Alan Moore Archives

Alan Moore To Guest At Northampton Comic Convention (UPDATE)
The folks at Close Encounters, a comic shop in Northampton, England, are organising a comic convention for later in the year, possibly around September time, the Northants International Comics Expo. They will confirm fifteen guests on Monday. One of those guests will be Alan Moore. Intriguingly, admission will be gained by donating a graphic novel for a local[...]
The Before Watchmen Reviews Are In. From Some People.
This, more than any other, feels too much like Alan Moore and thus, felt like a violation of Moore's ideas more so than the expansion of the Watchmen Universe. MTV: N/A CBS: N/A             Looks like midnight EST was the embargo point, for certain comic book journalists to be allowed to talk about the Before Watchmen comics they've seen[...]
A Few Thoughts Before Before Watchmen
There now follows some randomish, vaguely connected thoughts about Before Watchmen. "Did Alan Moore get screwed on his contract? Of course Lots of people get screwed, but we still have Spider-Man and lots of other heroes." – Joe Michael Straczynski.  Before Watchmen author. ""Kirby got a shitty contract too, so get over it" isn't a great tag[...]
A New Image From League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 2009 – And A Signing
Which appears to show Prospero reaching out to Orlando from his red/blue glasses 3D Blazing World, with Hyde and Peter Pan, as seen in The Black Dossier. And you can get both the newly-distributed-in-the-UK LOEG: Black Dossier and all three of the Century volumes signed at Gosh Comics in London , where Alan Moore and Kevil[...]
Friday Trending Topics: The Three Sequels Watchmen Didn't Have
An utterly fascinating account of some DC editorial history caps off the week:  "Shortly after the completion of the Watchmen series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, DC's main editors went on retreat The retreatees included Karen Berger, Mike Gold, Denny O'Neil, Mike Carlin, and Andy Helfer The brain trust returned with three "sequels" to[...]
Superman #8 – Before For The Man Who Has Everything
But I didn't. This month's issue of Superman, by Giffen and Jurgens, gives us the Wildstorm villain Helspont in his war against the Daemonites on Earth, but in doing so captured Superman, in a rather familiar fashion. In a Superman Annual back in the eighties, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons gave us a tale, For The Man[...]
So… What Will Before Watchmen Actually Be Like?
Original Watchmen editor Wein and Alan Moore fought over the original ending to Watchmen, with Moore getting his way, and now I'm told Wein exploring alternative endings to he original story in the Crimson Corsair back up strips and in the Ozymandias comic. Just as the original Tales Of The Black Freighter comics set up the[...]
Alan Moore's BBC HARDTalk Interview Now Online, Internationally
Thanks to one hard working YouTuber, we now have the Alan Moore interview with BBC's HARDTalk online for everyone to see The BBC generally don't take these kind of things down, so it should be good for a while at least… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAfXSgRxQEc[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn95a3gGaW0[/youtube] [...]
"It's Not A Problem For Anyone Other Than Me" – Alan Moore On HARDTalk
As trailed on The World At One the other day, Alan Moore appeared on BBC TV on HARDTalk, available to UK residents (and those who appear to be one) on the BBC iPlayer and to be played in full on the BBC World Service Radio, available internationally tomorrow (I'll update with a link when it's[...]