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WHAT IF…? What if… Alan Moore's Fashion Beast had been made as a film? The Northampton Herald And Post asks… Alan laughs: "It might have led to a whole different world in which people would have erroneously assumed that I was obsessed with fashion rather than a world in which they erroneously assumed I was obsessed with[...]

  So, Alan Moore is signing Fashion Beast at Waterstones, Piccadilly in London tomorrow, late afternoon Waterstones has been putting out the signage. I understand that early queueage may be in order I'll be there, obviously…   So, Alan Moore is signing Fashion Beast at Waterstones, Piccadilly in London tomorrow, late afternoon Waterstones has been putting[...]

Then get yourself over to Waterstone's Piccadilly, where at 4.30pm, Alan Moore will be signing copies of Fashion Beast, the graphic novel based on the screenplay he wrote with Malcolm McLaren at the same time he was writing Watchmen. If you touch his beard, you will be cleansed of all impure thoughts. See you there? And you[...]

So he's playing to a home crowd. But still, in an industry where UK orders are generally between 5-15% of a US title's total, for Fashion Beast's UK orders to make up around 75% of the total number of orders is a little peculiar. It may indicate the UK retailers expect a rather massive boom on sales[...]

Next week sees the release of Alan Moore's Fashion Beast in hardcover and paperback, from Bleeding Cool's publisher's Avatar Press Based on his unmade screenplay for Malcolm McLaren, and using every word of dialogue in it, Fashion Beast was originally written at the same time as Watchmen Serialised for the past year, this will be[...]

Then Uber came along and it all went out of the window, sellouts, second prints, having to limit sales to one per customer, and not selling the book digitally didn't help… so look forward to that all happening again tomorrow with the release of Uber #2. There's also a Christos Gage Crossed and an Alan Moore[...]

You know, these things are  never based on Constable paintings are they? AND THE WORLD TURNS Fashion Beast continues to use those excellent panel by panel beats, that belie its origins as a screenplay but also creates a very different kind of storytelling, slow, metronomed, showing change across the page Remarkable. UNSTITCHED While in Stitched, our Mesapotamic Dead do[...]

Alan Moore and Facundo Percio's Fashion Beast #5 arrives in stores today, half-way through this complex tale that was nearly lost to the sands of time! The web of Celestine's mysterious factory spins deeper around Doll and Jonni.  Though the two despise each other, their anger and frustration over the machinations of the mystic designer draw them closer to the truth. [...]

  Alan Moore's long-lost story picks up steam at this half-way point, weaving a tale unlike any other in comics today! Here is a sneak preview of this Wednesday's Fashion Beast #5…   Alan Moore's long-lost story picks up steam at this half-way point, weaving a tale unlike any other in comics today! Here is a sneak preview of[...]

Alan Moore's Fashion Beast #4 arrives in stores today, delivering his long-lost tale after nearly thirty years! There is no nuclear winter in the seasons of the fashion world.  And while life outside of Celestine's empire is tumbling toward oblivion, within the doors of the temple to fashion Doll becomes enwrapped in the disdain and contempt of the[...]

Consult your family doctor. Fashion Beast really betrays its cinematic origins this month, the moment to moment storytelling rather than faster scene changes, decompression and widescreening in full effect Yet it gives us the kind of grotesques that only comics can really get away with. I Love Trouble is totally jonesing for a Hawkeye Initiative treatment, all[...]

If you haven't tried this gem yet, here is a sneak peek of Fashion Beast #4, due out this Wednesday. 4 out of 5 stars Comic Book Resources "…an inventive, tightly-written and enjoyable comic." "…there's a lot that can be praised…" 5 out of 5 stars The Examiner "… a great first issue…" "I definitely recommend picking this book up." Grade: A- Weekly Comic[...]

Fashion Beast #3 arrives in shops today, bringing Alan Moore's unearthed masterpiece into the limelight after nearly thirty years! Battered and bruised, Doll discovers that to defy Celestine is to look death in the eyes.  The world is on the precipice of nuclear annihilation and society focuses a vehement anger upon the extravagances of a fashion[...]

Shame the Disir couldn't bring a bottle… full of pain, tears and regrets. Fashion Beast plays its period of original creation, with fears of nuclear war and nuclear winter, all the time while seen through filters and reflection…   Justice League Dark get a new team together with Amethyst, Frankenstein and Andrew from I Vampire, otherwise known as[...]

Fashion Beast #2 is published today, the second issue that adapts Alan More's screenplay that he wrote in 1985. That he wrote it concurrently with Watchmen, was always going to give Fashion Beast an extra frisson of interest. And reading today's issue, suddenly gave me a shiver Written at the same time, published thirty years apart and[...]

Are you reading Fashion Beast? The reviews are coming in, and Fashion Beast #1 is wowing fans and critics alike. 4 out of 5 stars Comic Book Resources "…an inventive, tightly-written and enjoyable comic." "…there's a lot that can be praised…" 5 out of 5 stars The Examiner "… a great first issue…" "I definitely recommend picking this book up." Grade: A-[...]

In this post of Advance Look, we take a sneak peek at Avatar Press covers for December 2012 – shown here before anywhere else! Covered here: CALIGULA: HEART OF ROME #1 (Regular, Wrap and Gore covers) – The sequel to David Lapham's smash reimagining of the classic story of lust and power starts here FERALS VOLUME 1 (Tarde[...]

In 1985, while writing Watchmen, Alan Moore also wrote a screenplay with Malcolm McLaren and Robert Boykin, entitled Fashion Beast. Twenty-seven years later, after a few false starts, Avatar are publishing a comic book adaptation from Antony Johnston and Facundo Percio, with Alan's involvement throughout But how close an adaptation is it? Well, here's the first[...]

Avatar Press reveals the issue covers to all its new releases slated to be on store shelves in November, and live for pre-orders from comic shop retailers as of Diamond's September Previews catalog.     Stitched Volume 1 Graphic Novel Written by Garth Ennis and Adapted by Mike Wolfer Artwork by Mike Wolfer Softcover Edition, Hardcover Edition, and Signed Hardcover Edition Illustrated[...]

No one redefined the comic book landscape quite like Alan Moore in the 1980s, and the year 1985 was one of the most creative of his career.  He'd taken Saga of the Swamp Thing to new levels of horror and brilliance.  He'd introduced the world to John Constantine, a magic con man and later, Hellblazer. [...]

Earlier this month, Avatar Press announced its upcoming publication of Fashion Beast, the long-lost collaboration between Alan Moore and Malcolm McLaren (founder of the Sex Pistols) The debut issue of this 10-issue series hits stores in September. Fashion Beast was written in 1985, during one of the most celebrated periods of Moore's career He'd just begun[...]

All this was news to me, straiught from the Avatar panel at San Diego Comic Con David Hine is to write Night Of The Living Dead: Aftermath, a major new series launching in October from Avatar Press set in the George Romero zombieverse, set in the life of one woman living in in Los Angeles in[...]

We broke the news way back in April 2010 about Fashion Beast, the classic 1985 Alan Moore masterwork that never was… until now. Here's your first glimpse at the cover artwork to Fashion Beast #1 A concept commissioned by Sex Pistols creator Malcolm McLaren , Alan Moore originally wrote the story as a screenplay With his[...]