Dec 15, 2025

Giant of the Attic

Below, the opening sentences from Giant of the Attic: On the Majesty of Alan Moore, a long-form profile by Alexander Sorondo for The Metropolitan Review
An interesting reading. 
The complete piece is available HERE
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. [...]

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