The Sinister Ducks

The Sinister Ducks.

Track A: March Of The Sinister Ducks.

Track B: Old Gangsters Never Die.

Format: 7". Situation Two, UK. August 1983.

More details HERE.

Dispelling Northampton's veil of anonymity

The Show is... coming soon! Photo by Mitch Jenkins.

Excerpt from an article published today on BBC.com, here.

Alan Moore: [...] Everything in the film is a product of Northampton and my imaginations from living there for 65 years. I wanted to capture the oddness of the town and its importance. The film presents an alternative Northampton. 

My hope is that the film will dispel... [Northampton's] veil of anonymity.

Alan Moore in New Scientist

Moore portrait by Mitch Jenkins.

New Scientist issue 3207 (cover date 8 December 2018) includes a two-page article by Rowan Hooper under the headline “Magic and science fuel Middle England cult hero”.

Below some selected excerpts. 

Alan Moore: [...] Magic, in a certain sense, is the palaeontology of science. It’s where science comes from. [...]

Science is the most beautiful and elegant tool that humanity has yet developed with which to actually investigate the physical universe, to measure it, to test it. Science evolved out of magic. [...]

[Talking about Eternalism] If you think that every second is eternal, don’t do anything that you can’t live with forever. [...]

The Show... coming soon!

Posted the 11th of December on Facebook Alan Moore Official Page:

Although this is my first attempt at working seriously in cinema, the audience may want to know how it connects with my just-recently-concluded comic book career. The answer, as I see it, is “not very much at all”: this is completely fresh, with staggering new possibilities for mesmerism and immersive storytelling.
Then again, those seeking bleak dystopias in my narratives will be relieved to learn that this, occurring in the recently collapsed town of Northampton, is a fine example, with as many otherworldly characters as one might reasonably expect.
And yes, there is a superhero, but not like you think.

This hasn’t been adapted from work that was never meant for cinema; this is me and the talented, fantastic people that I’m working with, attempting to make the most stunning piece of British film that anyone has seen in years.

This is The Show, and we’re doing it right here.

 
Alan Moore

Swamp things

Art by Stephen R. Bissette (left) and Rick Veitch (right).

Above and below, two amazing sketches realized respectively by Stephen R. Bissette and Rick Veitch on the copy in my possession of Saga of The Swamp Thing book six. 

Published here with the artists' permission.

Art by Stephen R. Bissette.

Art by Rick Veitch.

The Bearded One by Armando Rossi

Art by Armando Rossi.

Italian comic book artist, illustrator and painter ARMANDO ROSSI did it... again! 

Above, a new powerful portrait of Alan Moore by Rossi (the first one is available here).

Grazie, Armando!

For more info about Armando Rossi: Website - Facebook - Instagram

Top 10 sketches by Gene Ha

Art by Gene Ha.

Above and below you can admire two wonderful copic marker sketch commissions of Top Ten characters (Toybox and Smax) by the incredible GENE HA done for Dutch Comic Con in Utrecht, Netherlands.

Art by Gene Ha.

Alan Moore by Fabio Abbreccia

Art by Fabio Abbreccia.

Above, a stunning portrait of Alan Moore by Italian artist FABIO ABBRECCIA.

More info about Abbreccia here and here. His Facebook page here.

Alan Moore: The Birth Caul photos

Above and below, 2 (of 4) photos from The Birth Caul (A Shamanism of Childhood), a spoken word performance which was staged at the Old County Court in Newcastle upon Tyne on 18 November 1995 with music by David J and Tim Perkins.

I found the photos on Locus+ site: you can find all of them HERE.

Moore 65 and... little gifts from Sardinia

Art by Manuelle Mureddu.

Best wishes to the Bearded Bard of Northampton!!! :)

And... little gifts from my Sardinian friends and talented artists: above, a iconic portrait by Manuelle Mureddu and, below, a red sketch by Nicola Testoni. Thanks to Manuelle and Nicola.

