tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61276575548565643502024-03-18T20:15:14.839+01:00* ALAN MOORE WORLD *smoky manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12245491210538312718noreply@blogger.comBlogger1080125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127657554856564350.post-14762420169521147882024-03-18T20:13:00.003+01:002024-03-18T20:14:42.843+01:00Alan Moore Portraits - Visual Part 2<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-UVg0JB43hiFjOGX20Cm9OFfq_9yS1As2qU0i5rU0BPIPw2U0nAUkJhuBQZLDNwNfk8GPEPVlaVGM01yRUYm3RcddE6-dZhwUnhUWOHNp_pLV5qQo20JVEJArgLho3QH_CceDXFoDNVQKZhuxBpUJK8P8Q_TJZNmC8ajahwm6noLiq8ADZSfvQKMfJ9dL/s800/ponk.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="528" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-UVg0JB43hiFjOGX20Cm9OFfq_9yS1As2qU0i5rU0BPIPw2U0nAUkJhuBQZLDNwNfk8GPEPVlaVGM01yRUYm3RcddE6-dZhwUnhUWOHNp_pLV5qQo20JVEJArgLho3QH_CceDXFoDNVQKZhuxBpUJK8P8Q_TJZNmC8ajahwm6noLiq8ADZSfvQKMfJ9dL/w422-h640/ponk.jpg" width="422" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <b><a href="https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1719966" target="_blank">Sergio Ponchione</a></b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">Below, the list of the portraits contained in <i><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Alan Moore: Portraits of an Extraordinary Gentleman</span></a></b></i>, Part 2, ordered as they appear in the book. <br /></div><div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2024/02/extraordinary-moore-by-gary-spencer.html" target="_blank"><b>Gary Spencer Millidge</b>'s cover</a> is not included in the list (<a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2024/02/extraordinary-moore-by-gary-spencer.html" target="_blank">check this post about it</a>). </div><div style="text-align: justify;">As you know, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">the 150-page book is available on <b><span>Amazon stores</span></b>.</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">The whole book includes 42 portraits</a> (plus the cover): and... <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Answer_to_the_Ultimate_Question_of_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything_(42)" target="_blank">42 is a great number</a>! :) </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Special thanks to all the artists involved! Grazie mille!!!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Note</i>: the links below could present the art in a different version respect to <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">the printed book</a>. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Click to view them all!!! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">[15] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2022/08/gentleman-moore-by-rachele-aragno.html" target="_blank">Rachele Aragno</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />[16] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2020/12/magus-moore-by-giuseppe-palumbo.html" target="_blank">Giuseppe Palumbo</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />[17] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2019/02/wide-eyed-moore.html" target="_blank">Paolo Massagli</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />[18] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2021/03/alan-moore-with-touch-of-blue-by.html" target="_blank">Danijel Žeželj</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />[19] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2019/05/magnetic-moore-by-miguel-angel-martin.html" target="_blank">Miguel Angel Martin</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />[20] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2023/04/monumental-moore-by-eduardo-risso.html" target="_blank">Eduardo Risso</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />[21] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2017/08/alan-moore-by-massimo-giacon.html" target="_blank">Massimo Giacon</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />[22] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2020/04/magic-al-by-sergio-ponchione.html" target="_blank">Sergio Ponchione</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />[23] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2020/07/astro-alan-by-hilary-barta.html" target="_blank">Hilary Barta</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />[24] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-gent-with-rings-and-serpentine-cane.html" target="_blank">Hunt Emerson</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />[25] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2023/10/alan-moore-by-lorenzo-mo.html" target="_blank">Lorenzo Mò</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />[26] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2023/04/stellar-moore-by-dan-mcdaid.html" target="_blank">Dan McDaid</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />[27] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2022/04/miracle-moore-by-jeffrey-lewis.html" target="_blank">Jeffrey Lewis</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />[28] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2019/10/pink-fluid-moore-by-spugna.html" target="_blank">Spugna</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2024/03/alan-moore-portraits-visual-part-1.html" target="_blank">Visual Part 1</a> <br /></b></div></div>smoky manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12245491210538312718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127657554856564350.post-43910615516631519012024-03-08T17:00:00.001+01:002024-03-08T17:00:00.132+01:00Paranormal Moore by Jonathan Edwards<div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSM91PKaHCvnPMcqfM2UAhyphenhyphensDpcLpRdSwUOIxiUVopt1TjVM1fJ0xib8bhUQHLJNVn3nzsM4Zq2K9n8I7p8ZgB8ZyXUDMoTGhJZQCbO30LmO-mcA6qdb4llwzTpMiaNAt3s2zMztO3eTB4RNLl66UmTppO7ONCEdv5o9XdykNHU7hNOR4Ug0utmfFzz9yB/s870/paramoore1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="870" data-original-width="624" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSM91PKaHCvnPMcqfM2UAhyphenhyphensDpcLpRdSwUOIxiUVopt1TjVM1fJ0xib8bhUQHLJNVn3nzsM4Zq2K9n8I7p8ZgB8ZyXUDMoTGhJZQCbO30LmO-mcA6qdb4llwzTpMiaNAt3s2zMztO3eTB4RNLl66UmTppO7ONCEdv5o9XdykNHU7hNOR4Ug0utmfFzz9yB/w460-h640/paramoore1.jpg" width="460" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <a href="http://www.jonathan-e.com/" target="_blank"><b>Jonathan Edwards</b></a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">Above, Alan Moore portrait by British artist <span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.jonathan-e.com/" target="_blank"><b>Jonathan Edwards</b></a></span>, originally published in 2009 on<i> Paranormal Magazine</i>. Below, 4 supplementary illustrations. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Posted on <b><a href="http://www.jonathan-e.com/" target="_blank">Edwards</a></b>' blog, <b><a href="http://jonathan-e.blogspot.com/2009/09/alan-moore-paranormal-magazine.html" target="_blank">here</a></b>, back in the day. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">I confess... I looove them all! <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For more info about <a href="http://www.jonathan-e.com/" target="_blank"><b>Edwards</b></a>, visit his site <a href="http://www.jonathan-e.com/" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>. </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM2eSatP85QPUBFICdJTLvamKuTPgxD_Dj0MH78rQJxRx132IRKOoU9moMTqkC5kZCT7XDzzM_X1GlTzZ7TKAIo_cYPsf2-LlTbde8xVHvCVZl3sP9xxR3QkLE_RrJKkcfF2tSpy1hpQdpI8YbIS2YP3IqFaQDvaAyXCWB6Wg8TUKZ_A0HFhCckuPkKAGM/s1000/paramoore2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="889" height="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM2eSatP85QPUBFICdJTLvamKuTPgxD_Dj0MH78rQJxRx132IRKOoU9moMTqkC5kZCT7XDzzM_X1GlTzZ7TKAIo_cYPsf2-LlTbde8xVHvCVZl3sP9xxR3QkLE_RrJKkcfF2tSpy1hpQdpI8YbIS2YP3IqFaQDvaAyXCWB6Wg8TUKZ_A0HFhCckuPkKAGM/w479-h540/paramoore2.jpg" width="479" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <a href="http://www.jonathan-e.com/" target="_blank"><b>Jonathan Edwards</b></a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"></div></div>smoky manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12245491210538312718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127657554856564350.post-11495441900016553062024-03-04T16:26:00.003+01:002024-03-18T20:14:04.897+01:00Alan Moore Portraits - Visual Part 1<div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZDq5XtHFq_i3gEd39cea751Xk-Ds3IfljORGs2PYWsGlamt95aw-88PwcGQDpNHe4tCmUrAcZJNzfTCgg9YdRH7rULau1lZCDIpBuHm2kNbnqjVKkaH9hzTuLvkfVXp1ZwOpZ_j7N3DPw5NUzvgoQIohm-jE-ciaLbyCL1zBk_a-Gdy5iL7HMTeNKhS8c/s2048/casciu1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZDq5XtHFq_i3gEd39cea751Xk-Ds3IfljORGs2PYWsGlamt95aw-88PwcGQDpNHe4tCmUrAcZJNzfTCgg9YdRH7rULau1lZCDIpBuHm2kNbnqjVKkaH9hzTuLvkfVXp1ZwOpZ_j7N3DPw5NUzvgoQIohm-jE-ciaLbyCL1zBk_a-Gdy5iL7HMTeNKhS8c/w480-h640/casciu1.jpeg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2020/04/he-has-mesmerising-eyes-by-andrea-casciu.html" target="_blank">Andrea Casciu</a></b> (wip)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Below, the list of the portraits contained in <i><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Alan Moore: Portraits of an Extraordinary Gentleman</span></a></b></i>, Part 1, ordered as they appear in the book. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2024/02/extraordinary-moore-by-gary-spencer.html" target="_blank"><b>Gary Spencer Millidge</b>'s cover</a> is not included in the list (<a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2024/02/extraordinary-moore-by-gary-spencer.html" target="_blank">check this post about it</a>). </div><div style="text-align: justify;">As you know, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">the 150-page book is available on <b><span>Amazon stores</span></b>.</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">The whole book includes 42 portraits</a> (plus the cover): and... <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Answer_to_the_Ultimate_Question_of_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything_(42)" target="_blank">42 is a great number</a>! :) </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Special thanks to all the artists involved! Grazie mille!!!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Note</i>: the links below could present the art in a different version respect to <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">the printed book</a>. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Click to view them all!!! