The music of Alan Moore (in 2002)

Excerpt from a small interview published in Mojo magazine N.99, February 2002. 

[...] Mojo: What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album? 

"The Humors of..." by Lewis Furey. He’s an American artist who did a couple of albums, "Lewis Furey", and "The Humors of Lewis Furey". He was obviously influenced by the David Bowie glam scene, disco and leftfield Brecht stuff. 

[...] Mojo: What do you sing in the shower? 

Alan Moore: Most of my house is a hovel, but my bathroom is like something Alexander the Great would soak in. l was doing The Smiths yesterday, "How Soon ls Now?" l also tend to find meself doing Elvis Costello, Warren Zevon - it was "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" a couple of days ago.

Alan Moore by Ricardo García Hernanz

Art by Ricardo García Hernanz.

Above an inspired Alan Moore portrait by Spanish illustrator Ricardo García Hernanz.

More info about the artist here.

Alan Moore talks Doctor Who!

Vworp Vworp! Vol. 3 (cover by Martin Geraghty).

From editor Colin Brockhurst:
Volume 3 of Vworp Vworp!: exclusive in-depth interview with world’s greatest comics writer Alan Moore, free Dalek CD, new comic strips, and much more!
We’re back and this time with a special bumper 208-page edition! In this issue, we explore Alan Moore’s Doctor Who backup strips, published in Doctor Who Weekly and Monthly in 1980 and 1981. Featuring the Cybermen, the Autons and the Time Lords, these strips were not only Alan’s very first professional work, but would go on to influence both comics and Doctor Who in ways he could never have foreseen.
Here, Alan recalls his 1980 tale, Black Legacy: “I decided that if I couldn’t use Daleks then the next biggest Doctor Who enemy would probably be the Cybermen... As I understood it, the main part of the Cybermen ethos was efficiency, and a kind of a hygiene. Physical and mental disease would be completely unknown to the Cybermen. So I thought, what if there was something that could reintroduce these forgotten terrors to this race that has evolved beyond the fear of mental and physical illness?”

Vworp Vworp! is edited and designed by Colin Brockhurst
Published by Gareth Kavanagh/Malevilus Publications

You can buy a copy HERE.

SHITTY WATCHMEN!

From Rachel Dukes' website, here.

Shitty Watchmen is a formalist exercise analyzing the language of comics as utilized by Alan Moore and, more importantly, Dave Gibbons. Created by Dave Baker, Nicole Goux, Rachel Dukes, Malachi Ward, Nick Diaz, Emilie Vo, Sam Ancona, Chuck Kerr, Colby Bluth, Robert Negrete, and Sabrina Deigert, Shitty Watchmen seeks to scrutinize the masterful use of composition and panel breakdown within the most undeniably complex comic book ever created. The means by which these staggering artistic achievements are deconstructed? Super shitty drawings.

Thus...

Shitty Watchmen.

 

You can buy the book here; archive is available here.

Moore and Knockabout in 2017 (and beyond)

A page from Lost Girls. Art by Melinda Gebbie.

Excerpt from Brit Comics rock - Graphic novels coming from UK publishers in 2017 posted in Forbidden Planet blog.

[...] Tony [Bennett] from Knockabout warns us that these dates are rough at the moment, but of course we’ll have more on them closer to publication times:

Lost Girls, by Melinda Gebbie (expected October)
This will be a new edition, complete with a new cover and some thirty two new pages of art as well. 352 pages hardback. 30.5 x 23 cm. isbn 9780861662609

These titles are in the planning stage but there’s no fixed date quite yet:
[...] Absolute League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neil (date tbc)
This is probably a goer again, having been previously dismissed but happily now seems to be back on the planning board..

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume 4, by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
This will be serialised as six comics, but no start date is sorted as yet. Alan has the story in his head but has yet to write it, so it may not be until very late 2017. (again I’m pretty sure we – and probably every other comics site! – will be mentioning this one again when publication details are firmer)