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Get Your Alan Moore-Signed V For Vendetta Masks – Occupy The Album
And they are appealing for start up costs through SponsuMe.com. The album will contain work from the likes of Ani Di Franco, Tom Morello, Tao Seeger, Billy Bragg, Sam Duckworth, Chumbawumba and a cover by Sex Pistols designer Jamie Reid. And one of the rewards is, for £175, a resign V For Vendetta mask signed by Alan[...]
Wednesday Trending Topics: More Before Watchmen
Alan Moore, on DC and Watchmen, from one of today's trending topics: "They have a whole battery of lawyers who could continue to fight this case for decades And it's not like I'm after money It's always been about the dignity and integrity of the work I just want them not to do something[...]
First Minutemen Art From Darwyn Cooke – And The Watchmen Contract
FastCoCreate has a new interview with Alan Moore talking about Watchmen – accompanied by the first art from Darwyn Cooke from the Minutemen book It seems an odd article for DC Comics to have agreed to provide such artwork for, as negative as it is, including such paragraphs as; More recently, Moore says some lawyers involved[...]
Alan Moore Talks V For Vendetta Masks To The BBC
Alan Moore has written an article for the BBC about the history and impact of the Guy Fawkes and the mask from V For Vendetta, including recent anti-Scientology and Occupy protests. He writes, regarding the re-emergence of the mask. It would seem that the various tectonic collapses deep in the structure of our economic and political systems[...]
A Tribute To Harvey Pekar, With A Little Help From Alan Moore
This weekend, Alan Moore engaged in his first mass webchat, to help promote the Kickstarter appeal to raise money for a tribute statue to the late Harvey Pekar. The two-and-a-half hour video has been made available on Vimeo, and those who enjoy it are asked to consider making a Paypal donation towards the fundraising effort (below,[...]
That Two And A Half Hour Alan Moore Webchat You Missed… (VIDEO BACK)
Dirk Manning writes for Bleeding Cool when he's not writing comics for Image Comics/Shadowline, crafting columns at that other place, or doing a million other things. If you enjoy the video below, and you think it's appropriate, you can make a Paypal donation to HPekar@aol.com towards the Harvey Pekar statue tribute, to help with the cost[...]
League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 2009 Off To The Printers
Alan Moore is engaging in a videochat with 58 people who paid $99 as part of a Kickstarter effort to raise money for a Harvey Pekar tribute statue He talks about it below. Expect fuller coverage later, but amongst the many gems the man is dropping – including stating that he is the new god of[...]
Kevin Smith Turned Down BEFORE WATCHMEN
Only passed because I'm not Alan Moore, sadly If I was Alan Moore, I'd be all over it As Kevin Smith, I'd likely just make Bubastis "big pussy" jokes and have Rorschach wet himself Hurm." Shame, I think I would have enjoyed Veidt And Silent Bubastis And as we now know, Len Wein is now writing[...]
The Ethics Of Before Watchmen
But should they? Here are a few thoughts worth considering. The Contract Alan Moore definitely argues the ethics behind the original contract he signed with DC Comics over the rights to the publication of Watchmen and V For Vendetta They allowed the company to publish the work for a reasonable amount of time while it stayed in[...]
When Alan Moore Helped Write A Series Of Watchmen Prequels
Alan Moore wrote Watchmen with Dave Gibbons And that was that. Or was it? Because, as well as making suggestions about writing a Minutemen prequel or a Tales Of The Black Freighter spinoff with Joe Orlando, he also helped out with the Watchmen DC Heroes Role Playing games from Mayfair, in both Who Watches The Watchmen,[...]
Leah Moore On Before Watchmen
Leah Moore, co-writer of the medium-redefining webcomic The Thrill Electric – and also one of Alan Moore's daughters – had something to say about the announcement today of Before Watchmen. I have to say I find it hard to disagree. Leah Moore, co-writer of the medium-redefining webcomic The Thrill Electric – and also one of Alan[...]