents and pages on display, from[...]
Lantern Smackdown
From last week's Green Lantern… okay it might come off as a pwning of Alan Moore's comments a few weeks back, but that would have been a very last minute change and it's impossible for the mighty publishing machine could have reacted so quickly I understand it is, however, a refutation to some readers who had previously[...]
Remembered, Remembered The Fifth Of Novembered
Originally serialised in Warrior Magazine, this political thriller by Alan Moore and David Lloyd sees one man bring down the state through a series of small actions that, combined, create one massive change – a very fractal terrorist Pitting the extremes of Anarchy and Fascism against each other, the book believes that everyone must make[...]
Marvel Hire Vampirella Editor As New Talent Co-Ordinator
Bogart used to be editor-in-chief of Harris himself, hiring the likes of Mark Millar, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison and Warren Ellis on the Vampirella title. Similarly when Bon edited the Vampirella title, he recruited Priest and Mike Carey to the book It seems to be a new career path at Marvel – edit Vampirella. Or in Joe[...]
Alan Moore Talks Blackest Night
Kurt Amacker has continued his interview with Alan Moore at Mania While recapping his opinions, over how he negatively influenced his superhero genre as a whole, he also specifically jumps on Blackest Night. I was noticing that DC seems to have based one of its latest crossovers in Green Lantern based on a couple of eight-page[...]
Garth Ennis – When 2000AD Was The Future
A glance at the roster of talent involved is enough to take the breath away, and it should be remembered that a whole generation of readers was able to pick up almost any given issue and see a dozen of these guys at their very best. So thank you: Pat Mills, John Wagner, Gerry Finley-Day, Alan[...]
Alan Moore – Building Jerusalem
In among reports on Spanish festivals, cinematic Manchester punk, the story of Long Jeanne Silver and the All About Loud comic, was a longform frank interview from Jerry Glover with Alan Moore about Lost Girls, pornography, relationships, drugs, physics, astrophysics, the nature of reality and his upcoming novel Jerusalem It's a must for any Alan[...]
Straight Outta Northampton – Alan Moore's Hip Hop Samples
Am I the only one who thinks that Alan Moore looks a bit like Ricky Gervais in The Office when he talks to camera? "I'm a friend first, magus second, probably a street magician third…" Am I the only one who thinks that Alan Moore looks a bit like Ricky Gervais in The Office when[...]
Alan Moore To Write New BoJeffries Saga
At the ComICA League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen event last night, Alan Moore announced that he was writing new episodes of The BoJeffries Saga for Steve Parkhouse, to be published by Top Shelf comix. The BoJeffries Saga is the long lost forgotten child of Warrior magazine. While V For Vendetta and Marvelman would go on to great acclaim,[...]
Little Lulu Becomes Brazilian Manga Teen Lulu
A similar approach was taken to the recent MONICA'S GANG revamp in Brazil, and keen publishers seek to imitate that title's success. One wonders what the Simpsons' version of Alan Moore would think of it all. Teen Luluzina image copyright Classic Media Simpsons image copyright Fox. Little Lulu is being reinvented in an manga style for the[...]