Again... TANTI AUGURI, Alan! :)

Art by Nicola Testoni.

Alan Moore on Twin Peaks season 3

Excerpt from an interview published in August on PaleyMatters.org, HERE.

Alan Moore: Yes, I was a huge admirer of the first two seasons of Twin Peaks. I greatly enjoyed season two’s closing episode, and subsequently arrived at an interpretation of Fire, Walk With Me that, to me, was satisfying and answered all of my really important questions about the series. At the end of last year I watched the box-set of season three, and without wishing to denigrate all of the perfectly legitimate reasons why people loved that (presumably) final season, I’d have to say that with the exception of a few arresting images and atmospheres, I kind of wish I hadn’t bothered. Elements that I either hadn’t noticed or which hadn’t especially bothered me the first time, like the fact that the titular town is presumably twinned with Midsomer in that both have tons of bizarre murders and absolutely no black people, seemed a lot more intrusive in season three.

Another thing that stood out was Lynch’s customary Bizarro-Republican stance, whereby the intrusive supernatural evil in his stories always seems to be firmly rooted in the underclass. Structurally, it also seemed that there was rather a lot of irrelevant padding, notably the slapstick “Dougie Jones” digression, which didn’t seem to have anything atmospherically or thematically to connect it to the main narrative in any meaningful way.

Overall it seemed to me, as a large amount of Lynch’s later work does, to be relying on disconnected set-pieces and ultimately not saying very much. This may, of course, be a fault with me rather than with David Lynch, but while some of the most arresting and affecting moments in Lynch’s work have seemed to be plucked straight from the director’s subconscious mind and dreamlife, the ones that have best worked for me are those moments that, while dreamlike, work within the context of the overall narrative: for me, the dead man who is still standing upright in Blue Velvet or the whole of Henry’s collapsing and hallucinating mental landscape in Eraserhead work perfectly within their contexts, while a golden Laura-Palmer-infused egg sent from another dimension to what is apparently a nuclear test-site, which then hatches into a sort of insect-frog hybrid that subsequently crawls into the mouth of a sleeping young girl who, unless I missed something, is never seen or referred to again, really doesn’t, at least for me. If everything is weird, then, relatively speaking, nothing is weird. All of this is, of course, entirely subjective, and it may well be that the season three of Twin Peaks that I watched was significantly worse than the one everybody else was witness to.

The complete interview is available HERE.

Alan Moore by J.D. Thompson

Art by J.D. Thompson.

Above, a strong pencil drawing portrait of Alan Moore by artist J.D. Thompson.
More details HERE.

Master of Reality by Nicola Testoni

Master of Reality, exclusive print by Nicola Testoni. Info: contact the artist.

Painter and sculptor NICOLA TESTONI, who illustrated the Italian edition of The Mindscape of Alan Moore, has created an extra portrait of Alan Moore (above): titled Master of Reality, it's available as a limited edition print directly from the artist. 

You can contact him HERE: he will add a touch of colour and sign it.

Alan Moore on The Prisoner

The Prisoner

Excerpt from Part one of the interview published on Paley Matters in August: Moore talks about The Prisoner and its huge impact on him and his work.

The complete interview is available here. Part 2, here. 

Alan Moore: [...] one of the things I learned was that one should preferably craft narratives that move towards a satisfying and meaningful conclusion. Another thing I learned was that it was possible to write stories that affected the audience on other levels than just the simple resolution of their plot elements; that there were levels of symbolism and association and self-reflexivity which could be built into a narrative that would enable the viewer or reader to enjoy the experience in a more intense and multileveled way. Perhaps most importantly, it taught me that a creator should never be afraid to pitch their work high, without worrying about it going over the heads of the audience: in my experience, work that the audience already understands and is comfortable with will not teach them anything, and thus deprives them of that thrill-of-the-new that is, for me, the central pleasure and purpose of all art. I believe that art only happens at the interface of the artist and the audience, which is to say the work itself, and I further believe that if they don’t have to do any of that work, if they don’t have to stretch themselves a little in order to metabolise what they’re reading or watching, then the audience will not find the work as enjoyable as they might have done. So, The Prisoner taught me not to condescend to my audience or assume that they were any less intelligent than I was. It taught me to dare to be difficult, and eventually led me to a position where I feel that the most precious thing about art is its difficulty, and that difficulty’s overcoming.

