Alan Moore Archives

Here's the translated decree from the Bahrain government. The Minister of Industry and Commerce: After looking at Law number 35 of the year 2012

The original cover art for Watchmen issues #1-3 by Dave Gibbons have just sold for a total of $216,892.50 at Heritage Auctions. The cover of issue #1 sold for $155,350, the #2 cover sold for $38.837.50, and the #3 cover hammered at $22,705.00. The Watchmen 12-issue series by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons from 1986 is considered[...]

The delays are a mix of things… mainly it's (a) artists are still delivering new contributions (and they're awesome), & (b) Alan Moore delivered us way more awesome than we could handle & it's been a ton of labor to work through all his awesomeness So the two issues have kinda been feeding off each[...]

Here are the first three pages of League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Nemo – Heart Of Ice, by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill Three colour unlettered pages and the first, lettered, in black and white You can read the only published review, here. That's Queen Ayesha and Leo Holly from the land of Kor from H[...]

Dave Wallace reviews Nemo: Heart of Ice Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has undergone something of an evolution over recent years After the Victoriana-laced adventure-driven romps of volumes 1 and 2, the sequels Black Dossier and Century took the series' underpinning idea – the notion that all fictional characters could coexist within[...]

Watchmen's ending reportedly caused a rift between editor Len Wein and writer Alan Moore. Has Wein taken the opportunity to address this in Before Watchmen?

– Alan Moore "I kept telling him, 'Be more original, Alan, you've got the capability, do something different, not something that's already been done!' And he didn't seem to care enough to do that." – Len Wein Reportedly, Len Wein quit the book over this Of course, he is now writing Before Watchman: Ozymandias[...]

Creation Myths When reviewing Ingmar Bergman's final film "Saraband" for American television, film critic Richard Roeper remarked that the Swedish director's work existed on another plane, above and apart from anything Hollywood was doing. The same is true for the comic books penned by Alan Moore, a fact I was happy to rediscover late last year when[...]

Music magazine Mondo Sonoro, in Spain, is reporting on the news that Alan Moore is visiting the country, after he was seen buying books about the current anti-capitalist 15-M protest movement in a comic store in Madrid The rest of the Spanish media is starting to pick up the story as well and it is[...]

These things are forever open to debate, but I'm having a hard time coming up with too many cover images from the history of American comics that I'd definitively call more iconic, more memorable, more instantly evocative of what makes comics what they are, than the cover of Watchmen #1 by Dave Gibbons, which kicked[...]

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. [...]

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Rich Johnston People understand Hollywood feuds exist, but find it strange similar behaviour might be exhibited in a

Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Adi Tantimedh Welcome back to Bleeding Cool Magazine's in-depth conversation with Alan Moore about Lovecraft, horror, and his work modernizing the fears of the collective subconscious In this installment, we go deeper into the mind of Moore on the life and legacy of H.P Lovecraft and his literary work while examining[...]

  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[...]

So anyway, in Animal Man #16, out today, Animal Man and his crew go up against Blackfriar Thorn, who seems to have grown a little bit. As has his beard.

Last year, Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows' Neonomicon was withdrawn from a library in Greenville after a teenage girl using an adult library card took it out and her mother strenuously objected. Later the library board all read the graphic novel and voted for it to be returned to the shelves End of? No. The Head Librarian[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SV1yX-Kp5c[/youtube] At an Amanda Palmer New Year's concert, Neil Gaiman sang the theme tune to Gerry Anderson's Fireball XL5. When he mentioned this on Twitter, I wondered if they had a copy of the Alan Moore Black Dossier vinyl record which used it as a base[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyzGMkryc_k[/youtube] Behind the scenes of Jimmy's End with Frank Metterton, playing Alan Moore. "It might be possible to actually create a world of the imagination, a world of dreams if you will, and then to export things from imagination into the real world." Here are the original films as well… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrXU-BYTHjc[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrXU-BYTHjc[/youtube] [...]

Tomorrow's Observer newspaper will feature a sprawling interview and feature with Alan Moore. In which we learn about his great-grandfather, Ginger Vernon, who "used to trade caricatures for pints in the pub." He hates being coerced, whatever the financial incentive, and it may well be something in the blood His great-grandfather Ginger, the hard-drinking cartoonist, was at[...]

Selling almost twice as many copies as DC Nation #2. A mixture of the Top 100 Power List, the Alan Moore interview, Tim Burton's tour of the Frankenweenie sets and even a mini-price guide seem to have done the trick But will we be able to do the same for issue #2, out the ninth of[...]

Back in June, a South Carolina library pulled their copy of Neonomicon from the adultbookshelves, after a 14 year old girl withdrew it using her mother's

THE WIRED Wired runs Alan Moore's essay from Occupy Comics; The field of comics, formerly regarded as a more insidious threat to young minds and public morality than syphilis, has currently attained a level of propriety which it seems anxious to maintain Having at last apparently become a critically-accepted and occasionally lucrative component of the entertainment industry,[...]

And includes an appreciation from Alan Moore… GIANT-SIZED Broadsheet newspaper Sixteen gigantic 15″ x 22.75″ pages (8 color, 8 b/w) Available Dec 22, 2012 After a four-year sabbatical, beloved revolutionary sweetheart Arthur returns to print, renewed, refreshed, reinvigorated and in a bold new format: pages as tall and wide as a daily newspaper on compostable newsprint, with ads only[...]

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[...]

It's wonderful." "There's not really a book like this on the stands right now." 4 out of 5 stars iFanboy "Alan Moore's masterpiece that he's been hiding all these years has finally been released!" Reviews have been excellent for this nuclear winter tale of a world obsessed with fashion A story first written by Alan Moore in the mid-eighties with[...]

Bleeding Cool ran in its entirety the first film produced from a screenplay by Alan Moore, Jimmy's End and its prequel, Act Of Faith, over the weekend Hell, we'll run them again now They are both part of a larger project now known as The Show. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrXU-BYTHjc#![/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ540_MGBZU[/youtube] You can also see the longer film on the Jimmy's[...]

I recently wrote an article for Bleeding Cool Magazine #2, entitled Comic Book Feuds, looking at some of the more prominent comic industry feuds of late, and they included Alan Moore and Grant Morrison. I may have to do some last minute editing however, as Laura Sneddon has compiled for The Beat, a fisking of a[...]

Kevin O'Neill is selling his artwork for League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 2009 from the Brussels gallery Champaka from 1500€ to 2000€, avaialble

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrXU-BYTHjc#![/youtube] Today, Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins' new film, Jimmy's End, has been released online, for free It can be seen, above I recommend the biggest screen you can lay your hands on. It's part of a series of projects from the pair revolving around the same narrative, characters and location[...]

The Guy Fawkes mask was a traditional British item, often used to create Guy Fawkes effigies for kids to beg for money with, and to be burnt on bonfires.