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">[1] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2019/12/blue-moore-by-nicola-testoni.html" target="_blank">Nicola Testoni</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b><br />[2] Portrait by <b><a href="https://johncoulthart.com/pantechnicon/wizard.html" target="_blank">John Coulthart</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b><br />[3] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2017/10/mighty-moore-by-leomacs.html" target="_blank">Leomacs</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b><br />[4] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2021/01/moore-characters-by-david-hitchcock.html" target="_blank">David Hitchcock</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b><br />[5] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2021/05/alan-and-ginda-by-laurent-lefeuvre.html" target="_blank">Laurent Lefeuvre</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b><br />[6] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2022/01/moore-glycon-su-boe-by-jesse-lonergan.html" target="_blank">Jesse Lonergan</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />[7] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2023/08/stylish-moore-by-giacomo-putzu.html" target="_blank">Giacomo Putzu</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />[8] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2022/02/gigantic-moore-by-francesco-corli.html" target="_blank">Francesco Corli</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />[9] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-man-from-northampton-by-david-roach.html" target="_blank">David Roach</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />[10] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2023/09/moore-from-shadows.html" target="_blank">Daniele Serra</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />[11] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2019/09/universal-moore-by-angelo-secci.html" target="_blank">Angelo Secci</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />[12] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2019/10/he-knows-score-by-thomas-campi.html" target="_blank">Thomas Campi</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />[13] Portrait by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-magus-and-his-tarot-cards-by-carlos.html" target="_blank">Carlos Dearmas</a></b> <br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />[14] Portrait by <a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2020/04/he-has-mesmerising-eyes-by-andrea-casciu.html" target="_blank"><b>Andrea Casciu</b></a><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2024/03/alan-moore-portraits-visual-part-2.html" target="_blank">Visual Part 2</a></b></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeEGVj8auCp36dqpNnkQ4k3O67DUgstJQDGQqEqbYMmFKr0-TMZUrHo6chk5iHM7HewBqaTUUO8RLg3FCyojJKxsEUpHfZrLQ1-1ePxszLF2vB0CEtC7o09v8-7Ws1owmVYaSiDaVjrx-AUFReSksx3Pl64_1shQeF8T0Ayqd34azYhNdfTclJKXCHG8RZ/s3418/casciu2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3418" data-original-width="2395" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeEGVj8auCp36dqpNnkQ4k3O67DUgstJQDGQqEqbYMmFKr0-TMZUrHo6chk5iHM7HewBqaTUUO8RLg3FCyojJKxsEUpHfZrLQ1-1ePxszLF2vB0CEtC7o09v8-7Ws1owmVYaSiDaVjrx-AUFReSksx3Pl64_1shQeF8T0Ayqd34azYhNdfTclJKXCHG8RZ/w448-h640/casciu2.jpeg" width="448" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2020/04/he-has-mesmerising-eyes-by-andrea-casciu.html" target="_blank">Andrea Casciu</a></b> (preliminary b/w version)</td></tr></tbody></table>smoky manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12245491210538312718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127657554856564350.post-42222478773205025042024-02-26T13:18:00.001+01:002024-02-26T13:18:12.223+01:00Swamp Thing by Officina Infernale <p style="text-align: justify;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwETqt1AKuufq_KjqOquwKv1M2mKKivFfvMv0oYbiO10cJugdzpDGuTd0Orcb_jUgCfP0SLZt5I4upy3zFFMj4iNTUFuG6xTglRu2wmkggKd410C0cpNlXZFQe0Cj1291lWigtmrB0SatdmY2AhOJNk3eulu9sHReCyAqci_hDXL969QKl17GfIb9H3cYQ/s1350/swamp1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwETqt1AKuufq_KjqOquwKv1M2mKKivFfvMv0oYbiO10cJugdzpDGuTd0Orcb_jUgCfP0SLZt5I4upy3zFFMj4iNTUFuG6xTglRu2wmkggKd410C0cpNlXZFQe0Cj1291lWigtmrB0SatdmY2AhOJNk3eulu9sHReCyAqci_hDXL969QKl17GfIb9H3cYQ/w512-h640/swamp1.jpg" width="512" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <b><a href="https://officinainfernale.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Officina Infernale</a></b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div style="text-align: left;">Above, a great Swamp Thing illustration, combining monstrosity and tenderness, by Italian über-artist<b> <span><a href="https://officinainfernale.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Officina Infernale</span></a></span></b>.</div><div style="text-align: left;">It seems that the illo would be included in an upcoming Moore-related book. <br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB_1iiCpuDGQSgVIhbu8nj8WuH9zPXZCB472QCHV0jdEmBcXCgIl2imjqxEjYDRWxzkRspCqD1psPVHiX790ib1ieUA5WEquEl1AepS2SjZEBMUIFBlDqaspwccxfopiFAQvj8vNAeLZ41RA03If8iw6ydYF2uOrdNKRDMDeriK5wkkhcfTOEsmKJHxMiJ/s1350/swamp0.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB_1iiCpuDGQSgVIhbu8nj8WuH9zPXZCB472QCHV0jdEmBcXCgIl2imjqxEjYDRWxzkRspCqD1psPVHiX790ib1ieUA5WEquEl1AepS2SjZEBMUIFBlDqaspwccxfopiFAQvj8vNAeLZ41RA03If8iw6ydYF2uOrdNKRDMDeriK5wkkhcfTOEsmKJHxMiJ/w512-h640/swamp0.jpg" width="512" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Preliminary art by <b><a href="https://officinainfernale.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Officina Infernale</a></b></td></tr></tbody></table></div>smoky manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12245491210538312718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127657554856564350.post-67644230591113844802024-02-23T12:59:00.002+01:002024-02-23T13:01:24.799+01:00Moore donates original art for Garibaldi LIVE<div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUui0vGHHS7ihBUxpTVdTqPt66CFkuaSD4mJ_cIdGa04jlZS3VbXQKhy_UFlkVqN46Dcc5AhyphenhyphenuKKG0dXipK76jeYWAEO9N_oGdmRUhDSD7P_d7WA_C4fmmHQP52S4etbLVnfOXDmJR6ylaLZhdokrHjXqkgim1SYDK-MXUtEr8IrYJTuvR0J1ozhGXiJsd/s1000/Moore_art_Garibaldi%20LIVE%202024.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="811" data-original-width="1000" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUui0vGHHS7ihBUxpTVdTqPt66CFkuaSD4mJ_cIdGa04jlZS3VbXQKhy_UFlkVqN46Dcc5AhyphenhyphenuKKG0dXipK76jeYWAEO9N_oGdmRUhDSD7P_d7WA_C4fmmHQP52S4etbLVnfOXDmJR6ylaLZhdokrHjXqkgim1SYDK-MXUtEr8IrYJTuvR0J1ozhGXiJsd/w480-h390/Moore_art_Garibaldi%20LIVE%202024.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <b><a href="https://app.galabid.com/thematineeproject/items/1736cbe8-d49a-427c-85f9-b167bb270f25" target="_blank">Alan Moore</a></b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Alan Moore <a href="https://app.galabid.com/thematineeproject/items/1736cbe8-d49a-427c-85f9-b167bb270f25" target="_blank">donated original signed artwork</a> in support of <span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><i><a href="https://app.galabid.com/thematineeproject/items/1736cbe8-d49a-427c-85f9-b167bb270f25" target="_blank">The Garibaldi LIVE</a>, </i>a</span> music project based in his hometown Northampton. All details <b><a href="https://app.galabid.com/thematineeproject/items/1736cbe8-d49a-427c-85f9-b167bb270f25" target="_blank">HERE</a></b> (and below). <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://app.galabid.com/thematineeproject/items/1736cbe8-d49a-427c-85f9-b167bb270f25" target="_blank"></a></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://app.galabid.com/thematineeproject/items/1736cbe8-d49a-427c-85f9-b167bb270f25" target="_blank">Alan Moore has dedicated his life to his art.</a> Had he not achieved the status of the most influential writer in his field, the admiration of millions of fans, including many household names, and not had his work adapted into major budget movies, I have no doubt that he would still have done exactly the same thing: he has the attributes of most great artists: he is dedicated, lives simply, shuns the hype and bullshit of those who simply exploit art for commercial gain, public adulation, or to cynically latch on to the current zeitgeist. He is also generous and supportive of other artists, across genres. I owe him much, and am glad to call him ‘friend’.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Northampton, the town (or ‘Teyn’) of Alan’s and my birth, which is both loved and hated, by many of its inhabitants, is sadly near or at the bottom of the nationwide pile for ‘artistic engagement’; it has been known as ‘the Glasgow of the Midlands’, being, as that city once was, a place of disrespect and indifference to artists, and a fearful, potentially deflating prospect for any performer. <br /><br />In Northampton, we have a wealth of phenomenal performers, sharing Alan’s attributes, and especially astonishing musicians across ‘roots’ genres who are marginalised.<br /><br />Over four years and thousands of voluntary hours, in a truly unique partnership with the town’s Garibaldi Hotel, our project ‘The Garibaldi LIVE’ has nurtured our outstanding musicians, brought some of the most acclaimed performers, nationally and globally, to the venue for them to collaborate with , and ‘The Gari’ has also gained a superb reputation across the country as a ‘must play’ gig. It has taken this long for the initiative to gain traction and it has now reached an exciting and critical stage. Performances are non-ticketed to ensure access for all and we rely on a non obligatory collection for those that can afford to give. We have been informed that we are eligible for funding, which, if we are successful in our bid, will not come to fruition for many months. We need support now. For this reason, we are grateful to Alan for his donation of a rare, original, and characteristically thoughtful signed artwork, ‘Bless’, to auction for much needed funds - rare, particularly, as Alan always maintains that he’s a writer, not an artist.<br /><br />This is an opportunity to own a unique original artwork and to also make a great investment in great artists, not to mention this outstanding, people powered project.<br /><br />Our deep gratitude to you for reading this far to understand the basis of Alan’s support for ‘The Garibaldi LIVE’ and our town’s need for it. We hope you will make a bid or, at the least spread the word.<br /><br /><a href="https://app.galabid.com/thematineeproject/items/1736cbe8-d49a-427c-85f9-b167bb270f25" target="_blank">Health, happiness, and thank you.</a><br />Andy Shaw.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><a href="https://app.galabid.com/thematineeproject/items/1736cbe8-d49a-427c-85f9-b167bb270f25" target="_blank">Artwork measures 40cm X 32cm</a></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://app.galabid.com/thematineeproject/items/1736cbe8-d49a-427c-85f9-b167bb270f25" target="_blank">The auction will end in 67 days</a> and... <a href="https://app.galabid.com/thematineeproject/items/1736cbe8-d49a-427c-85f9-b167bb270f25" target="_blank">current highest bid</a> is... (just) <span _ngcontent-gb-front-c4230632962="" class="mat-body-1 ng-star-inserted">£1,000</span>! So...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://app.galabid.com/thematineeproject/items/1736cbe8-d49a-427c-85f9-b167bb270f25" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Place your bid <b>HERE</b> and... be generous (if you can)!!!</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">From </span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OfficialAlanMoore/posts/pfbid0amZKP5ZQDK5WEPCuUHbEd46ZMEFJun6vbA9ZHDrCxbSn2qmto6pZ45pRYCjBxQt3l " target="_blank">the official Facebook page for Alan Moore</a></span><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">: “<i>The
Garibaldi LIVE is doing a wonderful and necessary job in keeping our
rich regional music scene alive and definitely kicking. And if my
elderly doodle can help in any way, then I should be a happy man indeed.