[...] While all my work probably has the influence of The Prisoner in it somewhere, this would be entirely in how the story is told, rather than in its content or thematic elements. Practically every intelligent or informed person during that decade would have been expressing opinions about technology and nursing nuclear anxieties that were identical to McGoohan’s, and given that the 1980s were an even more perilous stretch of the Cold War than the 1960s had been, then it seemed an appropriate issue to make a part of Watchmen. I can’t think of any direct or indirect influence beyond that."

The complete Part 1 is available here. Part 2, here.

Halo Jones in colour

Halo Jones: Alan Moore (writer), Ian Gibson (artist), Barbara Nosenzo (colorist).

Excerpt from an article published in 2000 AD site, here.

2018 sees a 2000 AD classic remastered and in colour for the very first time.

[...] Originally published in black and white, the re-releases will feature extensively remastered artwork and, for the very first time, will be published in colour. Italian newcomer Barbara Nosenzo is responsible for bringing colour to the world of Halo Jones. [...] 

Barbara Nosenzo: Halo is a perfect example of black & white balance, and I constantly felt the responsibility of adding colours where there was no need for them!
[...] While reading the books for the first time, I started imagining atmospheres and details, and tried to put those on paper. I used some covers as reference, and then I worked on my own palette to bring Halo's world to life. I focused on creating colors for atmosphere, and I decided with my editor (Matt Smith) to choose different background tones for each book, to help define the three different stages of Halo's life (the Hoop, the Clara Pandy and the War).

Book one has a green, dirty background color to give you a feeling of uselessness and deterioration, that perfectly matches life on Hoop. Book two has a pale yellow tone, because its Clara Pandy time, apparently an age of luxury surrounding Halo. And finally, red tones for book three because it's all about the war. To obtain these effects, I used background layers, with a wrinkled paper texture turned in three different colours, each one for the specific book I was working on.

I think that colour is like soundtrack in a movie: it should enhance the feelings and underline particular moments. That's how I tried to use my palette, often using weird colours to define feelings (blue for sadness, green or purple for fear.)

The complete article is available here.

Dark King Moore by Paolo Massagli

Art by Paolo Massagli.

Above, a powerful, dark Alan Moore portrait - with a bit of HPL in - by Italian artist PAOLO MASSAGLI. 

Paolo Massagli is known for his indie works which combines horror with sensuality; his most recent comics have been published by Hollow Press (here).

Melinda Gebbie's memoirs

From left to right: Lucia Joyce, Melinda Gebbie and Alan Moore. Art by Melinda Gebbie.

Excerpt from The NeneQuirer interview with Melinda Gebbie. 

The complete article is available here.

Melinda Gebbie: "I started writing a diary in my twenties. I thought if I write about my life it will get more interesting. And it did. [...]

This has been a very long project. I transcribed everything by hand then realised that was stupid but I always had something against typing so I couldn’t make myself type. I had four different typists. It’s been edited by a really hot pro, Donna Bond, she did a spiffing job. [...]

There was 1300 pages of pure transcription, I whacked off (edited away) 800 of them. The format I think is going to be two books of about 300 pages each. The first one will be about my life in San Francisco until I left it in 1984 and the next will be about the weird land of England up until Alan and I met and started working together.

[...] The book is the main thing. If you live with a champion swimmer and every day you go out to the paddling pool and try to get a little better at frog kicking… I can only get with my own language if I am isolated from the undertow of a certain culturally-valuable husband. It’s not his fault but still…"

The complete article is available here. 

