Alan Moore Archives

One of the most renowned and respected comic book creators of all time, Alan Moore is also a filmmaker, anarchist, and accomplished wizard in service of the snake god Glycon. Bursting onto the comics scene in the 1980s, Moore effectively broke the entire comics industry, which has been trapped in a nostalgic feedback loop since 1986. From coverage of Moore's seminal work with Dave Gibbons, Watchmen, (not to be confused with Moore's fish-semenal work, Neonomicon) to his current projects and cultural commentary, Bleeding Cool brings you all the latest news about Alan Moore as well as the unauthorized sequels and adaptations of his work. Moore's most famous comics also include From Hell, Swamp Thing, Marvelman, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, V for Vendetta, Promethea, The Killing Joke, Tom Strong, Providence, Lost Girls, and others. Of Moore's magickal prowess, the only comic book creator viewed as having comparable magick abilities is fellow Englishman Grant Morrison. However, fellow comic book creator "The Great One" Brian Bendis has gone on the record as saying that Moore could easily defeat Morrison in a wizard battle. "Alan Moore’s mage powers are not to be f***ed with,"  Bendis said. It's a lesson DC Comics, which has kept control of the Watchmen rights instead of releasing them to Moore and Gibbons after keeping the book in print for perpetuity to fulfill a contractual loophole, must one day learn as well.

Joel Meadows On Taking Photos Of Comic Book Creators
People like fantasy legend Michael Moorcock, Watchmen and V For Vendetta co-creator Alan Moore, the late great Scottish sci fi and modern fiction author Iain Banks and Oscar winning director Guillermo del Toro (The Shape Of Water, Pinocchio) to name just a few it will also include a brand new introduction from acclaimed British comics[...]
Auto Draft
Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout Ltd have released an official announcement for the very long awaited The Moon And Serpent Bumper Book Of Magic by Alan Moore and the late Steve Moore, with art from the late Kevin O'Neill, John Coulthart, Steve Parkhouse, Rick Veitch, and Ben Wickey. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1[...]
A Vwru Special Wonder Woman From Tom King & Mitch Gerards
In the now-classic Superman story by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, For The Man Who Has Everything, Batman and Wonder Woman visit Superman in his Fortress Of Solitude.. …to find him in the arms of a Black Mercy plant giving him his dreams of living in Krypton, and allowing Mongul free reign to conquer the Earth. The[...]
Alan Moore: Portraits Of An Extraordinary Gentleman For His 70th Year
In 2004 for his 50th birthday, Gary Spencer Millidge as Abiogenesis Press published Alan Moore: Portrait Of An Extraordinary Gentleman, a collection of tributes to the man, mostly in comic book form Contributors included Neil Gaiman, Will Eisner, Bill Sienkiewicz, Dave Gibbons, Denis Kitchen, David Lloyd, Jim Valentino, Sergio Toppi, Bryan Talbot, Steve Parkhouse, Mark[...]
Alan Moore (Saviour of Brazil) On Magic, Fascism & What We Can All Do
Last month, Alan Moore held an audience with the Scottish Book Trust, hosted by fellow author Heather Parry in which he talked about saving Brazil from fascism As it concluded, he was asked if he expected his upcoming series of prose fantasy novels, Long London to be as experimental as his other prose works such as[...]
Alan Moore (Saviour of Brazil) On Magic, Fascism & What We Can All Do
Recently, Alan Moore held an audience with the Scottish Book Trust, hosted by fellow author Heather Parry They talked about everything from cabbages to kings, from Star Trek to satire, but also that this was the occasion of his seventieth birthday Which meant it was thirty years since he declared that he was a magician[...]
Alan Moore Sings In Clip From His Movie, The Show, Out Next Week
Alan Moore turned seventy years of age today So what better excuse than to run a bunch of songs that he has either written, recorded or both And some with videos showing the comic books they are from. Such as the punk band The Indelicates singing Immoral Earnings In The UK from League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen,[...]
Doctor Who: Kickstart An Alternate Universe Lost Doctor Annual!
