Alan Moore Archives

Swipe File: Watchmen And Incognito
One is a comic book turned into a film against the writer's wishes. The other is a comic book about to be turned into a film with the writer's eager participation. Anyway, here's a scene from Watchmen #6 from 1985 by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons from DC Comics, and from Incognito: Bad Influences #5 from 2011[...]
Thursday Trending Topics: Re-Ultimate
Alan Moore?  Michael Kaluta? New Ultimates?  Now that's a Thursday full of comic news, though with a surprising lack of Thor  But like every Thursday night, I'm late, I'm late, for a very important… webcomic  So let's get down to business here: Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Alan Moore's Big New Multi-Media Thing What I thought was wouldn't it[...]
Dodging Logic In A Round Chapel
But this was the London Word Festival, this was the Dodgem Logic Festival both a celebration and, on part, a eulogy to Alan Moore's underground magazine he published eight issues of, complete with music on CD, transfer tattoos, obscene mini-comics and the very existence of which helped me discover a new good friend, Khandie Khisses[...]
Alan Moore's Big New Multi-Media Thing
"Blah blah blah, I hate films, blah blah, you know, it's tiresome" – Alan Moore. At the Dodgem Logic show last night, Alan was asked if he had any interest in writing a computer game – and if so could the questioner's company make it. Alan gave a very guarded answer that outlined what seemed to be[...]
The From Hell "British Customs Copies" For Sale – £100
Last night at the Dodgem Logic show (and a lot more on that to come later) , Tony from Knockabout was selling a number of copies of a variety of Alan Moore and Knockabout comics, for people to get signed by Alan Moore and other attendees. One item that didn't sell but stuck out was this[...]
First Storyboard Frame From Alan Moore's New Film – And More
One frame from the storyboard for Jimmy's End, Mitch Jenkins' new film written by Alan Moore. Photographer Mitch Jenkins has been working on a number of projects with Moore I first mentioned his graphic novel adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novelle Unearthing about the life of Steve Moore, three years ago Here's a pic from it[...]
Wednesday Comics Review: Neonomicon 4 and Hellraiser Prelude And 1
The final issue of Neonomicon by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows What to show, what to talk about, what to say without spoilers. What I can say is that the Bleeding Cool crowdsourcing of analytic readers managed to get pretty much everything they guessed on the nose What Carcosa actually said, what it meant, where Cthulhu[...]
Alan Moore's Neonomicon #4 Out For C2E2
It's the last issue of Alan Moore and Jacen's HP Lovecraft comic book Neonomicon And it's out in all its many covers, for C2E2 Time to get all your questions answered… and your cop[ies signed by Jason. And now with added Caligula issue 1… It's the last issue of Alan Moore and Jacen's HP Lovecraft comic[...]
Alan Moore Interviewed By Pádraig Ó Méalóid
Pádraig Ó Méalóid, long time friend of the site, has just posted a full interview with Alan Moore on his site Naturally you'll want to read the whole thing bit here are a few select highlights from the man. On Superfolks; I can't even remember when I read it[...]
Alan Moore Was Baptised Allan Moore?
The upcoming comprehensive biography of Alan Moore by friend and colleague Gary Spencer Millidge, Storyteller, reproduces a number of early photographs and documents of the great man. On his blog, Gary shows us  a number of spreads from the upcoming volume And also that Alan was actually baptised "Allan"… The upcoming comprehensive biography of Alan Moore[...]
Alan Moore's Dodgem Logic – The Live Show
Well, now Alan Moore's magazine next trick is to jump off the pages and into performance. On May 2nd, as part of the London Word Festival, Alan Moore comperes a Dodgem Logic 2011 evening with artists Steve Aylett, Savage Pencil, Melinda Gebbie and Kevin O'Neill talking about their comic work, with Robin Ince bringing his standup[...]
Aqua Globes Explained Via Medium Of Alan Moore
And they described it thus; Like Alan Moore, plants have a job to do, and they do it very well, but they'd really prefer to just sit quietly and do it on their own They understand that they are the primary source of the food chain and they accept this[...]
The First Three Panels Of Neonomicon #4
I understand that Alan Moore has signed off on the finished artwork by Jacen Burrows for the final issue of Neonomicon and that Neonomicon #4 will be going to print in a few hours. So until then, here are the first few panels of the final issue With a boat heading away from the domed city… [...]