Melinda Gebbie's site, HERE.

The Mindscape of Alan Moore: Italian book edition

Nella mente di Alan Moore (Oblò APS) - Art by Nicola Testoni.

Coming out at the end of September, Oblò APS (an Italian association aiming at promoting Comic Art), will publish an Italian book transcribing Alan Moore's narration from The Mindscape of Alan Moore documentary, written and directed by DeZ Vylenz.

The book, translated and edited by smoky man, includes 14 brand new illustrations by Italian painter and sculptor NICOLA TESTONI who also painted an amazing oil portrait of Moore used as cover. Testoni's art combines realism with a touch of surrealism providing an intriguing visual comment and counterpoint to Moore's words.

For more info and requests:
Oblò site (HERE) - Oblò Facebook page (HERE)
Nicola Testoni's site

Mental Magic Marble Moore. Art by Nicola Testoni. Oil on canvas.

Nella mente di Alan Moore, page 28 and 29. Words: Moore; illustration: Nicola Testoni.

Book backcover.

Alan Moore Pandemonium by Benjamin Vareille

Art by Benjamin Vareille.

Above, Alan Moore Pandemonium by French artist Benjamin Vareille.
In 2016 the illustration has been used as cover for issue n.18 of Gonzaï magazine.

Silkscreen poster available to purchase HERE.

Moore in the Eighties

From left to right: Ian Gibson and Alan Moore (November 1986).

Above, from The Forbidden Planet Archive, a fantastic photo of Alan Moore with Ian Gibson, dated 1986.

This year Forbidden Planet celebrates its 40th anniversary. The original Forbidden Planet opened at 23 Denmark Street, (the famous ‘Tin Pan Alley’) in the heart of London's West End on July 22nd 1978.

You can enjoy the complete FB archive HERE. Eighties archive: here.

• 2000AD The 1983 Judge Dredd Annual signing, 21 August 1982

• 2000AD The 1985 Judge Dredd Annual signing, 18 August 1985

• 2000AD Mega-signing, 16 August 1986

• Alan Moore and Ian Gibson signing Halo Jones Book 3, 22 November 1986

• Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons signing Watchmen, 24 October 1987

• Heartbreak Hotel signing, 16 April 1988

• Moore & Bolland signing Killing Joke, 21 May 1988

• Aargh! signing, 15 October 1988

Search for Moore, here.

2000AD Mega-signing.

Moore Against da System by Officina Infernale

Art by Officina Infernale (a.k.a. Andrea Mozzato)

Above a very intense, punk version of Alan Moore drawn by Italian über artist OFFICINA INFERNALE (a.k.a. Andrea Mozzato).

"Without any planning, he turned out the Moore version who's fucking angry at the comics majors... And obviously Moore is 100% right in his attitude!", Officina Infernale said.

More info regarding Officina Infernal: Tumblr page - Big Cartel.

Writing Watchmen in 1985!

Excerpt from comic book store zine Telegraph Wire which included a long interview from SDCC 1985 with... Alan Moore! The complete interview is available HERE.

Alan Moore: [...] WATCHMEN is my first project to actually use what I’ve learned. WATCHMEN is very, very structured. It’s twelve issues long.

I know exactly what the image in the last panel is going to be. I can see it as a whole from beginning to end. I’m really pleased with the way it’s working.

I’ve been working closely with Dave Gibbons on the project. Dave’s putting so much into it. It’s not just the writing; we’re coming together on a level of pure story-telling. I mean, the way Dave’s drawing things affects the way I’m writing it. The way he’s laying out pages is affecting the way I’m writing it.

It’s a really amazing experience. I’m enjoying it immensely. [...]

