Jun 30, 2022

Maxwell, O Gato Mágico: reprint!

Art by Raphael Salimena
In 2020 Brazilian publisher Pipoca e Nanquim made the impossible... possible, publishing a complete edition of... MAXWELL THE MAGIC CAT!!! In Portuguese of course.
 
So, above you can admire the new cover for the reprint edition of the volume, again by publisher Pipoca e Nanqui, to be released the 27th of July! 
As said, the Brazilian edition is still the only complete Maxwell edition in the world! Fantastic new cover art by artist Raphael Salimena.

For more info about the book and the artist: Instagram - Twitter
You can order O Gato Mágico here.

Special thanks to Érico for emailing me this great info!

Jun 21, 2022

Hayley Campbell on Death and From Hell

Excerpt from Hayley Campbell's excellent All the Living and the Dead book.
"[...] You aren't born knowing you will die. Someone has to break the news. I asked my dad if it was him, but he can't remember. [...] Maybe death came to you in the form of a goldfish or a grandparent. You might have processed mortality as much as you were able, or needed to, in the time it took for the fins to disappear in the swirl of a toilet bowl. I don't have one of those moments. I can't remember a time before death existed. Death was just there, everywhere, always. 
Maybe it began with the five dead women. Throughout my single digits, my dad - Eddie Campbell, a comic book artist - was working on a graphic novel called From Hell, written by Alan Moore. It's about Jack the Ripper and shows the full horror of his brutality in scratchy black and white. 'Jackarippy' was such a part of our lives that my tiny sister would wear the top hat to eat breakfast, and I would stand on tiptoes to study the crime scenes that were pinned to my dad's drawing board while trying to get him to agree to something Mum had said no to. There they were, the disembowelled women, the flesh torn from their faces and thighs. Next to them, the stark autopsy photographs, their sagging breasts and bellies, the pinched rugby-ball stitching from neck to groin. I remember looking up at them and feeling not shocked, but fascinated. I wanted to know what had happened. I wanted to see more. I wished the pictures were clearer, I wished they were in colour. Their situation was so removed from anything I knew of life that it was too other to be frightening - it was as alien to me there in tropical Brisbane, Australia, as the foggy London streets where they had lived. To look at those same photographs now is an entirely different thing - I see violence, the struggle and misogyny, the lost lives - but back then, I didn't have the emotional language to process something so terrible. [...]" - Hayley Campbell

Jun 10, 2022

Love advice for Nicolas Cage... well, sort of...

Alan Moore interviewed at his home in Northampton, England in early 2002 for Hotdog Magazine.
Alan Moore: [...] I do get some funny phone calls. Nicolas Cage phoned me up a few times because he likes my stuff. He seems nice enough, but the phoned me once to ask me for advice on his love life. It must be a lonely existence being a film star.
He was asking me if he should choose this girl over another girl he was seeing.
I just said, "I don't know." But I thing it worked out happily because he's not needed my advice since.

The complete interview is available HERE

Jun 8, 2022

Damned Andrew and... the narrator!

Yesterday, British comedian, musician, presenter, and writer Andrew O'Neill posted on Twitter an Alan Moore photo (below) with the following text:
Ladies and Gentlemen and the Gender-progressive, it gives us enormous joy to reveal the narrator of Damned Andrew.
BBC Radio 4, June 21st, 6:30pm (and the following three weeks...)
Available worldwide on BBC Sounds
Written by Andrew O'Neill and Tom DeVille (@Devilligan)
Radio sitcom BBC Radio 4 2022 4 episodes (1 series)
An "occult" sitcom by Andrew O'Neill. Also features Alan Moore.

For more info about Andrew O'Neill: Twitter - Wikipedia - Patreon

Jun 7, 2022

BBC Maestro comic book

See, above and below. From artist Christian Ward's Twitter page: "Had a nice gift from BBC Maestro, a cool little limited edition comic to celebrate Alan Moore’s Storytelling Course which I’ve been enjoying immensely. [...]" 
Unfortunately it seems that this limited ed is... well, very difficult to find. Poor collectors!

Jun 5, 2022

Alan Moore by Hannah Hildebrand

Art by Hannah Hildebrand
Above, oil portrait of the Bearded One by British artist Hannah Hildebrand.

For more info about the artist: InstagramRed Bubble

Jun 4, 2022

The page with the giant zipper and all the watchparts

Swamp Thing n.60, page 12. Art by 
From the stunning collection of Keith Veronese, above the extremely eye-popping page 12 from Swamp Thing n.60, "Loving the alien" memorable story! 
Extraordinary art by John Totleben!
Veronese writes: "In the midst of writing Watchmen, Alan Moore paired with the long-time illustrator/inker of his Swamp Thing run, John Totleben, for a one-off issue just months before Moore left the book. What was created is the issue entitled "Loving the Alien," with the name stemming from the David Bowie release of a year and a half before. In my mind, this issue stands out as the most adventurous and bizarre offering of the mainstream modern comics era. It features a mix of pen and ink, spray paint, found art including zippers and watchfaces, and other sundry materials to create the individual pages of the issue, in what one could consider a harbinger of the forthcoming work of Dave McKean. The process by which it was scripted is unique as well. To begin, Totleben created 11 pages and labeled them as A through K. He then sent them off to Alan Moore so that he could craft a story around them. Moore then wrote 11 additional pages to finish the story, with Totleben then providing the art for them.

An image of this piece of original art was included in the extra materials for Absolute Swamp Thing Vol. 3, along with the script for this issue and an essay from Totleben describing how it came into being. The letter designation for the page is unknown, but from the script devised by Alan Moore for this issue, it is noted to be of the initial batch of 11 sent by Totleben.

I feel this is easily one of Totleben's best pages from his tenure on Swamp Thing (and maybe the most adventurous of his career) - it is a standout page from a run that Totleben calls, "one of the greatest mainstream horror comics of all time." This page itself has a certain heft to it, with a plethora of watchfaces and even a zipper sturdily attached to a piece of roughly 11x17 illustration board. Glad to have this one, it has been one of my favorites on CAF for quite some time."

Jun 3, 2022

Pirate Moore by Silvia Ciccu

Art by Silvia Ciccu
Above, a colorful Pirate Moore by Italian illustrator Silvia Ciccu.

More info about the artist HERE.

Jun 1, 2022

Strange team

Art by Marat Mychaels
From Alan Moore's Forgotten Awesome: "In 2004, Robert Kirkman (of Walking Dead fame) started writing a new Youngblood series called Youngblood: Imperial. In this version, there are more than 1,000 Youngblood members in the expanding United States (it just swallowed up Canada).

Great Britain is next, but it has some heroes of its own who look like they have something to say about it. It wasn't a particularly interesting issue, but it doesn't matter because Kirkman left, claiming to be too busy, and it was just another version of Youngblood that lasted a single issue."
 
Above the final page from issue n.1, art by Marat Mychaels: (maybe) you can recognize some familiar faces. So, standing in the background, from left to right, it's Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis and Warren Ellis; in the foreground it's Neal Gaiman and... Alan Moore picking up a rabbit by the ears!

Well, comics can be crazy, we all know that!