Sylvester got the role when BBC decided that Campbell (whose audition channelled Doctor Manhattan from the recently-published Alan Moore comic Watchmen) was too scary for children Yes, this really happened. But what if Campbell had got the job? In the universe next door, he did Join us for the adventures of… The Lost Doctor. In this beautifully[...]
Dave Sim To Reveal Who Exploited Who Over Marvelman
Claremont wrote Ms Marvel – who would later become Marvel's Captain Marvel – and his work on X-Men influenced Alan Moore's work on Marvelman, especially Dark Phoenix and Kid Marvelman but as for the rest? I have no idea I will have to pick a copy up The Kickstarter offers are possibly a bit too[...]
Authors Discover Pirated Versions of Their Books Used to Train Meta AI
Here's a few results for folk notable to Bleeding Cool readers: Alan Moore 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom From Hell Jerusalem Voice Of The Fire Neil Gaiman A Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff Adventures in the Dream Trade American Gods American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition: A Novel Anansi Boys (American Gods Book 2) Coraline Coraline Day of the Dead: A Babylon5 Scriptbook Doctor Who: Nothing O'Clock: Eleventh Doctor[...]
BCTV Daily Dispatch
Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Disney/ABC, WGA/AMPTP, Peacock's John Carpenter's Suburban Screams, AEW/WWE, Alan Moore, Netflix's One Piece, Disney+'s Ahsoka, AMC's The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, Max's Our Flag Means Death, Paramount+'s Frasier, FX's American Horror Story: Delicate, BBC's Doctor Who, Max's Kite Man, Hell Yeah!, Hulu's The Orville, Bill Maher, AMC's Interview with the Vampire, Justin Roiland, and more! Images/Screencaps: Netflix,[...]
Alan Moore
In case you didn't catch the news when it dropped on Wednesday, The Telegraph had an opportunity to interview writer Alan Moore At one point in the interview, the topic came up regarding how Moore's works have been adapted for film & television Now, we have a feeling that if you're reading this then you're probably[...]
BCTV Daily Dispatch
Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? ABC's Shark Tank, Bill Maher, Amazon's Wilderness, Disney+'s Ahsoka, TBS' AEW Dynamite, SYFY & USA Network's Chucky, Justin Roiland, FX's American Horror Story: Delicate, Alan Moore/DC Comics, Netflix's One Piece, Star Trek: very Short Treks, WWE Royal Rumble, Marvel Studios/IATSE, Netflix's DROP 01, STARZ's Shining Vale, Doctor Who/Big Finish, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Picard, Paramount+'s Star Trek:[...]
watchmen
In case you're one of the few remaining people left on this planet who doesn't know it yet, writer Alan Moore is not a big fan of television & film adaptations of his work Like… not at all He's been on the record making it pretty clear for decades And yet, he still gets asked[...]
Alan Moore on Superheroes, Comics and Making A Million Dollar Movie
Talking about using his dream journals in his work, Alan Moore once said, "the only promising item that they've thrown up so far is an intriguing sounding name: Dennis Knuckleyard I may find a place to use this in the future, or I may not." Well, it seems that he has Bleeding Cool has details[...]
Alan Moore Endorses Milka Biscuits
BBC Maestro has been chopping up slivers of their six-hour long Masterclass With Alan Moore series of videos, for use on social media, such as YouTube and TikTok And their choice of snippets is peculiarly entertaining, such as the following, which seems to turn into a confectionary advertisement Alan Moore says, "The three things that[...]
Doctor Who: Jo Martin's Fugitive Doctor is the One We Want Next
Then there's the "Timeless Child" reveal that was designed to shock fans and give the show new mystery and intrigue, but it's just a tired and lazy use of the "everything the hero knows about their origin is wrong!" plotline that Alan Moore introduced back in 1984 in the Swamp Thing comic, but every writer[...]
Brian Bolland Dave Gibbons
On the day of the publication of his autobiography, Confabulations, written as an A-to-Z of a life worth anecdotes (though he feels he may have to give us a second volume at some point as he keeps realising stories, events and people he may have missed out), it is notable that there is no "Watchmen"[...]
Watchmen Gossip: Tales Of The Black Freighter as a DC Comics Film?
