Alan Moore is 72 years old now. Since the 1980s, he’s been celebrated as the greatest writer in comics history. But he’s done with all that. Full-time novelist now. Finally. Spends his days at home just writing, reading, and smoking “frightening,” “staggering,” “saturating” amounts of weed.
“I use it to work,” as he told Alex Musson. “Always have done.”
Except these days he does it without the weekly deadlines, the phone always ringing, questions and chitchat with illustrators, coauthors, publishers, press — none of it.
Life of a novelist now. Solitude. [...]
I became aware of you from your Avatar Press work. Did you do any comics work before Avatar?
Jacen Burrows: [...] There was also a brief stint where I worked for Scott Clark as his background assists guy when he was doing Wildstorm work in the 90’s. He just so happened to move into a house a few doors down from me. I drew a big crowd scene in an issue of Wildcats and some random backgrounds in a Spawn/Wildcats crossover. Pretty minimal but I still count it because the script was by Alan Moore!
I’ve read there is an Alan Moore Lovecraft book unreleased by Avatar. Do you have any other unreleased work?
JB: No, nothing but the aforementioned amateur work. I’m not even aware of the unpublished Moore work at Avatar but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. I just know they were hungry to put out anything they could from him. [...]
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| Art by Mike Allred |