Support your local sounds or lose them to the creeping silence</i>.” – <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OfficialAlanMoore/posts/pfbid0amZKP5ZQDK5WEPCuUHbEd46ZMEFJun6vbA9ZHDrCxbSn2qmto6pZ45pRYCjBxQt3l " target="_blank"><b>Alan Moore</b></a> </span></div>smoky manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12245491210538312718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127657554856564350.post-28790238086969742252024-02-20T22:25:00.003+01:002024-02-20T22:28:32.207+01:00The Autumn is Magic!<div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD8NsOzHkifdmvyZD29icA22RF1WfG3praWmG4x4V_1isBCre3-LZQ3zoPoC_U5Holc1qEmvPJbDex9c7wHTbaS7MGERuGk5K-jj4gLAy06R5HeOWVq2u9jBcyx7wWDOgoNeXBJ2kBtm7dBIVmPzwTjvvGUmSuKL2snkYI8ZVZQ4F8dI5XJz2H_nr-9u_Z/s750/cover.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="562" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD8NsOzHkifdmvyZD29icA22RF1WfG3praWmG4x4V_1isBCre3-LZQ3zoPoC_U5Holc1qEmvPJbDex9c7wHTbaS7MGERuGk5K-jj4gLAy06R5HeOWVq2u9jBcyx7wWDOgoNeXBJ2kBtm7dBIVmPzwTjvvGUmSuKL2snkYI8ZVZQ4F8dI5XJz2H_nr-9u_Z/w480-h640/cover.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cover art by <b><a href="https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/02/19/moon-and-serpent-rising/" target="_blank">John Coulthart</a></b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>It's about time! Finally this Autumn (<a href="https://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/the-moon-and-serpent-bumper-book-of-magic/578" target="_blank">October 15th, to be precise!</a>) we will learn all the secrets of Magic thanks to Messrs. Steve and Alan Moore & friends (and publishers <b><a href="https://www.topshelfcomix.com/" target="_blank">Top Shelf</a></b> & <b><a href="https://www.knockaboutcomics.com/" target="_blank">Knockabout</a></b>). </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">From the <a href="https://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/the-moon-and-serpent-bumper-book-of-magic/578" target="_blank"><b>Top Shelf</b> site</a>:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/the-moon-and-serpent-bumper-book-of-magic/578" target="_blank"></a><blockquote><div><a href="https://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/the-moon-and-serpent-bumper-book-of-magic/578" target="_blank">The most acclaimed writer in comics history</a>, <a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Moon%20and%20Serpent%20Bumper%20Book%20of%20Magic" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Alan Moore</span></b></a>, joins his late mentor <a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Moon%20and%20Serpent%20Bumper%20Book%20of%20Magic" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Steve Moore</span></b> (no relation)</a> for one last graphic grimoire: a sprawling and stunning introduction to magic in all its timeless forms, brought to life by five wondrous and whimsical artists.<br /><br />Splendid news for enquiring minds, and guaranteed salvation for humanity! Messrs. Steve and Alan Moore, current proprietors of the celebrated <i>Moon & Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels</i> (sorcery by appointment since circa 150 AD) are presently engaged in producing a clear and practical grimoire of the occult sciences that offers endless necromantic fun for all the family. Exquisitely illuminated by a host of adepts including <b>Kevin O’Neill</b>, <b>John Coulthart</b>, <b>Steve Parkhouse</b>, <b>Rick Veitch</b> and <b>Ben Wickey</b>, this marvellous and unprecedented tome promises to provide all that the reader could conceivably need in order to commence a fulfilling new career as a diabolist.<br /><br />Its contents include profusely illustrated instructional essays upon this ancient sect’s theories of magic, notably the key dissertation “Adventures in Thinking,” which gives reliable advice as to how entry into the world of magic may be readily achieved. Further to this, a number of “Rainy Day” activity pages present lively and entertaining things-to-do once the magical state has been attained, including such popular pastimes as divination, etheric travel and the conjuring of a colourful multitude of sprits, deities, dead people and infernal entities from the pit, all of whom are sure to become your new best friends.<br /><br />Also contained within this extravagant compendium of thaumaturgic lore is a history of magic from the last ice age to the present day, told in a series of easy-to-absorb pictorial biographies of fifty great enchanters and complemented by a variety of picture stories depicting events ranging from the Palaeolithic origins of art, magic, language and consciousness to the rib-tickling comedy exploits of <i>Moon & Serpent</i> founder Alexander the False Prophet (“He’s fun, he’s fake, he’s got a talking snake!”).<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMCHI8tjUEJvNwuIE2rI0-C21s_S1jwh8lG6GRmjXX8Q4kSregFJT0vHwPPhpF13OGWkJ5Ke7afYhoJQT2spQakibQxTx3S3AqpzVZoIu2YA2asEiidkiBPVavnbnBCtSeIGTfYm3ODt5LDpPOnjvUOZ35h4G4T4d-vKJDQtoY5a8yCAUvrg72ohVgwjqO/s1200/KO.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="900" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMCHI8tjUEJvNwuIE2rI0-C21s_S1jwh8lG6GRmjXX8Q4kSregFJT0vHwPPhpF13OGWkJ5Ke7afYhoJQT2spQakibQxTx3S3AqpzVZoIu2YA2asEiidkiBPVavnbnBCtSeIGTfYm3ODt5LDpPOnjvUOZ35h4G4T4d-vKJDQtoY5a8yCAUvrg72ohVgwjqO/w480-h640/KO.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <b>Kevin O'Neill</b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>In addition to these manifold delights, the adventurous reader will also discover a series of helpful travel guides to mind-wrenching alien dimensions that are within comfortable walking distance, as well as profiles of the many quaint local inhabitants that one might bump into at these exotic resorts. A full range of entertainments will be provided, encompassing such diverse novelties and pursuits as a lavishly decorated decadent pulp tale of occult adventure recounted in the serial form. Completing this almost-unimaginable treasure trove is a lengthy thesis revealing the ultimate meaning of both the <i>Moon and the Serpent</i> in a manner that makes transparent the much-obscured secret of magic, happiness, sex, creativity and the known Universe, while at the same time explaining why these lunar and ophidian symbols feature so prominently in the order’s peculiar name. (Manufacturer’s disclaimer: this edition does not, however, reveal why the titular cabal of magicians consider themselves to be either grand or Egyptian. Let the buyer beware.)<br /></div></blockquote><blockquote><div><a href="https://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/the-moon-and-serpent-bumper-book-of-magic/578" target="_blank"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLJl5sdK-v8xP8mb1Qos4aRbawmN_2cuAXHPp7myC7NytpUMHPy8ZvRU1c-hA7FxzRWo-wfuL3hAXlCvBETBWS1i6IlDr_lRBYcD9Lye00ILNfJqiToIc-GHickWvjch_iF22GBbkL2JXWCkDmTdSeFYSEV6UCZ7PThAMWhFMP7bohSQNET-xjwNvgW3HH/s1200/RV.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="900" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLJl5sdK-v8xP8mb1Qos4aRbawmN_2cuAXHPp7myC7NytpUMHPy8ZvRU1c-hA7FxzRWo-wfuL3hAXlCvBETBWS1i6IlDr_lRBYcD9Lye00ILNfJqiToIc-GHickWvjch_iF22GBbkL2JXWCkDmTdSeFYSEV6UCZ7PThAMWhFMP7bohSQNET-xjwNvgW3HH/w480-h640/RV.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <b>Rick Veitch</b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>A colossal and audacious publishing triumph</a> of three hundred and fifty-two pages, beautifully produced in the finest tradition of educational literature for young people, <i><b><a href="https://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/the-moon-and-serpent-bumper-book-of-magic/578" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic</span></a></b></i> will transform your lives, your reality, and any spare lead that you happen to have lying around into the purest and most radiant gold. -- a 9" x 12" hardcover<br /><br />Book design by John Coulthart. Co-published by Top Shelf Productions & Knockabout LTD (UK).</div></blockquote><p></p><blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/the-moon-and-serpent-bumper-book-of-magic/578" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">COMING OCTOBER 15TH, 2024! </span></a></b></div></blockquote><b><a href="https://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/the-moon-and-serpent-bumper-book-of-magic/578" target="_blank"></a></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">From <a href="https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/02/19/moon-and-serpent-rising/" target="_blank"><b>John Coulthart</b> site</a>: </div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">[...] A couple of things are worth noting now that the book is about to enter the world. The first is that the contents are a little different to the press release from 2007 which announced a book of 320 pages, with 78 of those pages being brand new Tarot card designs. The authors subsequently realised that creating an entirely new Tarot deck is a huge task in itself, especially if, as was the intention, you wanted it to be as wide-ranging and authoritative as the Crowley/Harris Thoth deck. [...]<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimEcvXnGo4jB6s1Pzq32Yp-4Rh2aXBpCQQ_BiroNxk7J1axkj1-oV-jT6G1_H9smV5yuoSE0QxsAMJw8kaNaKzbAYTThpnvVpIz9bcLtTCgUIxGpcbFB9gDuTWCzOvkjs6EJIY27y1jMub6V1-qbABJ5mGTnXJxi_hz440bG3jSrGDlJkwh1vwzKcKCXMJ/s1200/BW.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="900" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimEcvXnGo4jB6s1Pzq32Yp-4Rh2aXBpCQQ_BiroNxk7J1axkj1-oV-jT6G1_H9smV5yuoSE0QxsAMJw8kaNaKzbAYTThpnvVpIz9bcLtTCgUIxGpcbFB9gDuTWCzOvkjs6EJIY27y1jMub6V1-qbABJ5mGTnXJxi_hz440bG3jSrGDlJkwh1vwzKcKCXMJ/w480-h640/BW.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <b>Ben Wickey</b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>The other thing to note is that this book is as much Steve Moore’s as
Alan Moore’s, something which I’m sure Alan will want to emphasise but
which news reports and reviews are inevitably going to overlook. [...]<br /><br /><a href="https://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/the-moon-and-serpent-bumper-book-of-magic/578" target="_blank">The Bumper Book</a>
may superficially resemble a children’s annual but this isn’t a book
for children. The essays include discussion of the use of drugs and sex
in magic, and there’s a lot of nudity (also a fair amount of sex) in the
illustrations. The book is a serious study, but not, I hope, a boring
one. [...]<br /><br />I could say more about the contents but I’m not going
to spoil things. I’ve been immensely grateful to Alan, Tony and Chris at
Top Shelf for not pressuring me to get this one finished. I’m often
complaining that publishers don’t give you enough time to work on things
but that wasn’t the case with this book. I just wish Steve Moore was
still here to see it (and Kevin O’Neill, an artist whose work I always
admired but I never got to meet). October this year is going to be lunar