Watchmen was a comic book by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons and John Higgins You might have heard of it; it was quite popular Was turned into a movie, a TV series, toys, unauthorised prequels, sequels and eventually merged with the history of the DC Universe So what's next? Well, I may have some other gossip[...]
Marvel X-Men Krakoa
Even though they now seem to be taking control of him. Sinister Ducks, of course, being the band formed by Alan Moore, former Bauhaus bassist David J, saxophonist Alex Greenfrom the ska band ARMY, and singer-guitarist Grant Series of D-Go-Tees, under new pseudonyms, first formed in 1979 when another band had pulled out of a performance[...]
Al Ewing & Tom Reilly Reveal the Future of Ant-Man at Marvel
A couple of years ago, Bleeding Cool reported on Marvel Executive Editor and Senior VP Tom Brevoort posting the original script to Alan Moore's contribution to the Heroes benefit book, published by Marvel Comics in 2002 in the wake of 9/11 Drawn by Dave Gibbons, it put the events of 9/11 into historical context, with[...]
Marvel Comics
Living as a hermit, with a big beard and long hair, this might seem a trite act to automatically jump to this being a version of Alan Moore in the Miracleworld, but today's Miracleman: The Silver Age #4 by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham, following on from Alan Moore's decade-long run across publishers, and itself[...]
Separated At Birth: Alan Moore Miracleman /Toby Whithouse Being Human
And he often mentions Alan Moore. "Anything written by Alan Moore… You know, if Alan Moore had written a shopping list, I'd read it." "Comic books were the sort of science fiction I grew up with, particularly British stuff like Alan Moore." What are the odds one of them was Miracleman? Separated At Birth used to be called Swipe File, in[...]
Fantagraphics To Publish The 1963 Annual By Don Simpson in 2023, Ish
A year ago, Bleeding Cool reported that Don Simpson, in a rather incendiary fashion, was planning to create and complete the 1963 Annual, the Image Comics title that was meant to have been written by Alan Moore and drawn by Jim Lee, that would have been the final issue to the 1963 comic book from[...]
Neonomicon #4 (Avatar Press, 2011)
In a 2011 interview about Neonomicon with Adi Tantimedh in Bleeding Cool Magazine, Neonomicon creator Alan Moore explains what he attempts to accomplish with horror fiction:  "People don't go to watch a horror movie to confront their mortality or to think about the transience of worldly things It's a kind of flirting with the unspeakable[...]
When Alan Moore Wrote the Final Superman Comic Instead of Jerry Siegel
So DC editor Julie Schwartz asked Alan Moore, attending San Diego Comic-Con at the time, if he would be interested, and he reportedly bit Schwartz's hand off Intending to create a comic that would tie into as much of the character's history as possible, picking up copies of the comics from Bob Beerbohm in the[...]
ChatGPT AI Thinks That Alan Moore And Rob Liefeld Write The Same
So today, I asked ChatGPT to "write a news story about Rob Liefeld" and then "write a news story about Alan Moore." For the first, it gave me: Rob Liefeld, the iconic comic book creator and artist, is making headlines today with the announcement of his newest project Liefeld, who is best known for his work[...]
Alan Moore Asks London to Take to the Streets - Extinction Rebellion
How did that happen? But first, to celebrate Alan Moore's 69th birthday, why not watch his movie debut, The Show, on Amazon Prime or Amazon Freevee in the UK?  LITG: Happy Birthday Alan Moore LITG: Alan Moore courtesy of Extinction Rebellion.   Mike Hawthorne Posts Royalty Statement For Comic Book, Goes Viral Marvel Comics' February 2023 Full Solicits &[...]
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen's Kevin O'Neill Has Died, Aged 69
He created the look for the comics' fictional editor Tharg, and began drawing short stories before making his name on the Ro-Busters strip with Pat Mills before creating the character Nemesis The Warlock for the comic book. He also began working for DC Comics on The Omega Men, as well as Alan Moore's stories for the[...]
Cover image for BALLAD OF HALO JONES OMNIBUS HC
Rebellion has released their January 2023 solicits and solicitations, though mostly for books shipping in February 2023 and beyond, including a new complete collection of The Ballad Of Halo Jones  by Alan Moore and Ian Gibson, with a new introduction by Kieron Gillen, #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid[...]