In this excerpt Moore talks about the comics contained in the book and his final comics work. With a bit of surprise revelation, too.
Read the complete piece
HERE.
Alan Moore: "Ben
Wickey’s amazing ‘Great Enchanters’ pages could have come from one of
those improving boys’ weekly papers like Look & Learn, while the
late, great Kevin O’Neill’s scurrilous “Adventures of Alexander” is from
the more working-class tradition of weekly comics like the Beano or
Dandy. I should point out, though, that the Bumper Book isn’t and was
never intended to be my final work in comics.
My final work in
comics, completed in 2018, was the fourth and last volume of The League
of Extraordinary Gentlemen with Kevin O’Neill. I’d finished writing all
of the Bumper Book’s comic strip material by the spring of 2014, and the
whole book by 2015—it’s just taken us ten years to find all the artists
and for them to complete the work to such a spectacularly high
standard.
There may also be other comic book work out there, as
yet unpublished, but volume four of The League was my last comic strip
work, and was also, I think, a fond and comprehensive farewell to the
medium. The Bumper Book, commenced around 2007, was always seen as a
beautiful and accessible grimoire that happened to contain some comic
strip material. It was intended purely as a statement about magic,
rather than as a statement about comics."
The interview is available
HERE.