Alan Moore Shares The Importance Of Libraries With Death (VIDEO)
Yesterday, the appearance of Alan Moore at his local library, St James in Northampton, for a reading of his Christmas short story from Dodgem Logic #7, packed the place out. It was part of a large number of nationwide protest against the threatened closure of libraries as part of a series of nationswide spending cuts. And in[...]
Alan Moore Participates In "Read-In" To Save Local Library
On February the 5th, there will be a protest "read in" at the St James Library in Northampton with Alan Moore, that follows a protest held there tomorrow from midday to 2pm. The library, along with many others, is suffering from local council budget cuts as the British government has been reducing council funding Alan Moore[...]
Alan Moore Campaigns Against Local Library Closures
Remember, remember, the fifth of February… That's when Alan Moore will be speaking at a reading event, part of an event to campaign against the planned potential closure of the St James Library in his home town of Northampton. The library is one of eight that may be closed by the local council as part of spending[...]
Did Julian Assange Learn The Politics Of V For Vendetta From Birgitta Jónsdóttir?
She talks about her collection of work by Alan Moore, Joe Sacco and more, V For Vendetta, Maus and Palestine in particular as well as promoting famed Icelandic comic shop Nexus and the city library's stock. She's used her (very public) Twitter feed to promote these books too; Birgittaj: this brightmas/christmas/Xmas i wrapped up a book[...]
Rereading And Translating Neonomicon #3
There's nothing quite like the Little Bleeders of Bleeding Cool to crowdsource a comic analysis. Take Neonomicon #3 by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows I'd already posted about some of the themes and images in the comic But I hadn't seen the half of it Thankfully the commentators were happy to step up Here are a[...]
League Of Extraordinary Lettering
Todd Klein presents some of his lettering work from the upcoming League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: 1969 as well as some of the working practices
VIDEO: The Mindscape Of Alan Moore. For Americans.
If you have access to Hulu, you can watch the entirety of the Alan Moore documentary, The Mindscpe Of Alan Moore. If you haven't, like me, you can't Sorry. UPDATE: And from Snag Films If you have access to Hulu, you can watch the entirety of the Alan Moore documentary, The Mindscpe Of Alan Moore. If you haven't,[...]
Michael Moorcock And Gary Spencer Millidge On Alan Moore
April next year will see the publication of Alan Moore: Storyteller, a hardcover volume by Strangehaven's Gary Spencer Millidge with a foreword by fantasy author extraordinaire, and central influence on Alan Moore's work, Michael Moorcock. Millidge was the author/editor/publisher of Portrait Of An Extraordinary Gentlemen, created for Alan's fiftieth birthday (which I contributed a page to)[...]
Preview: Alan Moore And Jacen Burrows' Neonomicon #3
Tomorrow in the USA and Canada and on Thursday in the UK, snow willing, comes the third part of Alan Moore's final graphic novel (for now anyway) with Crossed's Jacen Burows, Neonomicon. If your shop is willing to stock it that is Rape, torture and sea monsters Not a pretty combination. Here's a preview taster. [...]
Kevin O'Neill's Christmas Cover To Alan Moore's Dodgem Logic #7
The upcoming issue of Alan Moore's Dodgem Logic is a Christmas special, nay a Christmas Annual, with Beano-style lettering to boot And Kevin O'Neill gives us a Santa with the letters slightly rearranged for the cover Ho ho ho. The magazine will also begin Harry Hill writer David Quantick and underground cartoonist Edwin Pouncey, a.k.a[...]
BC ComicChron
I am weeping. MooreWatch: The documentary The Mindscape Of Alan Moore hits iTunes Here's a preview. This is The Bleeding Cool ComicChron Robot speaking I come for your women But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online One day I will rule Until that day, read on. Irrational Interviews Episode 5: Zack Snyder a discussion of[...]
Alan Moore Plays Santa Claus To Northampton
Well he does have the beard for it. According to the Northampton Chronicle, Alan Moore is using the profits from his Dodgem Logic magazine to donate three hundred Christmas hampers to Northampton residents living in sheltered housing located in Spring Boroughs, the area he grew up in, and to the Northampton homeless drop-in centre through[...]