and serpentine. <a href="https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/02/19/moon-and-serpent-rising/" target="_blank">We’ll see you in the Theatre of Marvels</a>.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">Read the complete post <b><a href="https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/02/19/moon-and-serpent-rising/" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_MbGQYtf7DlnpGfAP-JcElNBlDeON9nomiN21Z1lGQ4PILXiM2aexDITpGbpA1-fPcHeQjOe_XsqjocyqLlCFECQd3ARz76TVqlCKiwqgrgx2vrHWDEYBs5O-ME-suOl3L-22A2cnyoWJaWW13EdomKYK5u9j8kv8Td5RDPGbEZISB3SbixSTNZHpluzW/s1440/JC2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_MbGQYtf7DlnpGfAP-JcElNBlDeON9nomiN21Z1lGQ4PILXiM2aexDITpGbpA1-fPcHeQjOe_XsqjocyqLlCFECQd3ARz76TVqlCKiwqgrgx2vrHWDEYBs5O-ME-suOl3L-22A2cnyoWJaWW13EdomKYK5u9j8kv8Td5RDPGbEZISB3SbixSTNZHpluzW/w480-h640/JC2.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <b><a href="https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2024/02/19/moon-and-serpent-rising/" target="_blank">John Coulthart</a></b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>smoky manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12245491210538312718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127657554856564350.post-55157170366781146572024-02-19T15:50:00.005+01:002024-02-19T15:53:23.784+01:00Extraordinary Moore by Gary Spencer Millidge<div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEl6mTZrgvjfMQVRtuWJmOIKwlSFFAkubILHSQcUSCWX4jG8a4WlZg1RlUTsuav3g7Dn-f-gJH-a1hoAdFvn1Hes7WHqGbMv7BnEPEWQT1VC-kXY53_ynUYcBGta6vJinIdyKwt8mBlE0_n67BSoSD6Du2QFzhBHX2qCQes9vzM6vcLyrXMQMIx88mrKvU/s1727/ArtGSM_full_sm.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1727" data-original-width="1351" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEl6mTZrgvjfMQVRtuWJmOIKwlSFFAkubILHSQcUSCWX4jG8a4WlZg1RlUTsuav3g7Dn-f-gJH-a1hoAdFvn1Hes7WHqGbMv7BnEPEWQT1VC-kXY53_ynUYcBGta6vJinIdyKwt8mBlE0_n67BSoSD6Du2QFzhBHX2qCQes9vzM6vcLyrXMQMIx88mrKvU/w500-h640/ArtGSM_full_sm.jpg" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank"><b>Gary Spencer Millidge</b></a></td></tr></tbody></table>Above, the extraordinary portrait of Moore that <b><a href="http://www.millidge.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gary Spencer Millidge</span></a></b> created for the cover of our <b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">Alan Moore: Portraits</a></i></span></b> book.<br />Gary was so extraordinarily generous to give me the original art which is a tangible example of his unique style, mixing a photorealistic approach with digital and traditional techniques.<br /><br />Thank you Gary for such a great gift. Grazie mille, amico!<br />Below more details and close-ups of the art.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You can <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">order a copy of the </a><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank"><b>Portraits</b></a> </i>book <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><b><a href="http://www.millidge.com" target="_blank">Gary Spencer Millidge</a></b> is a writer and illustrator from Essex, England. In 2003 he co-edited and published <i>Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman</i>, contributing also with a 12-page comic biography. He is the creator of the critically acclaimed, award-winning comic book series <i>Strangehaven</i>, and the writer of <i>Comic Book Design</i> and <i>Alan Moore: Storyteller</i> for Ilex Press. He has written two all-ages how-to books, <i>Draw Fantasy Figures</i> and <i>Draw Dragons</i>, both with James McKay.<br />In 2021 Strangehaven has been optioned for film and television by IDW Entertainment. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Official site: <b><a href="http://www.millidge.com">www.millidge.com</a></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRORNBFTPzbMQqfBIttG7u8706iKk9V_usYgoExV2HDejPd7zNgGOr3yHqWCa_licoZlNUZQE8dKTGmPMDfDcH8HHx3gcD3jjQ0BDag_EXSdCu0mHFNqMaXGh850OVMM9gOcvhvg3FhQhcmVrWaAVd7dBB_j0wI6AggrlQSw4XMx73ISy8u6OtCS9Sl1Jj/s1728/ArtGSM_detail1_sm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1728" data-original-width="1296" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRORNBFTPzbMQqfBIttG7u8706iKk9V_usYgoExV2HDejPd7zNgGOr3yHqWCa_licoZlNUZQE8dKTGmPMDfDcH8HHx3gcD3jjQ0BDag_EXSdCu0mHFNqMaXGh850OVMM9gOcvhvg3FhQhcmVrWaAVd7dBB_j0wI6AggrlQSw4XMx73ISy8u6OtCS9Sl1Jj/w480-h640/ArtGSM_detail1_sm.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixhbRAZk8of1NXqekcfE_yeLJ1W6L4D2A1HQUWVbeaFyPJjbZa0pcFkNspPENOwAS42TmIr3rw78HDryPpOM-o4Szb088aCccVgXwPNtoTRKsObLLOyvtHt8gEbCRFEh27rTSEpJO7AGQeKmnwTCSRKtPvIducAz1oWYekoueeosjrJQ8lSb9S4reseGk6/s1412/AM_Mazzanti2023_sm.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1412" data-original-width="1059" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixhbRAZk8of1NXqekcfE_yeLJ1W6L4D2A1HQUWVbeaFyPJjbZa0pcFkNspPENOwAS42TmIr3rw78HDryPpOM-o4Szb088aCccVgXwPNtoTRKsObLLOyvtHt8gEbCRFEh27rTSEpJO7AGQeKmnwTCSRKtPvIducAz1oWYekoueeosjrJQ8lSb9S4reseGk6/w480-h640/AM_Mazzanti2023_sm.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/isunija/" target="_blank">Isabella Mazzanti</a></b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Above, a magnificent Alan Moore portrait by Italian illustrator and comic book artist <a href="https://www.instagram.com/isunija/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">ISABELLA MAZZANTI</span></b></a>. With a drawing style that combines eastern and western influences, Mazzanti collaborated with publishers such as Mondadori, Disney, Simon & Shustler, Soleil, Random House, Penguin, Bonelli Editore and her books have been published in Italian, French and English. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Her most recent work is <a href="https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/hitomi" target="_blank"><i>Hitomi</i></a>, a miniseries set in Feudal Era Japan, published by Image Comics (story by HS Tak) and in Italy by <a href="https://www.oblomovedizioni.com/libri-hitomi.php" target="_blank">Oblomov</a>.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/isunija/" target="_blank">More info</a> about the artist at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/isunija/" target="_blank">her Instagram</a> page, <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/isunija/" target="_blank">here</a></b>. </div>smoky manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12245491210538312718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127657554856564350.post-86835656270027693872024-02-06T19:32:00.002+01:002024-02-06T19:32:38.601+01:00Moore sketch portrait by Alexander Bustamante<div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFVMjG9VmUVw6dEeOh5EPnSpyqnhmns_rZ531H8Bj_EGe9ncBAvvfgyb4HG64ocHhq_Yi7_3H1khkl-SP_ThHC40_jQxUpQc6wtpoN1fMMe15xjoIgqZxXRRfrPvwXQVzvSekfSmeCWNrPC798e9D1WZfJ3PliDhaw10WtsNASg8Gj7TF5WsFQ7pY3i8_R/s1024/moore_2013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="808" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFVMjG9VmUVw6dEeOh5EPnSpyqnhmns_rZ531H8Bj_EGe9ncBAvvfgyb4HG64ocHhq_Yi7_3H1khkl-SP_ThHC40_jQxUpQc6wtpoN1fMMe15xjoIgqZxXRRfrPvwXQVzvSekfSmeCWNrPC798e9D1WZfJ3PliDhaw10WtsNASg8Gj7TF5WsFQ7pY3i8_R/w506-h640/moore_2013.jpg" width="506" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <b><a href="http://instagram.com/mfny" target="_blank">Alexander Bustamante</a></b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Above, <a href=" https://www.flickr.com/photos/mfny/8917724923/" target="_blank">pencil sketch portrait</a> of The Man form Northampton by American artist <b><a href="http://instagram.com/mfny" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Alexander Bustamante</span></a></b>.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">For more info about the artist, visit his <a href="http://instagram.com/mfny" target="_blank">Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/mfny/" target="_blank">Flickr</a> page. <br /></div>smoky manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12245491210538312718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127657554856564350.post-7776125778519011142024-02-02T13:38:00.000+01:002024-02-02T13:38:13.808+01:00Sur écoute avec Alan Moore<div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJSY0aN4LO4rDeP-buL1HkMGw6pYOtExbMCr7pwOM3BCeOyjaV6CuI6Yu6bHD2DOQpmhJcFRC1aPKXGWhPlHyaMIl45QFcnQJFrguyT4t-dwPz1QcLppbqao4JPZznTb1ISXZGTqOIM3lKwAOFhCgcgdXzvLT0lA036IBCXSvLpHEmxHyfqTQkjV0Kl5Zf/s793/MH10_Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="793" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJSY0aN4LO4rDeP-buL1HkMGw6pYOtExbMCr7pwOM3BCeOyjaV6CuI6Yu6bHD2DOQpmhJcFRC1aPKXGWhPlHyaMIl45QFcnQJFrguyT4t-dwPz1QcLppbqao4JPZznTb1ISXZGTqOIM3lKwAOFhCgcgdXzvLT0lA036IBCXSvLpHEmxHyfqTQkjV0Kl5Zf/w484-h640/MH10_Cover.jpg" width="484" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cover for <i><b><a href="https://www.humano.com/album/37898" target="_blank">Metal Hurlant</a></b></i> n. 10 by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/bakaarts/" target="_blank">Darius BakaArts</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">The <a href="https://www.humano.com/album/37898" target="_blank">10th issue of the "new" <span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>Metal Hurlant</i></b></span></a>, the seminal <a href="https://www.instagram.com/metal_hurlant_officiel/" target="_blank">French comics magazine</a>, includes an interview with Alan Moore. It has been conducted by writer and pop performer <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/jeanemmanueldeluxe" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank">Jean Emmanuel Deluxe</a></b> in June 2020, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jeanemmanueldeluxe/p/C2ha_x2LJEw/" target="_blank">during the pandemic</a>, and remained unpublished till now. The issue will be available the 21th of February 2024 but it was premiered during the recent Angoulême festival.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">More info about <a href="https://www.humano.com/album/37898" target="_blank"><i>Metal Hurlant</i> n.10 <b>here</b></a> and <b><a href="https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02eqSP9oLWi6jxyjXRJ8udz6zueJzwX4S2D8Y9RtAAAyjt7FJK1UdjMuQRXgrVQqX1l&id=100063775471648" target="_blank">here</a></b>.<br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Moore info about <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jeanemmanueldeluxe/p/C2ha_x2LJEw/" target="_blank">Deluxe <b>here</b></a> and <b><a href="https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2020/04/jean-emmanuel-deluxe-interview.html" target="_blank">here</a></b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Special thanks to Paul Gravett for the tips! Grazie, Paul!<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgufRLK1vAB6mUpbgk1TjfFTH1UZcRUauatSAcs-lqR_zbk6nYn9c1TlRI777EPz1jpkw3RmRmDxkztpoeq28cvwDm47UxEwcXdooodjS_cHLQlLf650doRE-WwWTrNpEiYg7uEfUj5W-MFCxdDxH51vinZY0UalrGYG7FCps5Cy1hvzXN-qDG9boqMmsD4/s1931/HM_Moore2024.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1931" data-original-width="1436" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgufRLK1vAB6mUpbgk1TjfFTH1UZcRUauatSAcs-lqR_zbk6nYn9c1TlRI777EPz1jpkw3RmRmDxkztpoeq28cvwDm47UxEwcXdooodjS_cHLQlLf650doRE-WwWTrNpEiYg7uEfUj5W-MFCxdDxH51vinZY0UalrGYG7FCps5Cy1hvzXN-qDG9boqMmsD4/w476-h640/HM_Moore2024.jpeg" width="476" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0kZRFotZwaHwop51rUdb6I2xbWx-pGsBJCEOoQpCmTCfOL_UaqvS1Cr2u76PID45dC7v-QzJuz_H8uTVyfQSvNscTtF1a1AHkkUaKdb3IHOnYUhsoFpjnlJozpBegkTm8jeoK-zBXkIFv3W6iecQXhphSoStNU97X8MT8VBeYRh6mvAel2NKvHPTUYDzr/s874/HM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="874" data-original-width="874" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0kZRFotZwaHwop51rUdb6I2xbWx-pGsBJCEOoQpCmTCfOL_UaqvS1Cr2u76PID45dC7v-QzJuz_H8uTVyfQSvNscTtF1a1AHkkUaKdb3IHOnYUhsoFpjnlJozpBegkTm8jeoK-zBXkIFv3W6iecQXhphSoStNU97X8MT8VBeYRh6mvAel2NKvHPTUYDzr/w400-h400/HM.