The Comedian and... Groucho Marx

Groucho Marx.

Excerpt from an interview with Dave Gibbons published the 15th of June on Entertainment Weekly.

Dave Gibbons: The one thing we knew about the character of the Comedian was he couldn’t look like the Joker. He couldn’t look like a deranged clown. So I thought, “Who else would be a comedian? Who could I think of?” The one that leaped to mind was Groucho Marx because he had the mustache and the cigar and the kind of slicked back hair. So he was very much a toughened-up version of Groucho Marx, which was what I had in mind. 

The complete interview is available here.

The Ghosts of Watling Street and... Alan Moore

Frame from The Ghosts of Watling Street video.

The Ghosts of Watling Street, a song by Oddfellow's Casino included in their upcoming new album Oh, Sealand, features the voice of... Alan Moore. Moore also briefly appears in the song's video.

Oh, Sealand will be released July 14th.

Frame from The Ghosts of Watling Street video.

H.P. Lovecraft: foresightful thinker

The Call of Cthulhu & Other Weird Stories

Above a small excerpt from the 7-page preface, dated 4 October 2016, written by Alan Moore for H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu & Other Weird Stories published by The Folio Society.

[...] The hindsight of almost a hundred years exposes H.P. Lovecraft as one of the twentieth century's most radical experimental writers despite the cobwebbed traditionalist disguise, as well as one of its most staggeringly original and worryingly foresightful thinkers. The infectious swoon of his delirious prose and his hallucinatory ideas evoke in the susceptible an escalating ecstasy of trepidation, like some legendarily unbalancing variety of absinthe that cannot be reproduced and isn't manufactured any more. [Alan Moore]

Gene Ha about Alan Moore

Art by Gene Ha and Zander Cannon.

Excerpt from an interview with the amazing GENE HA, well-known for his work with Moore on Top Ten series.

“It’s part of Alan Moore’s theory that the imaginary realm is one giant realm. [...] They’re all connected together inside of one giant glowing world, so it had to kind of reference present day ideas and past ideas and just mash them together. If you look at any of his recent projects, it’s all about that mash-up of everything from our imagination existing at once. It’s a big theme of his.

[... ] He is literally the fastest creative mind I’ve ever worked with, and I’ve worked with some really creative minds.” [... ] When I’m having a conversation with him and he throws out ideas, I can’t keep up. He’ll literally leave me in the dust.”

The complete article is available HERE.

Alan Moore by Werther Dell'Edera

Art by Werther Dell'Edera.

Above, a shining portrait of Alan Moore drawn by Italian superstar artist WERTHER DELL'EDERA who is well known to the American audience for his art on several series published by Marvel, DC and Image Comics. He is a regular collaborator of Sergio Bonelli Editore.

More info about Dell'Edera's Art on his blog, HERE.