Alan Moore Archives

Wednesday Runaround – Your $99 Visit To Alan Moore's Home
The fools. Alan Moore Offers an Evening's Video Conference to Kickstarter Supporters of Harvey Pekar Library Statue on Vimeo In exchange for your $99 pledge, he's offering a several hour– by invitation only– video conference from his home in the UK Viewers may ask impertinent questions To keep this affordable, split the costs with your friends and[...]
Roots: Swamp Thing Then and Now
The foundations for the Vertigo line came from Swamp Thing, with the writing of Alan Moore and, later, Rick Veitch pushing the boundaries of what could be done within a superhero title progressively farther with each issue, until Veitch was fired over his plans to introduce Jesus Christ into his time travel story, with Swamp[...]
Greg Baldino On The Changing Alan Moore
It's bigger than you are." 2002 Alan Moore: Conversations, edited by Eric L Berlatsky, is the latest volume in the Conversations with Comic Artists series published by the University Press of Mississippi; a series that explores the work of comic creators with a range of diversity spreading from Robert Crumb to Mort Walker. "[Nietzsche]'s the origin of[...]
Squirrelling Out Details On Watchmen 2
Sometimes all you do is have to mention its name, and lots of bits spill out. Two days ago, Bleeding Cool mentioned that Watchmen prequels at DC were back
Neonomicon Not Cancelled In The UK
This week, UK retailers received the news that Diamond UK had cancelled the Neonomicon TPB and hardcover, collecting the series by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows, as well as the Courtyard adaptation by Moore, Burrows and Antony Johnston. Was it censorship? Her Majesty's Custom & Excise objecting to fish penis rape? It wouldn't be the first[...]
Somnium – The New Novel From Steve Moore, The New Afterword From Alan Moore
Steve Moore is no relation to Alan Moore. But he is the man who showed Alan Moore how to write comic books He created strips with Alan for Sounds Magazine and wrote strips alongside Alan's in Warrior Magazine He co-created Abslom Daak, Dalek Killer for Marvel, he wrote extensively for 2000AD and he edited the Fortean[...]
The Return Of Watchmen 2
Until Alan Moore confirmed that he had been approached to, if nothing else, acquiesce to the project, in return for subsequently being granted the ownership rights to Watchmen that he had once sought, at a later date He turned the idea down, and the media attention seemed to kill the project. For a while. I was told[...]
Avatar's Other Plug Of The Week: Neonomicon HC and TPB by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows
Alan Moore's Neonomicon by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows is published by Avatar today for $19.99 Hardcover for $27.99 As well as the series, it also contains the original Courtyard adaptation by Anthoiny Johnston and Jacen Burrows years before Neonomicon was published. Brears and Lamper, two young and cocky FBI agents, investigate a fresh series of[...]
NYCC Debut: Neonomicon TPB by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows
Title: Neonomicon TPB Creators: Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows Publisher: Avatar Comics Available: Booth #1930 High concept: What if the horrorific fantasies of HP Lovecraft were far more than that, and reflective of another reality – and one that FBI agents find themselves both investigating, and being investigated by A horror story worthy of the name, and from a[...]
Sequelising Alan Moore – Vampirella Vs Dracula by Joe Harris
Which contained, amongst stories by Warren Ellis and Mark Beachum, and James Robinson and David Mack, a Dracula story by Alan Moore and Gary Frank entitled The New European, in which Dracula is brought to America. And now Joe Harris is writing a six issue sequel from Dynamite, who bought the Harris interest in Vampirella[...]
Putting Alan Moore On The List – The Fades, Episode Two
We also had Alan Moore on the list but we decided his beard too big Anyway, my point, is, was, is, when we were discussing our female mashu up, there was only one girl on… in my mind, you. Jay: I'm quite drunk. Paul: And I say this because should I ever disappear I'd want you to[...]
Two For One On Melinda Gebbie And Kevin O'Neill This Sunday
And this Sunday at the Soho Arts Theatre on Dean Street, host to Alan Moore collaborators Melinda Gebbie and Kevin O'Neill with Paul Gravett. And, with Bleeding Cool, you can also get 2 for 1 on the £8 tickets Just call the box office on 0207 478 0100 and quote "publisher". You can quoite other things if[...]
Thirteen Years Experience by Joel Ronson #9: Watching The Superheroes
The only ones i'm not buying are Resurrection Man, Suicide Squad, Red Hood and the Outlaws and Birds of Prey. Remember that column I did where I told you about how I talked to the absolutely lovely Alan Moore on the phone and he told me he was going to send me his new League of[...]