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>smoky manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12245491210538312718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127657554856564350.post-76349932621889647382024-01-30T17:01:00.000+01:002024-01-30T17:01:45.254+01:00Alan Moore by Vida Poppell<div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijBhvJiDtxFne8uCB8K5-w_uWZi8Zep8uohVDil2r3SCPVk8BhmiRfeZWeQLRT44Zj487Z19xYblrFMt1uCB3SFbLbsrF1rVJaZeL7XZceCaxf1UrSQXXiXOPkygQJptiLqAvZOx94hXzMEvWvBwBnXJdRqVVUC5mwgQgoB15UuCElTzlcm6CWkJKOW8Yr/s1282/alan_moore_caricature_by_vidapoppell.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1282" data-original-width="1024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijBhvJiDtxFne8uCB8K5-w_uWZi8Zep8uohVDil2r3SCPVk8BhmiRfeZWeQLRT44Zj487Z19xYblrFMt1uCB3SFbLbsrF1rVJaZeL7XZceCaxf1UrSQXXiXOPkygQJptiLqAvZOx94hXzMEvWvBwBnXJdRqVVUC5mwgQgoB15UuCElTzlcm6CWkJKOW8Yr/w512-h640/alan_moore_caricature_by_vidapoppell.jpg" width="512" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <b><a href="https://www.deviantart.com/vidapoppell/art/Alan-Moore-Caricature-994131128" target="_blank">Vida Poppell</a></b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">Above, an <a href="https://www.deviantart.com/vidapoppell/art/Alan-Moore-Caricature-994131128" target="_blank">interesting caricature</a> of Moore by British artist <a href="https://www.deviantart.com/vidapoppell" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Vida Poppell</span></b></a> that I found out <a href="https://www.deviantart.com/vidapoppell/art/Alan-Moore-Caricature-994131128" target="_blank">on DeviantArt</a>.<br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">For more info about the artist: <a href="https://www.deviantart.com/vidapoppell" target="_blank">DeviantArt</a> - <a href="https://www.artstation.com/vidapoppell " target="_blank">ArtStation</a></div>smoky manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12245491210538312718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127657554856564350.post-32188260995081504972024-01-28T15:12:00.001+01:002024-01-28T15:25:28.248+01:00TCJ Dave Gibbons<div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOOpRVXi2SOBHSHDzppv_7BxR7PI72-MAcuHfh9xJr8279xB8qQ8ydrVE5Z84onLXhh8NB9iFh1u1kNVbzyDEkfF3FR0JKrs7U3qome_9d4uAxTFokqtnco8f2ZtdcAKDSz9E5tAsV2ChtSJcqPxdrzIc2jLTBMdiPh4MQxvhRxTIKUZ5r05-D66v-hpUG/s1739/watchmen_issue_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1739" data-original-width="1129" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOOpRVXi2SOBHSHDzppv_7BxR7PI72-MAcuHfh9xJr8279xB8qQ8ydrVE5Z84onLXhh8NB9iFh1u1kNVbzyDEkfF3FR0JKrs7U3qome_9d4uAxTFokqtnco8f2ZtdcAKDSz9E5tAsV2ChtSJcqPxdrzIc2jLTBMdiPh4MQxvhRxTIKUZ5r05-D66v-hpUG/w416-h640/watchmen_issue_1.jpg" width="416" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <a href="https://www.tcj.com/ive-had-the-life-that-i-wanted-when-i-was-10-years-old-a-conversation-with-dave-gibbons" target="_blank"><b>Dave Gibbons</b></a> from <i>Watchmen </i>n.1<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Below, <a href="https://www.tcj.com/ive-had-the-life-that-i-wanted-when-i-was-10-years-old-a-conversation-with-dave-gibbons/" target="_blank">excerpts from an interview with <b><span style="font-size: medium;">Dave Gibbons</span></b></a> published the <a href="https://www.tcj.com/ive-had-the-life-that-i-wanted-when-i-was-10-years-old-a-conversation-with-dave-gibbons/" target="_blank">15th of January on <i>The Comics Journal</i></a> site. You can <a href="https://www.tcj.com/ive-had-the-life-that-i-wanted-when-i-was-10-years-old-a-conversation-with-dave-gibbons/">read the complete piece <b><span style="font-size: medium;">HERE</span></b></a>. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://www.tcj.com/ive-had-the-life-that-i-wanted-when-i-was-10-years-old-a-conversation-with-dave-gibbons/" target="_blank"></a></b><blockquote><b><a href="https://www.tcj.com/ive-had-the-life-that-i-wanted-when-i-was-10-years-old-a-conversation-with-dave-gibbons/" target="_blank">DAVE GIBBONS</a></b>:<b> </b>[...] For instance, my classic collaboration with Alan Moore doing Watchmen and the other things we did - I felt a great connection in that he was an artist. He was a writer who could draw quite good comics. And I was an artist who could write quite good comics. So we were close together in the middle. [...]<br /><br /><i>Talking about Watchmen's contract</i>: [...] So there was no question of anybody putting pressure on us. It's not even me putting pressure on Alan to sign anything he didn't want. We've all signed bits of paper that we really wish afterwards we hadn't signed. It doesn't necessarily mean that there's any evil intent in it. But what I would say with Alan-- and I think these things go hand in hand. I've become reasonably well-known and famous because of Watchmen. But Alan's talents, and I think Frank Miller's talents, are on a different level than so many of us. What comes along with that degree of talent is a degree of difficulty as well, that people want things from you. That people are continually trying to get you to do things for them. And I think that that can quite often taint things. [...]<br /><br />[...] Well, clearly Watchmen was the Everest of my experience, really. And I'm perfectly at ease with that. It's been good for me in all kinds of ways, not only in whatever money we've made from it, or whatever fame we've had, but it's opened doors to other things. And I've had adventures that I otherwise wouldn't have had. So I'm long since resigned to the obituary reading “Dave 'Watchmen' Gibbons, dead at the age of 105,” you know, blah, blah, blah. I just feel happy that I've had the life that I wanted when I was 10 years old. There's so many people [who] aspire to do things. Perhaps [that’s] because I had a relatively easy thing to aspire to. I mean, I didn't want to get a Nobel Prize or a Pulitzer or anything like that. I just wanted to sit and draw comics. And that was literally what I wanted to do, just to find enjoyment sitting, drawing, coming up with ideas for comics. So I don't care what they call me or-- you know, “Dave Gibbons: the comic fan who never grew up,” or something like that, I guess would be a fairly accurate thing. But I think I'm going to have to settle for Watchmen. <br /></blockquote></div><div style="text-align: center;">The <a href="https://www.tcj.com/ive-had-the-life-that-i-wanted-when-i-was-10-years-old-a-conversation-with-dave-gibbons/" target="_blank">complete interview</a> is available <span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.tcj.com/ive-had-the-life-that-i-wanted-when-i-was-10-years-old-a-conversation-with-dave-gibbons/" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a></span>. <br /></div>smoky manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12245491210538312718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127657554856564350.post-80102133399277212212024-01-20T10:45:00.001+01:002024-01-20T10:46:27.103+01:00Moore Iluminace by Mikulas Podprocky<div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjztg74BNJqFQb66X9c2lG9VpRk4d4F16h4TAhIQWbKfMlPtNn6pSCQYS7NMZMSpTd7U8ZTaVum5jwKF2TsfjRLCrAcNpCww8SRkUg6v7hMLOQMfNnQK8Q2UVvaKcPnJTJxdAxwT6iFsVFHUR4yS0tmXAG-UfriwAQemsY7yUUsOnbNu7CEy9vvSqtYLQgr/s1750/mikulas-podprocky-alanmportrait.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="1297" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjztg74BNJqFQb66X9c2lG9VpRk4d4F16h4TAhIQWbKfMlPtNn6pSCQYS7NMZMSpTd7U8ZTaVum5jwKF2TsfjRLCrAcNpCww8SRkUg6v7hMLOQMfNnQK8Q2UVvaKcPnJTJxdAxwT6iFsVFHUR4yS0tmXAG-UfriwAQemsY7yUUsOnbNu7CEy9vvSqtYLQgr/w474-h640/mikulas-podprocky-alanmportrait.jpg" width="474" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <b><a href="https://www.artstation.com/artwork/5vbo0w" target="_blank">Mikulas Podprocky</a></b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Above, a <a href="https://www.artstation.com/artwork/5vbo0w" target="_blank">great portrait of our Writer from Northampton</a> by Czech artist <b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.artstation.com/artwork/5vbo0w" target="_blank">Mikulas Podprocky</a></span></b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The image has been used as cover for the Czech edition of <i>Illuminations </i>(<i><a href="https://argo.cz/knihy/iluminace/" target="_blank">Iluminace</a></i>) <a href="https://argo.cz/knihy/iluminace/" target="_blank">published by Argo</a> even if the final printed image seems a bit different, as filtered to feel more "material". I confess I prefer the original one.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">More info about the artist at <a href="https://www.artstation.com/mikulasp " target="_blank"><b>Podprocky</b> Artstation page</a>, <b><a href="https://www.artstation.com/mikulasp " target="_blank">here</a></b>.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPizxIZ0tPkA-9Et9ADvKD5ipDyNty2Xc02AVZu_d4ZpEYBybz1OpMJzJpz-mWptkv2_HXTNDeJo29gG0ol5uZUzhbjncPbimYdGieVpG8wAj0rnqJYoB6kW384-3UW4YFM0TZ0W9SHjQvmy7p73zxkMFx57RvvjhgBGo7FsVZWxVsOrbSm5kk9JXn2Hu4/s1456/iluminace.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1456" data-original-width="1032" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPizxIZ0tPkA-9Et9ADvKD5ipDyNty2Xc02AVZu_d4ZpEYBybz1OpMJzJpz-mWptkv2_HXTNDeJo29gG0ol5uZUzhbjncPbimYdGieVpG8wAj0rnqJYoB6kW384-3UW4YFM0TZ0W9SHjQvmy7p73zxkMFx57RvvjhgBGo7FsVZWxVsOrbSm5kk9JXn2Hu4/w454-h640/iluminace.jpg" width="454" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://argo.cz/knihy/iluminace/" target="_blank">Iluminace</a></i> <a href="https://argo.cz/knihy/iluminace/" target="_blank">published by Argo</a></td></tr></tbody></table>smoky manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12245491210538312718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127657554856564350.post-39566541014694342882024-01-11T13:58:00.005+01:002024-01-12T09:12:27.263+01:00Alan Moore Portraits - Excerpts Part 2<div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw2VarMlA8rrZFITXOm_4mbPdeLiKYlbkHNlDw6KT5vDiRvFricepKTQD8tZUBBbPMJ3SmN0vzhF31bGdYe6ORacsJGxVyhAf2DI8QCW41FLcoD0W9uNQ6oA-afJWS2GbsMDoaLP2NsHrZe4JMI82DOHfs9FboftsOj5iC4G7nwV-jVublP5OphAkVR8qW/s976/AM_FP_detail.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="914" data-original-width="976" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw2VarMlA8rrZFITXOm_4mbPdeLiKYlbkHNlDw6KT5vDiRvFricepKTQD8tZUBBbPMJ3SmN0vzhF31bGdYe6ORacsJGxVyhAf2DI8QCW41FLcoD0W9uNQ6oA-afJWS2GbsMDoaLP2NsHrZe4JMI82DOHfs9FboftsOj5iC4G7nwV-jVublP5OphAkVR8qW/w469-h440/AM_FP_detail.jpg" width="469" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <b>Flavio Pessanha</b> (detail)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Below, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">opening lines from the text contributions</a> contained in the <b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/search/label/Alan%20Moore%20Portraits" target="_blank">Alan Moore: Portraits</a></span></b> book, Part 2 (<a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2024/01/alan-moore-portraits-excerpts-part-1.html" target="_blank">Part 1: here</a>). <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">The 150-page book is available on <b><span style="font-size: medium;">Amazon stores</span></b>.</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>From <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank"><b><i>AMERICA'S BEST COMICS WERE ACTUALLY AMERICA'S BEST COMICS</i></b></a> by <b><a href="https://twitter.com/comicscube" target="_blank">Duy Tano</a></b> (page 83)</li></ul><blockquote>I was 17 years old in 1999, and I was this close to quitting comics. I’d been buying them regularly for almost a decade at that point, but with increasing prices and, frankly, an overall lack of what I saw as quality books (I may have just not been looking in the right places), I was really starting to feel like I was outgrowing the hobby. I’d discovered Alan Moore a few months before, via a friend who had lent me <i>Watchmen</i>, and the bar had been raised for what I considered good comics.