Business of education and the perfect art form

Excerpts from The Face n.91, November 1987. A gorgeous George Michael was on the cover. 

We were in the midst of the Watchmen phenomenon, of course! 

[...] Back in Northampton the career of the Watchmen maker has followed a curious parallel lo Dr Manhattan’s - a junior lab technician who accidentally steps into an Intrinsic Field Generator, to be instantly transformed to a superman. Beginning his literary life - according to his biography - at the Co-op Hide and Skin division hacking up sheep carcasses, Alan Moore is now all too accustomed to badgering journalists (to whom he is very polite) and TV teams. They come, lured by his six foot, hair-filled features and his unique literary offering to the comic book audience - a moral interpretation of their world. However, fame has effected little change on his outlook. 
"In many ways I see myself in the business of education, there's a huge, hungry audience out there — particularly kids — looking for knowledge that the education system just isn’t providing. Children are maturing faster now because they have to, it's a survival trait in this day and age. I think that parents will soon stop looking misty and forlorn saying ‘Oh they grow up so fast these days’ and accept we're heading into the most rapidly transforming period in human history. Industrial society is now on the way out and something new is coming in. We must have the mental apparatus to deal with it." 

After some brief forays into the media apparatus, including Fashion Beast, a screenplay for Malcolm McLaren, Moore now seems fully redeemed to the comic strip as his genre. There is talk of more novels. 
"The comic seems to me the perfect art form for the Eighties. It's a very small package, and information tends to come in smaller and smaller packages these days. Comics combine the best of novels and films in that they have an engaging, involving visual track, but are capable of greater density than a film. A complex film may require several viewings to pick up all the details, but a comic is in the hands of the audience: you can enjoy it at your own speed." [...]