We’re trying to step back from the superhero a little bit; we want to take a fresh look at the idea of being a superhero. Joe Schuster and Jerry Siegel brought out SUPERMAN in 1939. There were no other superheroes and I think that for us today, it’s very difficult to imagine what the impact of that character was; since Superman in comics, the sky is full of flying men. It’s not quite the same. The whole superhero idea has grown up with cliches around it and that has smothered it in a way. You can no longer see the woods for the trees.

What me and Dave have tried to do with WATCHMEN is to somehow get back to that point where we stepped away from the conventional idea of superheroes. I wanted to do something that used the superhero in a very, very different way to the way it’s been used before: psychologically.

One of the main things is to see what effect a superhero would have upon the world. In the DC and Marvel universes, they don’t have any effect. They’re all extraordinary beings, but the world they live in is very much the same as ours.

In WATCHMEN, we try to think it through politically and socially. We’ve got a character called Mr. Manhattan who is the only actual superhero in the book.

He’s the only actual one with powers. He emerges about 1965 and from that point on, the world is different forever. Since he’s strongly aligned to the American military, obviously, he’s like a step beyond the neutron bomb. Instantly, the balance of world power changes.

I think if the American government had found a superhero, they would have been a little bit more adventuresome in their foreign policy whereas the Russians would most certainly have been a little more timid.

In the world we’re dealing with, America won the Vietnamese war. The Russians have not invaded Afghanistan. Basically, they’re in the Kremlin under the table with their fingers in their ears. They’re terrified and the only option that they have left is mutually assured destruction. Their backs are against the wall.

You’ve reached a point where the doomsday clock is seconds away from midnight. It’s closer to disaster than our own world is. That is one of the main themes of the book: it’s this paranoid, frightening world that’s just getting closer and closer to Armageddon.

And it’s all because of this one superhero.

There are other costumed heroes in the book, but most of them are retired because I don’t think that the American legal system, or any legal system, would support superheroes. It would just cause so many problems. If you allow one guy in a mask to go around beating people up, anyone in a mask can beat people up. It just wouldn’t work. So most of the superheroes have been forced into retirement – apart from those who are valuable to the military, which includes Dr. Manhattan. That is where it all begins.

There’s a lot of different threads in it. One of the things that ties the entire story together is a murder mystery that runs all the way through the plot.

I can’t tell you an awful lot without giving away the plot.

We’ve got some interesting characters. There’s Rorschach who’s a really psychotic vigilante. Whereas in most comic books the psychopath will get angry, a real psychopath doesn’t get angry. A psychopath will break your arm and smile… or never react at all. [...]

The complete interview is available HERE.

Extraordinary Gentlemen by David Hitchcock

Art by David Hitchcock.

Above, a stunning commission piece by great British comic book artist and illustrator DAVID HITCHCOCK portraying The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

(Grazie David for sending me the picture!)

For more info about David Hitchcock: Blog - Twitter page

Alan Moore by Marcello Albano

Art by Marcello Albano.

Above, a portrait of Alan Moore by Italian comic book writer and artist Marcello Albano.

Marcello was a friend of mine, a gentleman, a great soul, a musician and a real comics lover and expert. He suddenly passed away in 2017 and... I miss him a lot.

In the past days I found two CDs and letters he sent me in 2001 full of his works and drawings. One of the CD cover is the Alan Moore portrait you can see above. It is dedicated to my old comics site Ultrazine.

Marcello was an admirer of Moore's works with a huge interest for esotericism. He also contributed with a short text to the Alan Moore: Portrait book (read here) I co-edited in 2003.

Trio of traitors and tricksters

Art by Oliver Pulumbarit.

Above, a "trio of traitors and tricksters" co-created by Alan Moore drawn by Oliver Pulumbarit, a Philippine newspaper writer-editor and occasional comic book-maker.

 

From left to right: Ultima from Top Ten, Ozymandias from Watchmen and TAO from WildCATs. The original drawing is available on Pulumbarit's Deviantart page, here.