<br />And just when I was about to throw in the towel, <i>Wizard Magazine</i> came out with an article about Alan Moore’s new <i>America’s Best Comics</i> line, and I immediately put that towel back in the closet where it belonged. [...]</blockquote><ul><li>From <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank"><b><i>TREASURE HUNTING IN THE NINETIES - Moore's lost gems: 1995-1998</i></b></a> by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/miskatonichigh/" target="_blank"><b>Mike Shea</b></a> (page 95)</li></ul><blockquote>For many, Alan Moore’s comics career can be summed up in the broad strokes of working in British comics on <i>V for Vendetta</i>, <i>Halo Jones</i> and <i>Marvelman</i>; going to DC to make <i>Swamp Thing</i> and <i>Watchmen</i>; spurning mainstream comics for serious-minded indies <i>Big Numbers</i> and <i>From Hell</i>; a return to mainstream with <i>The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen</i> and <i>America's Best Comics</i> imprint; and finishing with his H.P. Lovecraft works <i>Neonomicon </i>and <i>Providence</i>.<br />But for those willing to dive into his lesser known and not as easily obtained works, there is buried treasure waiting to be discovered throughout his legendary career. For me, it’s his period from 1995 to 1998 that yields a rich vein of gold worth being brought up to the light not only because it’s so well done, but because it was unexpected. [...]</blockquote><ul><li>From <b><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">A NOT-SO-DIVINE PROVIDENCE - Alan Moore’s exploration of Lovecraft’s mythos and legacy</a></i></b> by <b><a href="https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/people/andrea-tosti(aaa85ba2-2e83-4161-a2cd-56f61b29f47a).html" target="_blank">Andrea Tosti</a></b> (page 107)</li></ul><blockquote><i>Providence </i>represents the third phase of British writer Alan Moore's exploration and reinvention of the incoherent mythological universe American writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft created in the 1920s. Each of these three stages fits into a precise path whose intimate consistency is perceptible only retrospectively. [...]</blockquote><ul><li>From <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank"><i>HATE AND LOVE, 24 FRAMES A SECOND</i></a></b> by <a href="https://english.appstate.edu/faculty-staff/directory/craig-fischer" target="_blank"><b>Craig Fischer</b></a> (page 119)</li></ul><blockquote>In addition to his blunt refusal to see the Hollywood film versions of <i>The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen</i> (2003) and <i>V for Vendetta</i> (2005), Moore is also on record as defining cinema in general as a lesser medium than language and writing. In many texts—<i>From Hell </i>(1989-1998), <i>Promethea </i>(1999-2005), <i>Snakes and Ladders</i> (1999/2001), others—Moore defines language as the primary technology, a system capacious and powerful enough to grant us consciousness, and film can’t compete with Moore’s conception of Language-as-Prime-Mover. [...]</blockquote><ul><li>From <b><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT, ALAN?</a></i></b> by <b><a href="https://library.torontomu.ca/asianheritage/authors/kankesan/" target="_blank">Koom Kankesan</a></b> (page 131)</li></ul><blockquote><i>Seventy!</i> Alan Moore is turning seventy. While I’m sure other contributors to this collection of essays may assay a joke about Alan’s age vis a vis his belief in eternalism, there is something about the number and passage that evokes loss, a sense of life running away from us. We so identify our favourite writers with their works. And those works seem to endure in an enshrined perseverance/preservation of time, so it’s always surprising to see photos of one’s favourite creators through the decades, caught in seemingly meaningless moments such as sharing a drink with friends, strolling down the street with their family, or buying something at a store. But of course, these moments, these humdrum details, are just as essential as the book signings and the talks and the political announcements and everything else which squarely frame the writer’s persona. Writers are not simply brains or minds living in jars of electrified jelly, with that jar being the work they produce. [...]</blockquote><ul><li>From <b><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">ABC AND ME</a></i></b> by <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hogan" target="_blank">Peter Hogan</a></b> (page 143) </li></ul><blockquote>The first time I had a long conversation with Alan Moore was at the height of what we might call Watchmenmania, in 1987 or 1988, when I went up to Northampton to interview him about it for various magazines. We got on well – I’m only six months younger than him, so we share a lot of common reference points and interests – and by the time I’d interviewed him a couple more times over the next five years or so, we’d become friends. [...]</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2024/01/alan-moore-portraits-excerpts-part-1.html" target="_blank"><b>Part 1: HERE</b></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">You can get <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">a copy of the book on <b><span style="font-size: medium;">Amazon stores</span></b></a>.</div>smoky manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12245491210538312718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127657554856564350.post-9578006371635001382024-01-11T11:48:00.004+01:002024-01-11T11:48:33.925+01:00Alan Moore by Rafael Michel <div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_zT10zIublYw8qQbwAYn4CaTjMiQFU7bwOfKLasriUA7xfrtPyuRjjVguq59mpxeCrktScnmiMN7mEhlcznH7lqSTFQUfhYRJ3Cc6FyHOyc-6LyPKfexhKvpQdiBn_SIuw2C4H1RV8ID7Y3rXxg8Q4fQRd5-15p2fJxZXHMImN98moQRXSb4ElchJw1Wy/s1080/moore1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_zT10zIublYw8qQbwAYn4CaTjMiQFU7bwOfKLasriUA7xfrtPyuRjjVguq59mpxeCrktScnmiMN7mEhlcznH7lqSTFQUfhYRJ3Cc6FyHOyc-6LyPKfexhKvpQdiBn_SIuw2C4H1RV8ID7Y3rXxg8Q4fQRd5-15p2fJxZXHMImN98moQRXSb4ElchJw1Wy/w400-h400/moore1.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/desenhista_rafael/p/CtpKgKlv633/?img_index=1" target="_blank">Rafael Michel</a></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">Above and below, a detailed Moore portrait by Brazilian artist <a href="https://www.instagram.com/desenhista_rafael/p/CtpKgKlv633/?img_index=1" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Rafael Michel</span></b></a>.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">More info <a href="https://www.instagram.com/desenhista_rafae" target="_blank">about Michel</a> at his Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/desenhista_rafae" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMlwc47DTsM1-pnpmPt6pHjbseUVvL-BlTqCl-aon7LOO4sxoGRMR4ppe4X6lS7V8j53QzYHVvQSiPMaVehRZYArNouB5eaRpODxZfNzbmkziaNRLxpQIg8CqTdOLADUJvPRFCyS9d107evwQGCg-MBinPKoL98aNNbY4eg4V-7MgqTjyzpIFhAh-exiB5/s1080/moore2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMlwc47DTsM1-pnpmPt6pHjbseUVvL-BlTqCl-aon7LOO4sxoGRMR4ppe4X6lS7V8j53QzYHVvQSiPMaVehRZYArNouB5eaRpODxZfNzbmkziaNRLxpQIg8CqTdOLADUJvPRFCyS9d107evwQGCg-MBinPKoL98aNNbY4eg4V-7MgqTjyzpIFhAh-exiB5/w400-h400/moore2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/desenhista_rafael/p/CtpKgKlv633/?img_index=1" target="_blank">Rafael Michel</a></b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div>smoky manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12245491210538312718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127657554856564350.post-68686080463978194392024-01-07T14:53:00.004+01:002024-01-12T09:13:25.510+01:00Alan Moore Portraits - Excerpts Part 1<div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_6DlKweKjaCSp1swqoKTsAuvmlx9uJkYapQJOO2wpWADio_wrYtmbX42_qGKpMoeN3JPN7FcYVXoPq3D1RGY8vrIciA5bAxrfzroG7rrK_TB_dpjAkc0PiM8fhGxTLSnP9MFiT0035x8lQoCx6DSS1cTFvYZ76CuQwQtU2ZVyl5yIza0tEIRIKybyT2nq/s1137/GSM_Moore_no_color.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1137" data-original-width="799" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_6DlKweKjaCSp1swqoKTsAuvmlx9uJkYapQJOO2wpWADio_wrYtmbX42_qGKpMoeN3JPN7FcYVXoPq3D1RGY8vrIciA5bAxrfzroG7rrK_TB_dpjAkc0PiM8fhGxTLSnP9MFiT0035x8lQoCx6DSS1cTFvYZ76CuQwQtU2ZVyl5yIza0tEIRIKybyT2nq/w450-h640/GSM_Moore_no_color.jpg" width="450" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <b><a href="https://www.millidge.com/twenty-years-moore/" target="_blank">Gary Spencer Millidge</a></b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Below, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">opening lines from the text contributions</a> contained in the <b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/search/label/Alan%20Moore%20Portraits" target="_blank">Alan Moore: Portraits</a></span></b> book, Part 1. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">The 150-page book is available on <b><span style="font-size: medium;">Amazon stores</span></b>.</a> <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li>From <b><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">MAN’S LIFE IS THIS MEAT</a></i></b> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Sinclair" target="_blank"><b>Iain Sinclair</b></a> (page 11)</li></ul><blockquote>With the dubious benediction of old age, a decade more than my allotted biblical span, tired eyes fail but the picture sharpens. Our future is not ‘used up’ as Marlene Dietrich lays on Orson Welles in <i>Touch of Evil</i>, but invigorated, ripe with inventions from a misused past. Potential is now absolute. Veterans hanging around beyond their mortal permissions have an enhanced sense of the world: we are on the cusp of being absorbed into its tacky substance. Disnatured, we leak through former inhibitions, invisible boundaries. We are everywhere. At once. Our own grandfathers. Our children.<br /><br />Alan Moore, from my side of the grass, is a young man: permanently so. I mean in his boundless energy, his productivity, his continued interest in the obligatory madness of things. And his preternatural ability to ingest the information he needs and to formulate a great synthesis in popular form. [...]</blockquote><ul><li>From <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank"><b><i>FANDOM, FANZINES, AND THE SMALL PRESS: A LOOK BACK</i></b></a> by <b><a href="http://www.russell-willis.com/p/blog-page.html" target="_blank">Russell Willis</a></b> (page 19)</li></ul><blockquote>“<i>I really love fanzines… I’d much rather do work for a fanzine and not get paid than do work for a slimy media parasite … and not get paid. I think the difference lies in the purity of intentions behind the editorial policy. Fanzine eds whatever their individual quirks, are putting in a lot of work purely out of love for the medium and desire to help and understand it.</i>” –– Alan Moore<br /><br />When Alan wrote the above to me in 1984 (I was 16) I had no knowledge of his involvement in fanzines or fandom. I had collected older fanzines that were before my time (and often before my ability to read), such as <i>BEM</i>, <i>Comic Media News International</i> and the pre-Martin Lock <i>Fantasy Advertiser</i> but hadn’t come across his name. I assumed Alan hadn’t been involved. I was wrong. He was there, of course, further back than I was able to go, right at the very beginning… [...]