Tag Archive | "Alan Moore"

Extraordinary Gentlemen at Gosh

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

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Yes, those extraordinary gentlemen, Messrs Kevin O’Neill (well known ittinerant artist) and Alan Moore (five times winner of the All-Northampton Mighty Beard Champion), will be returning to London’s fine Gosh Comics emporium of four-colour delights to mark the publication of the third and final part of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century trilogy, with the [...]

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Moore and McMahon

Friday, May 4, 2012

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Over on his Tugging Your Coat blog the excellent Mick McMahon posts up his only work with Alan Moore that came to be printed (he hints enticingly about another project involving him, Alan and Kev O’Neill which never happened – we can only imagine what that might have been like, sigh…), in this case it [...]

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The return of The Black Dossier…

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

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The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen – The Black Dossier By Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill Knockabout Comics Before Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill took The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to Top Shelf & Knockabout for LoEG: Century, DC Comics were responsible for putting out the third volume – LoEG: The Black Dossier. To put it [...]

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Yep, that about covers it….

Saturday, April 21, 2012

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Seen a fair few variations of this floating around these last few days since the BBC interview with Moore, but this is my fave thus far. (Via Link Machine Go) Hard Talk interview – BBC iPlayer, You Tube. And if you didn’t realise…. Alan Moore knows the score…..

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Alan Moore on Hard Talk

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

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Our revered great bearded magus of Albion, Alan Moore, is the guest on the BBC’s Hard Talk, being interviewed about his comics work from V for Vendetta through to porn and erotica with the Lost Girls, also taking in his prose writing, his feelings about the comics industry (dying he thinks, from lack of original [...]

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Alan Moore at the October Gallery

Monday, March 19, 2012

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Our much beloved Great Wizard of Albion, Mr Alan Moore, gave a talk as part of a series of events held on the last Tuesday of the month at the October Gallery back in 2010 and there’s now a good, long video of Alan’s talk online: Alan Moore from Ecology, Cosmos & Consciousness on Vimeo.

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Two bits of Moore … Library readings of a huge novel, and some old book…

Saturday, March 17, 2012

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Okay, this week saw a couple of Alan Moore things. The first was his appearance at Northampton Public Library for a reading from his second novel Jerusalem…. Jerusalem will be Alan Moore’s second novel. It will be huge. At one point it was talked of in the region of 3/4 of a million words. But [...]

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Mike Collins has True Grit

Saturday, March 17, 2012

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Mike Collins has posted up his very first professional work over on his Facebook page – the 4-page Daredevil pastiche “Grit”, written by Alan Moore, with art by Collins and Mark Farmer. Oh, and a quick Google around shows me it’s also available for those without that Facebook thing at the excellent 4 Colour Heroes [...]

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What’s the Point of the Arts and Humanities?

Friday, March 9, 2012

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What’s the Point of the Arts and Humanities? is the title of a discussion at the Oxford Literary Festival, which will include in the panel Josie Long, Stewart Lee and a certain Mr Alan Moore, on Monday 26th of March at 2pm (full details on the Festival site here). (cover to Alan Moore: Storyteller by [...]

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Alan Moore guest posts on the BBC site

Friday, February 10, 2012

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Our great, bearded magus Alan Moore, Albion’s Wizard in Extraordinary, is given a guest slot on the BBC site to discuss this global adoption of the V For Vendetta mask he and Dave Lloyd had the titular character wear in the comic, now sported worldwide by a variety of anti-corporate and anti-authority (or more precisely [...]

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Before Watchmen – Ty Templeton’s verdict….

Sunday, February 5, 2012

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It’s funny… what else did you expect?

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Before Watchmen….

Saturday, February 4, 2012

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You’re probably aware of this: The Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons created Watchmen, released in ’86-’87, 12 issues and a collection that’s never been out of print, and sold in its millions. And unless you’ve been living under a rock this week, you’re probably aware that DC have now decided it’s time to do these: [...]

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Marvel on Marvelman – “Sit tight. We’ll have some additional news soon.”

Saturday, January 21, 2012

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“Sit tight. We’ll have some additional news soon.” Yep, that’s as good a summary as you’ll find regarding Marvel and their plans to bring back the Marvelman stories written by Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman. It’s the final piece in a long, extensive, and informative round-up by Pádraig Ó Méalóid of everything that’s gone on over [...]

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Alan Moore at Occupy London

Monday, January 16, 2012

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As was widely reported and tweeted about last week, the great bearded Sage of Northampton that is Alan Moore visited the Occupy London site – it’s quite interesting seeing the writer of V discussing the widespread use of V For Vendetta masks by various protestors! There’s a video of the meeting now uploaded:

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Invisible Girls and Phantom Ladies – Alan Moore on comics and gender

Monday, January 9, 2012

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The comics – especially the mainstream capes’n'tights comics – and charges of poor gender portrayal and indeed outright sexism are, sadly, not strangers to each other. Both in terms of the inequality in numbers of female creators and in the way women, even incredibly powerful superheroines, have been portrayed the medium has, often rightly, come [...]

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