The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log

*Every time I started writing this in the odd moment over the last week a new interview kept cropping up. So I give up. Add whatever number you can find.

The Watchmen film, whether you think it’s a good idea or not, has certainly done two good things; it’s made an awful lot of people get their copies out and re-read it and it’s meant that you can’t travel around the Internet for more than a few clicks without stumbling upon an Alan Moore interview. Joe’s already covered Lew Stringer’s posting of an old piece from Today newspaper from ’86 and Neil Gaiman’s piece on comics from ’86.

But there’s more where that came from; Neil Gaiman also posts his interview with Moore from March 1986 in Knave magazine (Knave being one of those top shelf magazines back in the day). And I particularly liked Neil’s bit about why he was writing for a soft core porn magazine:

When asked why, back then, I would explain that I sold my first article to a “respectable magazine” who paid 80 pounds for it and never printed it, and my second, because the first wouldn’t take it, to UK Penthouse, who paid 300 pounds and printed it in the next issue, and really, it was decided for me then.

Of course, in the middle of all this retro interview / feature orgy, it’s possible to overlook the fact that Moore has new comics coming out very soon with the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century 1910 coming out in April. Which is why he’s on the Previews website of all places talking about it.

And finally Moore talks to Wired magazine about superheroes, the League and Magic in probably the most interesting of them all.

And as I was putting this together I came across this curiosity posted up by Wim. He has no idea who it is, nor do I – anyone want to claim it? But here’s one artist’s take on the whole Watchmen / Alan Moore thing:

So, round up time:

Neil Gaiman Time Out article (1986): here.
Neil Gaiman interviews Moore (1986): here.
Neil Gaiman on comics and Moore (1986): here.
Alan Moore on League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in Previews (2009): here.
Alan Moore on Watchmen, League and Magic (Wired 2009): here.
But if you want the motherlode, head over to alanmooreinterview.co.uk for a huge selection. Because, if you’re anything like me, there’s never such a thing as too many interviews with Alan Moore.