</blockquote><ul><li>From <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank"><i>THE FOUR-DIMENSIONAL ARCHITECT - Two locations on the Map-Land of the Wizard</i></a></b> by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2022/12/la-mappaterra-del-mago.html" target="_blank">Francesco Pelosi</a> </b>(page 35)</li></ul><blockquote><i>From Hell: The House that Jack Built</i><br />I don't know when Alan Moore came in contact with Rudy Rucker’s <i>The Fourth Dimension</i>, but when writing <i>From Hell</i>, the ten-year work on Jack the Ripper’s murders co-created with Eddie Campbell, he was well aware of it. [...]</blockquote><ul><li>From <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank"><b><i>FLAME ON! - More Moore memories</i></b></a> by <b><a href="http://paulgravett.com/" target="_blank">Paul Gravett</a></b> (page 49)</li></ul><blockquote>The early 1980s were a creative ferment for British comics and through this formative period and early professional comics career, Alan Moore was caught up in the thick of it. Xerography helped more people to self-publish fanzines about comics as well as small press comics themselves. Often in modest print runs, with finishing, stapling, perhaps cover-colouring, of necessity usually done by hand. From starting the Fast Fiction table to sell self-published titles at the bimonthly Comic Marts at the Central Hall, Westminster (right across the square from the Houses of Parliament), the next step was to pick out some of most interesting and distinctive voices among them and put them into a bigger, bolder anthology. It was my partner Peter Stanbury who came up with the title and used his handwriting of it as our logo. <i>Escape </i>would feature quite a range of written contributions by Alan over its nineteen-issue run between 1983 and 1989. [...]</blockquote><ul><li>From <i><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">A CHANGE IN THE AIR</a></b></i> by <a href="https://tripwiremagazine.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b>Joel Meadows</b></a> (page 55)</li></ul><blockquote>The year was 1986 and I was only thirteen years old. Earlier that year I had been blown away by Frank Miller’s <i>The Dark Knight Returns</i>, a comic with an approach to Batman unlike any I had seen before. In May of that year, I went into my local comic shop in London to grab <i>Watchmen </i>n.1, a series which had been advertised in other DC books before it was published. I wasn’t a <i>2000AD</i> reader as a kid so my exposure to Moore had been limited up to this point. I had seen him and Gibbons create Green Lantern stories for DC’s book of the same name which were fun but I wasn’t prepared for <i>Watchmen</i>. [...]</blockquote><ul><li>From <b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank"><i>THIS IS INFORMATION</i></a></b> by <a href="https://slavic.washington.edu/people/jose-alaniz" target="_blank"><b>José Alaniz</b></a> (page 61)</li></ul><blockquote>Scarcely four months after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Dark Horse put out a collection, <i>9-11: Artists Respond</i>. The gashes were still fresh, the dead still being counted (or pieced together), the toxic reek still wafting over Manhattan. That’s the context for Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s contribution, the six-page comics essay “This is Information.”<br /><br />The piece is somber, respectful of the moment and the victims. Still, upon first reading it in January, 2002, I was struck by how different it was in tone from all the other works in the collection, indeed from virtually all discourses about 9-11 which we had been steeped in up ‘til then. [...]</blockquote><ul><li>From <b><i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">SHAMAN OF IMAGINATION - Random thoughts on the magic side of Moore</a></i></b> by <b><a href="https://fumettologica.it/author/adriano-ercolani/" target="_blank">Adriano Ercolani</a></b> (page 71)</li></ul><blockquote>In 1993, to celebrate his 40th birthday, Alan Moore declared himself a ceremonial magician.<br /><br />In an interview published in <i>Entertainment Weekly</i>, he says: “I was turning 40 and thinking, Oh dear, I'm probably going to have one of those midlife crisis things which always just bore the hell out of everybody. So it would probably be better if, rather than just having a midlife crisis, I just went completely screaming mad and declared myself to be a magician. That would, at least, be more colourful. So, I announced, on the night of my 40th birthday party — probably after more beers than I should have had — that, 'from this point on, I'm going to become a magician’. And then the next morning you have to think, Oh, what have I said now? Are we going to have to go through with this? So I had to go about finding out what a magician was and what they did.” [...] </blockquote><p><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2024/01/alan-moore-portraits-excerpts-part-2.html" target="_blank"><b>Part 2: HERE</b></a> <br /></p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">You can get <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">a copy of the book on <b><span style="font-size: medium;">Amazon stores</span></b></a>.</div>smoky manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12245491210538312718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127657554856564350.post-73045026638973995502024-01-04T16:00:00.002+01:002024-01-05T15:43:20.497+01:00Neil Gaiman and Bruce Dickinson on Watchmen<div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAjPjz0yFdslkQYFFRjeabpN43wmCQk6KhC0GG92OjAt-i01lmKb3ggLe8HM390sGz3ImYZz_s1Ev0DGQG_xul9QRHLGr1I38coXtqJyM3CVF0ZiZAT59fYT5LZ5vdx9-5Ab5nYpJnnEZUiQYMepwjE-zbMGqih3QwBQpMplRcGtSRbsX6iriic_5kLPNn/s800/watchmen-journey_planet_77.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="522" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAjPjz0yFdslkQYFFRjeabpN43wmCQk6KhC0GG92OjAt-i01lmKb3ggLe8HM390sGz3ImYZz_s1Ev0DGQG_xul9QRHLGr1I38coXtqJyM3CVF0ZiZAT59fYT5LZ5vdx9-5Ab5nYpJnnEZUiQYMepwjE-zbMGqih3QwBQpMplRcGtSRbsX6iriic_5kLPNn/w418-h640/watchmen-journey_planet_77.webp" width="418" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://journeyplanet.weebly.com/journey-planet---2021-hugo-nominee/journey-planet-77-watchmen" target="_blank">Cover art by <b>Iain Clarke</b></a> (after Gibbons)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Below, two little excerpts by <b>Neil Gaiman</b> and <b>Bruce Dickinson</b> (<i>Iron Maiden</i> lead singer) from <b><a href="http://journeyplanet.weebly.com/journey-planet---2021-hugo-nominee/journey-planet-77-watchmen" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Journey Planet n. 77</span></i></a></b>.<b> <br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://journeyplanet.weebly.com/journey-planet---2021-hugo-nominee/journey-planet-77-watchmen" target="_blank"></a></b><blockquote><b><a href="http://journeyplanet.weebly.com/journey-planet---2021-hugo-nominee/journey-planet-77-watchmen" target="_blank">Journey Planet</a>: Do you have any opinion on <i>Watchmen</i>'s place in comics' history?</b><br /><b>Neil Gaiman</b>:
For me, it was a revelation. I had imagined comics that literate and
smart but they didn't exist. I loved the process of reading one issue
and then rereading it all. For me <i>Watchmen </i>exists in black and white.
That's how I read them, in photocopy form.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://journeyplanet.weebly.com/journey-planet---2021-hugo-nominee/journey-planet-77-watchmen" target="_blank">Journey Planet</a>: What sort of impression on you did [<i>Watchmen</i>] leave?</b><br /><b>Bruce Dickinson</b>:
<i> Watchmen </i>for me is the gold standard of comics. It can stand repeated
readings and still have secrets to reveal. It's something to aspire to
in my opinion.</blockquote></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://journeyplanet.weebly.com/journey-planet---2021-hugo-nominee/journey-planet-77-watchmen" target="_blank"><i>Journey Planet</i></a></b> is an acclaimed sci-fi and comics fanzine. <a href="http://journeyplanet.weebly.com/journey-planet---2021-hugo-nominee/journey-planet-77-watchmen" target="_blank">Its 77th issue</a>, released at the end of December, is fully <a href="http://journeyplanet.weebly.com/journey-planet---2021-hugo-nominee/journey-planet-77-watchmen" target="_blank">focused on <span style="font-size: medium;">Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins' <i><b>Watchmen</b></i></span></a>. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Editors: James Bacon, Michael Carroll, Chris Garcia, Helena Nash and Pádraig Ó Méalóid.<br /><br />The 96-page project, <a href="http://journeyplanet.weebly.com/journey-planet---2021-hugo-nominee/journey-planet-77-watchmen" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">free to download right <b>HERE</b></span></a>, presents analysis and contributions on <i>Watchmen </i>from different angles including short interviews with Neil Gaiman, Bryan Talbot, Antony Johnston, Bruce Dickinson and Peter Hogan; longer interviews with Paul Levitz and John Higgins; Todd Klein on Dave Gibbons’ iconic lettering and... much more!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can get the <a href="http://journeyplanet.weebly.com/journey-planet---2021-hugo-nominee/journey-planet-77-watchmen" target="_blank"><b>complete package HERE</b></a>. <a href="http://journeyplanet.weebly.com/journey-planet---2021-hugo-nominee/journey-planet-77-watchmen" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Highly recommended!</span></a><br /></div>smoky manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12245491210538312718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127657554856564350.post-50091956298407975752023-12-18T13:42:00.001+01:002023-12-20T11:04:20.363+01:00smoky intro for Alan Moore: Portraits<div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifh57SZh92diNy8QcwZFMnkX5QnMsOd7KAHM4MY0BnzYrSsvNskX35tb_4ZylhXi5yHAQ9WGs5O4vkUTE_uaskVUe8qnoIFlVkYo3vLeH0eRJIXBcqMRuC_VaG9VdsGugU9-xQ0v8jCanWFI345cZOoRe-WChY6FpYbLbYX0zuqyUv3gls4IPLgjNKnHxr/s939/Testoni_excerpt.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="939" data-original-width="709" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifh57SZh92diNy8QcwZFMnkX5QnMsOd7KAHM4MY0BnzYrSsvNskX35tb_4ZylhXi5yHAQ9WGs5O4vkUTE_uaskVUe8qnoIFlVkYo3vLeH0eRJIXBcqMRuC_VaG9VdsGugU9-xQ0v8jCanWFI345cZOoRe-WChY6FpYbLbYX0zuqyUv3gls4IPLgjNKnHxr/w484-h640/Testoni_excerpt.jpg" width="484" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail from the portrait by <a href="https://nicolatestoni.com/" target="_blank"><b>Nicola Testoni</b></a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Below you can read the introduction I wrote for our <i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">Alan Moore: Portraits of an Extraordinary Gentleman</a></span></b></i> book, available (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank"><b>ENGLISH </b>only</a>) in all the Amazon stores. It's a little smoky thing...<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-book-for-moore-70-portraits.html" target="_blank">You can read more details about the book <b>HERE</b></a></span>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i></i><blockquote><i>I'm a kind of writer, performer, magician... and a kind of urban legend who has lived in Northampton all of his life and has clearly not seen very much of the world but has written a lot about it.</i><br />- <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GreyfriarsIslandProject/videos/alan-moore-tells-us-why-hes-supporting-the-greyfriars-island-project/1458229671038746/" target="_blank"><b>Alan Moore</b>, interviewed by Michaela Blackburn</a> in front of his house in Northampton, 2020<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">WE ARE ALWAYS HERE</a></span></b><br /></blockquote><p></p><blockquote>Here I am again. After twenty years.