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Jul 15, 2025

Knuckle rings

Art by LRNZ
Below, final question from a fantastic interview included in the great Arthur No. 4 (May 2003). You can read the complete interview HERE
So, Alan, now to the really important question. What on earth are those knuckle rings? 
Alan Moore: My girlfriend Melinda Gebbie got me a wonderful piece of jointed finger armor. It looked wonderful, but completely stupid on its own. It looked like I'd damaged my finger and I'd got some sort of prosthesis. So I had to fill up the other fingers. It became an obsession. It's probably the Gothic flourish of a man in later life. You get to a certain age in life and you find that it pays to draw attention away from your face. [laughs] They look pretty good, and also, nobody messes with you. Not that they did anyway. My hands are registered weapons. They do weigh quite a bit, all that metal-I think it's slowly making my arms longer. [chuckles]
So, picture if you will: The cobbled back alleys of Northampton, as twilight settles, imagine me loping along the alleyways, my knuckles scraping against the cobbles and sending up bright,shearing swathes of sparks. A chilling image... 
 
All Arthur magazine issues are currently available HERE in pdf forms
So... download them all! There is a lot of Moore in:
An interview with shamanic psychonaut/journalist DANIEL PINCHBECK, author of the just-released Breaking Open the Head. Artwork by Alan Moore.
 
ALAN MOORE gives Arthur a historical-theoretical-autobiographical earful on the subject of magic and art. Extra-long feature convo with Jay Babcock, with a portrait by John Coulthart and photos by Jose Villarrubia. Check out that finger armor! 
 
ALAN MOORE comments on what the US and UK governments have been up to lately
 
Kristine McKenna interviews BRIAN ENO on the eve of the release of his first solo album featuring vocals in decades. Illustration by John Coulthart. Plus, a celebration of the great domed one by Alan Moore
 
 “Bog Venus vs. Nazi Cock-Ring: Some Thoughts Concerning Pornography” by Alan Moore: a landmark eight-page essay/manifesto, with illustrations 
 
How (and why) to lucid dream — a conversation with cartoonist RICK VEITCH by Jay Babcock. Plus “Cartographer of the American Dreamtime,” an appreciation of Rick Veitch and his work by Alan Moore

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