Alan Moore Archives

The Comic Book Alliance, basically the UK equivalent of the CBLDF and HERO with a proactive role improving the lot of the comics, has got a huge amount of very desirable material up for auction. First on the block is a role, both name and likeness, in an upcoming issue of Batman, Inc, courtesy of Grant[...]

From an anonymous internet bidder, the first page of Watchmen has sold for $33,640. 21 bidders and no reserve. This is the highest a Watchmen page has

With Neonomicon in the shops and Fashion Beast on the way, it's probably quite a good time to be Alan Moore right now… Anyway, here's a birthday tribute from Brian Bolland from the book The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore, published for his fiftieth birthday and recently republished. Mr Moore isn't one for the internet[...]

A few eBay listings that might be worth bringing to your attention. First up is an original piece of art by Dave Sim featuring Lady Gaga and Cerebus

He co-created The Ballad Halo Jones with Alan Moore He's worked on comics from Judge Dredd to Mister Miracle. And now he has a new project Lifeboat The first issue is complete, he's working on the second, and he's looking for a publisher. Here are some teaser panels to give you an idea of flavour and tone…[...]

I have touched this page. Up for sale, right now is Watchmen Page One, Issue One, with Rorschach's monologue and the move from smily face button up, up,

On BBC 2 this Thursday (England and Wales only, Scotland can go swivel), Alan Moore will be bringing The Culture Show cameras to explore the "biggest public art exhibition of Austin Osman Spare for over 50 years". Spare was an Edwardian artist and practicing magician Moore seeks to show why he has been ignored by[...]

Alan Moore volunteered to take over as writer, but I stupidly stuck with the writer Dick gave me I saw it as a matter of loyalty Having been a freelancer for about 10 years (moonlighting as a copy editor when I worked in book publishing), I couldn't warm up to the idea of firing a[...]

Next year sees the second volume of Century, the three volume League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen series by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill And in this chapter, published by Top Shelf and Knockabout, our Victorian pulp heroes hit the sixties The solicitation reads; CHAPTER TWO takes place almost sixty years later in the psychedelic daze of Swinging[...]

Casey Lau writes for Bleeding Cool. I've been reading Alan Moore's work since I worked at a comic shop in Vancouver and reading Watchmen monthly as it came out totally destroyed my love for The Uncanny X-Men even though I probably only understood half of it. Rich Johnston, proprietor of one of my favorite comic book blogs[...]

Number Crunching wishes to reward the generous. Issue number: 5 Cost: £3.50 ($4.80) Pages: 78 Cost per page: 4 pence (6 cents) Alan Moore's pages: 11, but his nicotine stained fingerprints are everywhere. Pages by Tom Pickard from his upcoming autobiography: 12 Pages by Melibnda Gebbie on her time working on Where The Wind Blows: 4 Panels per page on Farmer and Healey's[...]

Many people seem to believe that Alan Moore hates films He just doesn't like a lot of them these days And he's not keen on people taking what he once wrote as a comic and turning it into a film without his permission And especially then stating that they have his permission. Anyway, the new issue[...]

And making it a San Diego 2010 Exclusive. Negotiations over the rights to the Alan Moore/Garry Leach/Alan Davis/Chuck Austen/Rick Vietch/Jon Totleben/Neil Gaiman/Mark Buckingham run on the book from the nineteen eighties have still not been fully nailed down, so the odds are that the character will be based on the original Mick Anglo designs rather than[...]

A couple of weeks ago, Checker Publishing announced to comic book stores that it had chosen no longer to allow Diamond Comics Distributors and Diamond Book distributors to sell its comics and graphic novels. Checker have specialised in reprinting classic works, from Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon to Alan Moore's Supreme, although their schedule has dropped off[...]

But it was quite a surprise when one episode featured Alan Moore. In a bowler hat And then it gets really odd. There is a Spanish TV show featuring parodies of various celebrities But it was quite a surprise when one episode featured Alan Moore. In a bowler hat And then it gets really odd. [...]

Okay, okay, there's also interviews with Neil Gaiman, Mick Anglo and the like ( though note, no mention of Alan Moore, Garry Leach or Dez Skinn in the solicitations) with art by a bunch of tip top folks. Newsarama also state that Marvel are publishing the classic Marvelman strips by Mick Anglo as Marvelman Family's Finest[...]

