Alan Moore Archives

Watchmen Returns to the NY Times Bestseller List
The New York Times has released its latest graphic novel bestseller list, and joining Raina Telgemeier, Raina Telgemeier, Raina Telgemeier, Raina Telgemeier, Raina Telgemeier, and Raina Telgemeier is Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' seminal work Watchmen (not to be confused with Moore's fish-semenal work, Neonomicon) Watchmen takes fifth place on the list, spurred by interest[...]
Alan Moore Wants to Make You a Better Writer in his BBC Maestro Course
I have been an admirer of the work of Alan Moore, before I knew who he was, that he was the one who wrote my favourite Captain Britain and 2000AD stories When I picked up Warrior Magazine and was reading it for V For Vendetta and Marvelman, they mentioned his name and what else he wrote,[...]
Grant Morrison Reference Popped Up in HBO Watchmen
But it's not just the work of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons that has been reinterpreted by Damon Lindelof for the small screen Grant Morrison has had a fractious relationship with Alan Moore, most publically over a magazine column that ran back in the eighties While Morrison has attempted to walk those statements back a[...]
Alan Moore On His “Grouchiness” and “Cantankerousness”
Whenever I discuss the work and reputation of Alan Moore, I am usually smacked up against a wall of online commentators who tell me how gloomy he is, how morose he is, and why does he keep whining about the past Which is utterly at odds with the man I've met, occasionally interviewed and even[...]
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Now that HBO's pseudo-sequel to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' celebrated comic book series Watchmen has been unveiled to the world – it seems the world's liking what they're seeing so far from Damon Lindelof's "remix" Even die-hard Watchmen purists appear to be slowly coming around – and they should. Bleeding Cool didn't exactly pull any[...]
Why is Tom King Researching Watchmen?
pic.twitter.com/JQOS7qbx7s — Tom King (@TomKingTK) November 7, 2019 The seminal work of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (not to be confused with Moore's fish-semenal work, Neonomicon), Watchmen was produced under a supposedly creator-friendly contract that would see the rights revert to Moore and Gibbons after the book went out of print However, thanks to comics like Watchmen,[...]
New Youngblood Publisher Trolls Rob Liefeld on Twitter, Wants to Make Him Famous
"THE NEXT REVOLUTION IN COMICS" (@LlcTerrific) November 5, 2019 Terrific has still yet to announce creative teams or release dates for their comics including Youngblood, Supreme, Elementals, or Alan Moore However, thanks to the Donald Trump administration, Terrific says they are exploring the option of offering health insurance to those creative teams once they are announced. We[...]
"Watchmen" Week: [INTERVIEW]
Alan Moore negotiated a contract that would grant him and co-creator Dave Gibbons ownership rights when the book went out of print In those days, there wasn't much of a graphic novel market so collected editions of comics didn't stay in print for long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt8f1OBoOUE [Ed Note: Check out Bleeding Cool's review of Lindelof's "Watchmen" to see[...]
"Watchmen": Why Does Nobody Say This about Adrian Veidt aka Ozymandias?
If you're unfamiliar with the name, he's the man who brought Alan Moore's Watchmen to life through his masterful illustrations Considering how big Watchmen is these days, I wanted to pick his brain about the various Watchmen-related projects released in recent years. Cully Hamner, co-creator of Red, the comic book that was adapted into two movies, which has been known to[...]
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They like how it confronts racism, corruption, and gun control — things that are all top of mind in 2019. So why does the audience think Watchmen is 50% worse than the average critic? HBO They Are Comic Book Purists Ever since press releases came out for Watchmen, a chunk of Alan Moore loyalists have canned responses to why the HBO[...]