John Constantine and Sting

Except from an interview published in the November 1993 issue of Wizard magazine. 

Alan Moore: But I can state categorically that the character only existed because Steve [Bissette] and John [Totleben] wanted to do a character that looked like Sting. Having been given that challenge, how could I fit Sting into Swamp Thing? I have an idea that most of the mystics in comics are generally older people, very austere, very proper, very middle class in a lot of ways. They are not at all functional on the street. It struck me that it might be interesting for once to do an almost blue-collar warlock. Somebody who was streetwise, working class, and from a different background than the standard run of comic book mystics. Constantine started to grow out of that.

 

2018: Sting will pen the foreword to the Constantine, Hellblazer: 30th Anniversary Celebration commemorative collection to be published this October. More HERE.

John Constantine aka Sting.

Alan Moore by Gianmaria Caschetto

Art by Gianmaria Caschetto.

Every now and then I received unexpected emails including an Alan Moore portrait.

Above you can see one of them, a nice sketch illustration by comics blogger Gianmaria Caschetto.

"[Alan Moore is] my favourite wizard", Caschetto wrote.

From Hell and... beyond

Excerpt from an interview published on EW.com on May 31, 2018.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Have you been in contact with Alan Moore at all about this?
Eddie Campbell: I’ve told Alan I’m doing it. I was like “Alan, if there’s anything you want to fix, you’ve gotta fix it now, this is your chance.” He hasn’t said anything so far. I might jog his memory by getting the stuff to him in the next week or two. If there’s any dialogue that’s wrong, now’s his time to fix it. He’s always talked about adding another appendix. When I spoke to him last month, he said “Eddie, maybe it’s time we do that other appendix, this is the only time we’ll be able to do it.” That’ll be a whole other dozen pages of illustration, but he wants to bring it up to date because in the last 30 years there’s been a lot of developments in Ripper-ology. Even though this was a crime that happened in 1888, every second year there’s a new book about it, where somebody’s found a new culprit. Five, six years ago, Patricia Cornwell went to huge expense buying Walter Sickert’s paintings to get DNA evidence from the paintings and compare it with DNA evidence from the murder site just to prove it was Walter Sickert. But since then somebody’s come out with another suspect. Everybody thinks they’ve got the last word on it. We did this 24-page appendix to the original From Hell called Dance of the Gull-Catchers, in which we ridiculed all the theories, including our own. It’s a grand piece of postmodernism, where you finish the book of “this is our theory, here’s why it’s right” by going “well no it isn’t, nobody’s right, it’s all baloney.” That was great fun doing that, we had a riot doing that in an almost comedic style. Alan wants to do another one where he brings it up to date. I’m not promising that, because we’ll probably have to beat him up to get it out. We’ll have to tie him to the computer and make him type it out. But we’ll see, it’s a possibility.

The complete interview is available HERE.

Read also Colourized From Hell.

Cthulu rules

Art by Kevin O'Neill.

Above, an Alan Moore "Cthulu" sketch portrait by Kevin O'Neill. From Central Comics Paris' Instagram page.

Gene Ha on Alan Moore

Excerpt from an interview I did, via email, in November 2004. 

Translated and printed in Italy on Vertigo Presenta n. 45 magazine (Magic Press).

Alan Moore, Gene Ha and Zander Cannon collaborated on books such as Top 10 and Top 10: The Forty-Niners.

How is not only working with but co-creating with a comics living legend such as writer Alan Moore?

Gene Ha: Intimidating. He's a bit like Gandalf, but he talks like a British plumber instead of a British professor. He's perfectly at ease with himself, and he makes you feel comfortable too.

He's full of wonderful stories, and he loves to hear a good stories. You really can't help but notice how good he is at understanding how to tell stories. He's always aware how any plotline will affect the story for 10 or 20 issues ahead. And something new always pops up on every page.