The piece also looks at the firing of Mike Barr and Marv Wolfman from DC for siding with those concerned. He also catalogues Alan Moore's involvement and how it was a threat from DC that if Moore didn't co-operate with DC that they would publish Watchmen sequels without him, that was the straw that let him[...]

I own Alan Moore's Batman The Killing Joke which Heath Ledger cited as inspiration for his portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight Speaking of Alan Moore I own Watchmen, but then who doesn't? I own the frankly amazing Kingdom Come in Absolute format (coffee tables beware!) I own all of Joss Whedon's Astonishing[...]

Rebellion, publishers of 2000AD and Judge Dredd Megazine have finally switched their publishing licence to Simon & Schuster, who will print books in both the UK and the US, which should make sure the books are distributed better in the US, and also are slightly cheaper.And books are starting to make it onto Amazon's preorder[...]

Steve Bissette recalls how Frank Miller first got a copy of DC's memo regarding the new ratings and rallied the troops from Alan Moore to John Byrne, Moebius to Walt Simonson, to add their names to an announcement in CBG against the incoming practice, without any creative consultation, and wrote a letter to publisher Jeanette[...]

Who seems to have had a bit of a thing for Superman for quite some time… and left a trail to follow. 1994: I have the last two issues of the original Supes books written by Alan Moore, and those for me are the last issues of the real Superman Who this new guy is, I dunno….   1996:   I[...]

Okay, it's quite small at the moment… but right now the Alan Moore Alan Davis Captain Britain Omnibus is $10.79 at Barnes & Noble as are the Bendis and Maleev Daredevil Omnibus, Vol 2 and the Tomb of Dracula Omnibus, Vol 2 A lot of other Omnibi are sold out but… look just[...]

Alan Moore performing in a new London Show 2.Comparing Punisher Butterfly to Goodbye To Comics 3 Professor Xavier's Steampunk chair 4 LongBox Going Public 5 Casting Cursed Pirate Girl And a quick nod to columnists Adi Tantimedh and Si Spurrier! Thank you sirs! Top Ten Most Read Posts This Week: 1 Matchstick Middle Earth Not only that, this link to a matchstick[...]

Boom. MooreWatch: The Guardian presents Alan Moore, Iain Sinclair and more talk about the journey through the English country as part of  a new performance piece. I've always had a soft spot for the multi-media presentation – Alan Moore. TwitWatch: Regarding yesterday's piece on the removal of captions from Milestone Forever #2. Neil Gaiman: This is bizarre Why would[...]

Robin Ince is a British standup comedian and writer, best known right now for organising and presenting the televised Christmas show, Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People and for stand up routines that celebrate science, humanism and Darwinism. Well, he's got a new show at the end of the month called Robin Ince's School for[...]

  Writers and artists will insist, those nomadic fuckers, on coming and going.  And audiences will insist, the poor deluded fools, on pretending the entertainment they purchase comes in the form of discrete units which they, hahaha, call Stories.  But the beauty of having an arc set in a shared universe, particularly when mixed with a[...]

During which he talks about the issues with DC Comics and The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen that led to some remarkable decisions and actions on both sides. A brief summary – Alan Moore announced he was to pull his League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen series created with Kevin O'Neill from DC, as the last straw in his[...]

See if there's a pattern. Actions that saw Alan Moore pull his last remaining work and co-operation from the company – and even at the end saw officials ignore their own legal advice over what they could and could not publish, leading to damaged and weakened comic product. The firing of Scott Dunbier, the creator of the[...]

Following on from Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, JH Williams III and Alex Ross, his next collaboration is with Mark Buckingham, artist on Fables and, continues through the alphabet with its first letter, this time 'E'. Each Beast At The Feast is a poem about a "fabulous animal picnic" printed on Ivory Exacta Bristol Vellum paper.You can[...]

And the publisher of Yaoi Press being arrested for drugs offences. Creative stories such as JMS was leaving Thor, Bendis and Fraction bringing us an X-Men/New Avengers crossover, Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons teaming up on a project,  Chaykin and Romita's Shmuggy And Bimbo, Alan Moore writing new BoJeffries Saga, Carla Speed McNeil and Sarah Ryan[...]