Tag Archive | "Alan Moore"

Alan Moore, Robin Ince, Jeff VanderMeer and more in Lint – the movie

Friday, August 26, 2011

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Noted author and all-round fine chap Steve Aylett tells us that there will be a screening of Lint – the movie, in London’s Idler Academy on September 16th. From the description: “Starring Alan Moore, Stewart Lee, Josie Long, Steve Aylett, Robin Ince, Jeff Vandermeer, D Harlan Wilson, Andrew O’Neill, Vessel (David Devant), Bill Ectric and [...]

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Alan Moore – Cheltenham Science Festival interview…..

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

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(Alan Moore at Cheltenham Science Festival – Photo by Andy Miah) The Big Issue Scotland are the latest to run an Alan Moore interview, and in common with many Alan Moore interview it’s half standard Moore stuff we’ve all probably heard before (Expelled for dealing LSD, work in the local tannery etc etc). But the [...]

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The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen – Century 1969 …. Somewhere in here I get to reviewing it.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

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The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen – Century: 1969 By Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill Knockabout / Top Shelf Hmmm, this review was meant to appear before Century 1969 came out. Except, had I have written it after just reading 1969, with Moore and O’Neill’s reduced team of Extraordinary Gentlemen in swinging, psychedelic London, it would [...]

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League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen – Century 1969…. another interview with Alan….

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

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Well, if you read through what ended up as an epic review of League Century 1969, you may want to read more. Newarama have a great, 4 part interview with Alan Moore for your delight: Part 1: All about Century 1969: “Certainly, after all the stuff I did on From Hell, I became very away [...]

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Warrior – V For Vendetta

Monday, August 1, 2011

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Following on from yesterday’s scans of the second issue of Dez Skinn’s seminal British comic Warrior I picked up recently, here’s another look back at another then-new work which has become utterly iconic and incredibly influential, Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s V For Vendetta (confession time, I actually personally rate V slightly higher than Watchmen). [...]

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The Annotated 1969

Friday, July 29, 2011

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Ye great snake gods – Jess Nevins, with help from our own Moore expert Pádraig Ó Méalóid, has already posted up an online set of annotations to the brand new League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century: 1969 from Messrs Moore and O’Neill. Most impressive. Now when I re-read 1969 I will have to do it with [...]

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Warrior – Marvelman

Friday, July 29, 2011

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When I was at the Oxfam comics gig in Edinburgh at the weekend I had a rummage through some of the second hand comics on sale between the panel discussions (see report here). I knew there was going to be a silent auction for the first 26 issues of Dez Skinn’s seminal Brit comic Warrior [...]

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League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen – in stores now!

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

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Today Century 1969, the latest volume in the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, hits comic book store shelves. I really, really meant to get a review up here today of the book, but sadly, life has been getting in the way of comics lately (I know, I know, how dare it etc etc). Just on a [...]

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More Moore…. a League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Q+A at the Guardian…

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

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The latest in Moore’s quick media jaunt in support of the new League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen – Century 1969 volume, drawn by Kevin O’Neill is up as a quick Q&A session at the Guardian. Probably not anything in there you’ll find surprising, but always nice to point these things out. On the League: “When we started the [...]

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Moore, O’Neill at old Gosh, Dave McKean at new Gosh!

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

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One of London’s landmark quality comics stores is moving – Gosh Comics is finally leaving their home in Great Russell Street after a quarter of a century to shiny new premises in Soho. The old store will have a cracking send off though, with Messrs Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill signing the new League of [...]

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The Misadventures Of Moore And Morrison….

Saturday, July 16, 2011

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The Adventures Of Morrison and Moore – from Journalin Comix (found via F-Yeah Grant Morrison): ♪ He’s got no hair!♪ ♪ He’s got all the hair!♪ ♪ He’s a chaos magician!♪ ♪ He’s got Nyarlathotep nesting in his beard!♪ “So this comic was born out of a conversation that somehow turned to the topic of [...]

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Moore gets animated at the Barbican

Friday, July 15, 2011

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As part of the Barbican’s Watch Me Move season of animation they invited Alan Moore and music producer Paul Smith to contribute. Parissima from the Barbican tells us that they gave both of them complete artistic freedom to come up with their own event for the series and the result is a “tribute to the [...]

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A couple of extraordinary gentlemen chat – Pádraig talks to Alan Moore about the new LOEG Century

Thursday, July 14, 2011

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Our resident expert on all things Alan Moore, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, talked on the phone to the man himself for an interview with the 3am site a few weeks back (which you should go and read if you haven’t already). And while they were chatting Alan was also kind enough to talk to Pádraig specifically [...]

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Alan Moore…. talks the League later this week

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

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Alan Moore lauds it over his (and others) creations in this great bit of art by Lady Sith. (Via 2000AD Online). And that gives us all the excuse we need to trail a nice little interview coming up on Thursday between Alan and our man in Ireland Padraig O’Mealoid. Come back first thing on the [...]

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Gary Spencer Millidge talks his new Alan Moore book

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

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The excellent Gary Spencer Millidge, creator and publisher of the Strangehaven comics among many other accomplishments, has a new book out next month, Alan Moore: Storyteller, which we’re all very much looking forward to reading. His publisher Ilex has been busy posting up a set of ten video segments recorded at the recent Bristol Comics [...]

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