Alan Moore Archives

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[...]

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

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

John McLaughlin, one of the four credited writers of Black Swan, is to revamp Youngblood with Rob Liefeld as part of Image's Extreme relaunch/revamp Bleeding Cool first mentioned this summer, based on the characters Liefeld first used to publish at Image Comics. Announced at the NYCC, they are: Youngblood by John McLaughlin, Jon Malin and Rob Liefeld. [...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

Alan Moore states, on the matter of PFC Bradley Manning, held over charges related to the Wikileaks expose; "With any legitimate trial of whistleblower Bradley Manning still being at an unspecified date in the future, it would seem that what is presently on trial here is Western culture itself When the persecution of an individual who[...]

...and he's very disappointed in you. From last week's League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969 signing at Gosh Comics, thanks to Joel

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool. Alan Moore upsets people. Emotionally, it's usually their own choice People get upset that his work in the 1980s made comics "dark," "serious," and "not fun anymore." There are comics readers who find him pretentious, arrogant, and boisterous; elevating an entertainment form onto an artistic pedestal at the expense of their[...]

From Alan Moore to Frank Miller to Robert Crumb, they're all in here, with illustrations from the amazing Hunt Emerson. He tells me; "I'd started collecting more anecdotes, just on the off-chance that it might have been worth doing a sequel, but the book was so poorly advertised thatnot many people heard of it The stories have[...]

There has been a small media fuss over Damon Albarn's new opera on the life and times of the magician, mathematician and court advisor to Queen Elizabeth, Doctor John Dee. The New Scientist reports; The opera, Dr Dee, which premieres at the Manchester International Festival in the UK this week, was conceived when festival organisers approached graphic[...]

I couldn't make it to the British Library tonight to see The Universe Of Alan Moore – Alan in conversation with comedian, comic writer and Alan Moore-interviewer Stewart Lee, as part of their Out Of This World events In which Lee told Alan "what is twitter if not voluntary self surveillance?" I know this because[...]

After twenty-five years, one of the most famous comic book shops in the world, Gosh! Comics of London is moving from opposite the British Museum on Great Russell Street, to the other side of Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road, to Berwick Street, in Soho, on August 6th. But before they leave, Gosh! will host a[...]

And I understand there may be more to come… In related news, Big Numbers writer Alan Moore has given an interview to The Big Issue. Singling out ring leader of the 'new atheism' Richard Dawkins, Moore says he can be more religious than scientific in his dedication to his own theory of evolution "There[...]

Woo.... A commission piece by Chris Weston there. Woo...

Well here's another. Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows' Neonomicon in harcover and paperback, incorporating the prequel Courtyard miniseries adapted from Alan Moore's short story, by Antony Johnston and Jacen Burrows. Ostensibly a crime thriller about FBI agents investigating an occult cult, it uses structural aspects of the comic book medium to deliver a message about text, subtext[...]

Over the phone he reveals to me that Alan Moore is at the event! I begged my dad to put him on and before I knew it I was talking to one of my heroes Alan Moore! He was absolutely lovely He was incredibly nice to me and I don't think I acted like an idiot[...]

Alan Moore, by Frank Quitely Make sure you look deep into the beard to see what you can see… it will be worth it Photographed by MArvel's CB Cebulski last night Clicky for biggy. On display at the Centro Cultural Bernardino Rivadavia of Rosario in Argentina right now Alan Moore, by Frank Quitely Make sure[...]

It wasn't that long ago that Alan Moore declared that DC's current work was based on his own stuff for them years ago, and he wished they'd come up with something new. Well, it's tempting to think that people at DC, especially Geoff Johns, whose Blackest Night was singled out by Moore, might have taken this[...]

Apparently Winston Churchill was just a pig in a hat, part of a cigar advertising that got out of control. Here's the second part of last night's Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle on BBC2, put up onto YouTube by someone naughty, bless them, featuring Alan Moore, Stewart Lee and the revelation that Alan carries a crowbar around[...]

It'd take more guts to tell Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons you want connect up the hive mind and call it Mogo. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Robert Kirkman Insisted On Covering Up Eve's Bottom In Invincible #79 And here's a close up of that panel of Eve, Invincible's girlfriend. Mogo Doesn't Eulogize (Green Lantern SPOILERS) There's an awful lot of[...]

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool. As the Green Lantern movie approaches this summer, Hal Jordan isn't the only one building incredible things out of

So, while you are waiting for the world not to end  – though we'll be having a rematch next year with the Mayans – why not settle back and enjoy the most entertaining way the Earth has met its end in comics? Alan Moore and Alan Davis's first DR And Quinch story from 2000AD[...]

Why? Because he was delivering me this thing. Alan Moore: Storyteller is by Gary Spencer Millidge, long time friend of Alan Moore, creator of Strangehaven and author of Portrait Of An Extraordinary Gentleman, a Moore anthology I contributed towards around the time of his fiftieth birthday. But this is a very different kind of volume[...]