I'll feed him ideas, and I'm always surprised by which ones he'll use and how he'll change them. I had an idea for Superman as an alcoholic, with super-vomit. Alan took that idea, but applied it to a Japanese movie monster instead. That's how we ended up with Gograh [see picture above].

I'd love to meet him someday, but so far I've only exchanged letters and talked to him on the phone.

Book Shambles Live at the Royal Albert Hall

Book Shambles live

Alan Moore will join Book Shambles live on Monday June 4th at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

It is a special live version of the popular Book Shambles podcast conducted by award-winning comedians and bibliophiles Robin Ince and Josie Long.

More info HERE and HERE.

Colourized From Hell

Below you can read an exclusive report by writer and comics journalist Koom Kankesan about his meeting with From Hell's artist and co-creator Eddie Campbell during the latest TCAF.

They talked about... the upcoming colourized From Hell edition!

You can also read Koom's coverage of the TCAF at Comicon.com site, HERE.

Grazie, Koom!

Koom Kankesan: "I was really thrilled to meet Eddie Campbell. He’s a unique and interesting talent. I don’t know that there’s anybody else that can quite do what he does with his Alec material. And of course… From Hell has remained my favourite graphic novel for a long time now – it is a remarkable achievement. In person, Eddie is charming and lively. He has a beautiful Steranko-like shock of white hair and is even more dapper than his semi-autobiographical renderings, if you can believe it. He’s a bit of a joker and I’ve told him a few times how much I love From Hell. So, when he replied that he’s in the process of colouring it, I wanted to do one of those cartoon things where the character is floored and his feet angle up into the air beside an exhaust of air.

I’ve always thought of the black and white renderings as unique to From Hell. I had assumed that the fine line work and the moody atmosphere evoking London Victoriana were rendered that way on purpose, as if in imitation of engravings or illustrations in Victorian tabloid newspapers. Eddie found this observation interesting but I don’t think he agreed. I objected that colouring it would ruin the feel of the work and I think I might have been so passionate in my initial views that it perhaps even made him wince. Lovable and charming as Eddie is, the last thing you want to do is make him wince. He showed me some of the coloured pages on his laptop and the colours were lovely – he’s always had a great facility for paint and colour – but it did change the mood and atmosphere of some of the scenes. I said it’s like colourizing black and white films and asked him which he preferred – the black and white version of ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ or the colourized version. He said that he hadn’t seen the colourized version of that film but he had seen the colourized version of ‘Key Largo’ and quite enjoyed it. I mentioned Apocalypse Now and Apocalypse Now Redux. Those were the kinds of reservations I had.

Eddie also said he wanted to fix the continuity. I was trying to figure out what that meant because I couldn’t really remember any continuity problems in the plot or writing. He grabbed my collected edition of From Hell and flipped to the early, quite remarkable chapter where Netley and Gull are driving around London and Gull discourses on all the historical resonance. He pointed out that the chapter takes place in August and therefore it made no sense for Netley to wear a scarf. He also pointed out that they were atop a very elaborate coach, one that was more like a limousine, and would thus draw a lot of attention. Later on in the book, I think they’re on a hansom cab instead. He also pointed out a panel with a church where the perspective of the foreground and background don’t match. These were the things he wanted to address: more of an issue of accuracy and fidelity rather than continuity. Please see the following photos:

 

 

From Hell, selected pages. Art by Eddie Campbell.

The first volume of the colourized version is planned for September [by Top Shelf] and Eddie and I talked about possibly doing a phone interview then to discuss it in detail once it's out."

Rorschach by Dan Hipp

Art by Dan Hipp.

Above a gorgeous Rorschach by Dan Hipp.
"Hurm. 4x4 pen/ink, Prismacolor marker, colored pencil, acrylic, and a touch of photoshop for the screentone effect."

The Indelicates: Immoral earnings in the UK

Art by Kevin O'Neill.

A song from League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Century: 1969, pp. 72-74, performed by The Indelicates. Video below. Enjoy!