Alan Moore Archives

The Marvelman Conspiracies Continue…
Especially concerning Alan Moore-related stuff. On his blog he writes that he's been trying to find absolute proof that Mick Anglo owned Marvelman before the character was sold, through Emotiv Records and John Campbell, to Marvel Comics It's certainly what the likes of Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman believe. Well, Pádraig has found a volume published in[...]
Review: Dodgem Logic #1 By Alan Moore And Friends
That's the introduction to Alan Moore's new self-published-ish fanzine, Dodgem Logic, in shops now In fact I'm told that in Alan Moore's home town of Northampton he turned up at his local comic shop, Close Encounters and dropped them off saying "does Frank Miller do that?" No, Alan, no he doesn't Frank is currently in Rome[...]
Twappy Birthday, Alan Moore
I first met Alan Moore on the occasion of his 40th birthday He was performing Birth Caul: A Shamanism Of Childhood in Newcastle, he's just decided to become a magician and we ended up in the same pub afterwards I asked him if I could publish his Twilight Of The Superheroes pitch with the copyright[...]
ComICA – 'Dark We Were And Golden Eyed' Panel Report
And so they gathered. Mike Lake, co-founder of Forbidden Planet and Titan Distributors, and early UK shop manager Derek Stokes, of Dark They Were And Golden Eyed, the first UK comic store, and Phil Clarke, who organised the first British comics convention in 1968 in Birmingham. Mike had a number of documents and pages on display, from[...]
Lantern Smackdown
From last week's Green Lantern… okay it might come off as a pwning of Alan Moore's comments a few weeks back, but that would have been a very last minute change and it's impossible for the mighty publishing machine could have reacted so quickly I understand it is, however, a refutation to some readers who had previously[...]
Remembered, Remembered The Fifth Of Novembered
Originally serialised in Warrior Magazine, this political thriller by Alan Moore and David Lloyd sees one man bring down the state through a series of small actions that, combined, create one massive change – a very fractal terrorist Pitting the extremes of Anarchy and Fascism against each other, the book believes that everyone must make[...]
Marvel Hire Vampirella Editor As New Talent Co-Ordinator
Bogart used to be editor-in-chief of Harris himself, hiring the likes of Mark Millar, Alan Moore, Grant Morrison and Warren Ellis on the Vampirella title. Similarly when Bon edited the Vampirella title, he recruited Priest and Mike Carey to the book It seems to be a new career path at Marvel – edit Vampirella. Or in Joe[...]
Alan Moore Talks Blackest Night
Kurt Amacker has continued his interview with Alan Moore at Mania While recapping his opinions, over how he negatively influenced his superhero genre as a whole, he also specifically jumps on Blackest Night. I was noticing that DC seems to have based one of its latest crossovers in Green Lantern based on a couple of eight-page[...]
Garth Ennis – When 2000AD Was The Future
A glance at the roster of talent involved is enough to take the breath away, and it should be remembered that a whole generation of readers was able to pick up almost any given issue and see a dozen of these guys at their very best. So thank you: Pat Mills, John Wagner, Gerry Finley-Day, Alan[...]
Alan Moore – Building Jerusalem
In among reports on Spanish festivals, cinematic Manchester punk, the story of Long Jeanne Silver and the All About Loud comic, was a longform frank interview from Jerry Glover with Alan Moore about Lost Girls, pornography, relationships, drugs, physics, astrophysics, the nature of reality and his upcoming novel Jerusalem It's a must for any Alan[...]
Straight Outta Northampton – Alan Moore's Hip Hop Samples
Am I the only one who thinks that Alan Moore looks a bit like Ricky Gervais in The Office when he talks to camera? "I'm a friend first, magus second, probably a street magician third…" Am I the only one who thinks that Alan Moore looks a bit like Ricky Gervais in The Office when[...]
Alan Moore To Write New BoJeffries Saga
At the ComICA League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen event last night, Alan Moore announced that he was writing new episodes of The BoJeffries Saga for Steve Parkhouse, to be published by Top Shelf comix. The BoJeffries Saga is the long lost forgotten child of Warrior magazine. While V For Vendetta and Marvelman would go on to great acclaim,[...]
Little Lulu Becomes Brazilian Manga Teen Lulu
A similar approach was taken to the recent MONICA'S GANG revamp in Brazil, and keen publishers seek to imitate that title's success. One wonders what the Simpsons' version of Alan Moore would think of it all. Teen Luluzina image copyright Classic Media Simpsons image copyright Fox. Little Lulu is being reinvented in an manga style for the[...]