American Oligarch

In the past months, Seven Stories announced the world English acquisition of Darryl Cunningham’s new graphic biography of Elon Musk. 

The book, originally published in 2024 in France by Delcourt, will be published this Fall and contains an endorsement by Alan Moore, on the front cover and, extended, inside the book (see above and below)

Moore talked about Musk in a recent interview, too.

"[...]  If we wish to have an inhabitable future for us and our children and their children, then might I quietly suggest we stop electing and tolerating obvious fascist buffoons because we think they’re entertaining characters, as if they were housemates on Big Brother. This isn’t reality TV. This is reality, or what’s left of it. Let us instead protest and rail at these dribbling Nazi idiots to our last breath, rather than beam stupidly as Elon Musk ‘sends his heart out to us’ Nuremberg style. Let us point out that they are suicidal cretins when they insist that climate change is a Chinese hoax. Let us not give these witless fuckers an inch. [...] - Alan Moore

Watchmen page zero... in color

In the past days, Dave Gibbons was in Munich as special guest at the local Comic Festival. (19-22 June)

For that occasion, Gibbons drew a brand new Rorschach image (above) printed as special coaster and... colored, for the very first time, that famous Watchmen page zero, available as limited print at the show (see below)!

Wer überwacht die Überwacher?

Un-used Swamp Thing 21 cover

Art by Thomas Yeates

Few days ago, collector Richard Donnelly posted the above image on his CAF gallery. 

It's an un-used cover art by Tom Yeates for the seminal Swamp Thing The Anatomy Lesson issue, cover date February 1984. 

Donnelly writes: "This un-inked pencil cover with two surgeons and a nurse about to vivisect Swamp Thing was likely rejected by Comic-Code or DC editorial. Signed with note and sketch by Thomas Yeates."

 

The official cover - now a classic! - was actually less direct and explicit.

Watchmen by John Amor

Art by John Amor

Above and below, some great Watchmen art by Filipino illustrator/writer John Amor. Enjoy!

 

For more info about the artist: Instagram - Linktr.ee - CAF Gallery

Art by John Amor

Das Grosse Wenn

Above, cover for the German edition of The Great When to be published by Carcosa this fall.

I confess I find the image quite... mesmerizing. Gut gemacht! 

Yuggoth: unpublished Lovecraftian tales

Art by Enrique Breccia. Not related.

There had been rumors in the past, but few weeks ago the topic resurfaced, on Reddit.
But let us take one thing at a time. 

Moore had already said that, despite his retirement from the world of comics, there could still be some unpublished comics written by him out there.  

Alan Moore, in 2024:  [...] "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."

In particular, after the conclusion of Providence it was rumored that he had written a sort of epilogue or spin-of linked to the Lovecraft lore. 

Well, as reported on Reddit, in 2024 Garth Ennis admitted  that... it was all true. This happened in a video interview that the acclaimed Northern Irish writer did for Monsters, Madness and Magic channel, posted on Youtube the 14th of November 2024 (watch it around minute 50). 

Monsters, Madness and Magic: [...] Have you and Alan had a chance to work together previously? I probably just slipped my mind if you guys had...
Garth Ennis: Well not not directly but Alan wrote a series of Crossed which was that horror story that I created some 10 or 15 years ago. Alan did a sort of a 100 years in the future version of that... and it was very gratifying that he would be interested enough to do that... 

Someday, you might see a series from Avatar, the publisher who sadly semi imploded and seem to have ceased publishing. But there's a series called Yuggoth, and it's based on the work that Alan did - Providence, Neonomicon, and some of the other Avatar books he did based on his love of H. P. Lovecraft.

And Yuggoth was going to be an anthology series. I do hope people see it. Alan wrote the first storyline.

Mine would have been the second. You also have Kieron Gillen in there and Si Spurrier. All this is written and drawn.

I do hope Avatar will publish it one day because it's tremendous stuff. And it was lovely to be able to play in the extremely dark and unpleasant universe that Alan had been able to access through his interest in the lore of Cthulhu and H. P. Lovecraft and so on." 

Later on, on Bluesky, Kieron Gillen confirmed the thing, sort of: 

Kieron Gillen: "My stuff isn't complete, it should be stressed - it only exists in script. [...] I don’t want to reveal stuff that Garth hasn’t - but I believe all the other stuff is, and more."

So, I tried to contact someone at Avatar to get some feedback: no answer.

Then I started thinking about the possibile artists involved in the project. And I remembered that years ago there were rumors about Gabriel Andrade, who worked with Moore on Crossed +100.  

So I contacted him and... 

Andrade replied: "Yeah! I was part of this work!

The story is a prequel that reveals much of the lives of dark characters who appear in Neonomicon and Providence, showing their experiences with the occult and ancient magic. I did the art for two entire arcs of 6 issues both. The first, written by Alan Moore and the other by another author, who I can't reveal. They are incredible stories.

Unfortunately I have no idea if this will ever be published."

What else to say... we need those stories published... the sooner the better!!!

Maybe we could put a dark spell on that! :D