<br />Maybe, if you are reading this, I’d better say… <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">here WE are again. After twenty years</a>.<br />Time flies, doesn’t it?<br /><br />Or we’d better say, THIS time has always been HERE, if we accept the idea of Eternalism and the block universe, two concepts that Alan Moore has embraced and shared.<br />So, we are always here celebrating Moore’s 70th birthday. As we are always here celebrating his 50th birthday. It’s just a matter of being at the right point in time. Sort of.<br />Well, these concepts are mind-blowing, aren’t they?<br /><br />Trying to simplify, <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">we are here to celebrate Alan Moore</a> with words and pictures conjured by a variety of talented contributors. As it happened for the <i>Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman</i> book in 2003, it all started with a simple thought: ‘It’s 2023… <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">let’s do something for Uncle Al’s 70</a>!’… and it ended as you know. And you know it because, right now, you are holding this book in your hands. I just tried to maintain a little control over it, avoiding exponential growth as it happened for the <i>Portrait</i>. (Gary, do you remember?)<br />Also note that at the time I am writing this, I am not completely aware of the final form of this book.<br />Time is a bit of a mess, at least from a human perception point of view.<br /><br />However, <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">I am sure this book is full of love</a> and appreciation for our beloved and admired Magus from Northampton and for his creations. Obviously, it is not meant to be a comprehensive portrait. Could it ever be? It just offers an investigation of some aspects of Moore through short (maybe not always so short) essays and memories written for this occasion by his collaborators, friends, and scholars.<br /><br />For the visual part, we have, well… a series of awesome, bearded portraits drawn by different artists from all over the world. These are mostly from my personal collection which has grown steadily over the years. (Yes, I know that it sounds like some sort of ‘perversion’, but the incredible amount of Moore’s portraits available on the web can demonstrate I am not alone in this, and that The Man is a real, contemporary icon. Yes, He is!)<br />Furthermore, we have some portraits drawn specifically for this celebration.<br /><br />So… a big ‘GRAZIE’ to all the contributors – both writers and artists – who generously answered this call.<br /><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">We are all here to celebrate Alan</a> – Alan, can I call you by name? Can I? After all, I collected all those portraits of yours… – wish him ‘Happy birthday!’ and say ‘Thank you for all your stories, especially those yet to come’. We all hope you, Alan, would enjoy this little gift. We put a lot of genuine passion into it and had a lot of fun doing it, I must admit.<br /></blockquote><p></p><blockquote>I also need to mention that, in these complex times we are all living in, the net profits generated by this book will be donated to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9decins_Sans_Fronti%C3%A8res" target="_blank"><i>Doctors Without Borders</i>, a necessary and praiseworthy NGO</a>.<br /><br />Last but not least: very special thanks to my extraordinary friends and comics lovers <b>Omar Martini</b>, <b>Gary Spencer Millidge</b> and <b>Angelo Secci</b>, always ready to support me, and whose contribution and expertise were fundamental to have this project materialized from the Idea-Space into the real, tangible world.<br />Grazie, bros!<br /><br />So… <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">It’s party time, now</a>.<br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">AUGURI, Alan! <i>A chent’annos</i>!</span><br /></b><br /><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/p/about-this-blog.html" target="_blank">smoky man</a>,<br />Sardinia, August 2023</blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you prefer to read the intro in Italian, I translated it for the friends at <a href="https://fumettologica.it/2023/12/70-anni-alan-moore-portraits-extraordinary-gentleman/" target="_blank"><i>Fumettologica</i></a>. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">You can find it <a href="https://fumettologica.it/2023/12/70-anni-alan-moore-portraits-extraordinary-gentleman/" target="_blank">here</a>.<i> </i></span><br /></div></div>smoky manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12245491210538312718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127657554856564350.post-10731204187622086182023-12-15T14:59:00.002+01:002023-12-15T15:04:05.978+01:00Portrait & Portraits <div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwg6xyS5_-bQiAg9-fJBmRsTUk0OvpMpBVxhQqGTbf5pWpn6yitPDlZU0LMpIhIRkjnO9kU5-7GugSu1w-3OAbyg84ybmZXNOw7EbedCgzRcsP3uObiJWbOdYyQqQUgU7Tx-lKChWQKoZqzrMZ92lcxJUMIVj7F5x6ESj70HV2QB9R78wWh0XiNC9Rpu5S/s1080/2Portraits.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwg6xyS5_-bQiAg9-fJBmRsTUk0OvpMpBVxhQqGTbf5pWpn6yitPDlZU0LMpIhIRkjnO9kU5-7GugSu1w-3OAbyg84ybmZXNOw7EbedCgzRcsP3uObiJWbOdYyQqQUgU7Tx-lKChWQKoZqzrMZ92lcxJUMIVj7F5x6ESj70HV2QB9R78wWh0XiNC9Rpu5S/w400-h400/2Portraits.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Above, a great picture I was extremely pleased to see <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C0n9MQFNEE1/" target="_blank">on the Web in the past days</a>. Thanks Flavio for the tip!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's from <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/jacek.zulawnik/" target="_blank">Jacek Żuławnik</a></b>'s Instagram (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C0n9MQFNEE1/" target="_blank">here the original source</a>). Żuławnik is a Polish professional translator from English and.... a Moore-logist, of course! Grazie, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jacek.zulawnik/" target="_blank">Jacek</a>! </div><div style="text-align: justify;">20 years can be a great amount of time and... a blink of an eye!<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2023/12/a-book-for-moore-70-portraits.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Details about </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>ALAN MOORE: PORTRAITS</i></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i>book</span><span style="font-size: medium;">, </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>HERE</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span><br /></div>smoky manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12245491210538312718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127657554856564350.post-53546473253659489982023-12-01T16:59:00.007+01:002024-01-02T09:03:45.134+01:00A book for Moore 70: Portraits<div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEzIcvbES8MOrI3Sb0QTGwh9VL59umIQ7bFLgVkxAU21NwcSDPpDmmZPiGujrri0w2RZCX_Ay9v79CcGT7vHC2w0Md4FRzQrklwlJ9PxraKyM30fHxCxFMyPAM8s9ul2SQqd9KcesNb_WYBVVwKgSnGNDMxdGjemXSGtAOSulJhH-rvlEIXTB9RIstdXeJ/s1550/cover-AlanMoore_front.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1550" data-original-width="987" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEzIcvbES8MOrI3Sb0QTGwh9VL59umIQ7bFLgVkxAU21NwcSDPpDmmZPiGujrri0w2RZCX_Ay9v79CcGT7vHC2w0Md4FRzQrklwlJ9PxraKyM30fHxCxFMyPAM8s9ul2SQqd9KcesNb_WYBVVwKgSnGNDMxdGjemXSGtAOSulJhH-rvlEIXTB9RIstdXeJ/w408-h640/cover-AlanMoore_front.jpg" width="408" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cover art by <b><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/ALAN-MOORE-PORTRAITS-EXTRAORDINARY-assistance/dp/B0CP8HRRTF/" target="_blank">Gary Spencer Millidge</a> </b>(based on a photograph by <b>Joe Brown</b>)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>We did it, AGAIN! 20 years after the <i>Alan Moore: Portrait</i>, I <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/ALAN-MOORE-PORTRAITS-EXTRAORDINARY-assistance/dp/B0CP8HRRTF/" target="_blank">conceived and edited a new book</a> (<u><span style="font-size: medium;">in English only</span></u>) to celebrate The Man and wish him a collective "Happy birthday"! </div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's a little <b><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/ALAN-MOORE-PORTRAITS-EXTRAORDINARY-assistance/dp/B0CP8HRRTF/" target="_blank">belated birthday gift</a></b> and an advance X-Mas present but... <b><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/ALAN-MOORE-PORTRAITS-EXTRAORDINARY-assistance/dp/B0CP8HRRTF/" target="_blank">it's HERE</a></b>!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>ALAN MOORE:</b></i></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Portraits of an Extraordinary Gentleman</b></i></span></a></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><i>A celebration of the acclaimed British writer ALAN MOORE on the occasion of his 70th birthday.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF" target="_blank">This 150-page volume</a> contains short essays, memories and portraits by 50+ contributors including <b>Gary Spencer Millidge</b> (cover), <b>Iain Sinclair</b> (foreword), <b>Peter Hogan </b>(afterword), <b>Paul Gravett</b>, <b>Russell Willis</b>, <b>John Coulthart</b>, <b>Koom Kankesan</b>, <b>Gene Ha</b>, <b>Zander Cannon</b>, <b>Hilary Barta</b>, <b>Jacen Burrows</b></i>, <b><i>Eduardo Risso</i></b>, <i><b>Hunt Emerson</b>, and more (see the complete list in the image below).<br /><br /><b>100% of the net profits proceed from this book are to be donated to the NGO Doctors Without Borders. </b></i></blockquote></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilaO-KaumbfxDEunqCUjVs62fo-8hLJwVLBjZOyi9hba3OutbZtA_yiaahv_Ak8ekhzb7BxXzUJxn9maOncJ6WImE5hyylGNEiUOnYDCvI0x3rVqKXCGw3pwFwZ3XyLCtHYT9_IC1-i_CjgVFIKZsL0gUGkxziiBc44pTGuWt81VTWuaXs7UuXsXHi78sV/s927/AM70backcover.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="927" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilaO-KaumbfxDEunqCUjVs62fo-8hLJwVLBjZOyi9hba3OutbZtA_yiaahv_Ak8ekhzb7BxXzUJxn9maOncJ6WImE5hyylGNEiUOnYDCvI0x3rVqKXCGw3pwFwZ3XyLCtHYT9_IC1-i_CjgVFIKZsL0gUGkxziiBc44pTGuWt81VTWuaXs7UuXsXHi78sV/w414-h640/AM70backcover.jpg" width="414" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's a <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/ALAN-MOORE-PORTRAITS-EXTRAORDINARY-assistance/dp/B0CP8HRRTF/" target="_blank">DIY production</a>, a labour of love, with no publisher attached, so it's available only on Amazon stores. It's the solution that we found to manage distribution and make the book available to all the readers interested, world wide. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">So check it on the following direct links or simply search it on Amazon (I suggest "Alan Moore smoky man" as keywords).</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="yiv3104782421" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;"><span class="yiv3104782421" style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a class="yiv3104782421" href="https://kdp.amazon.com/amazon-dp-action/us/dualbookshelf.marketplacelink/B0CP8HRRTF" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span class="yiv3104782421" style="color: blue;"><span class="yiv3104782421" style="color: blue;">US</span></span></a><span class="yiv3104782421" style="color: blue;"><span class="yiv3104782421" style="color: blue;"> 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class="yiv3104782421" style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a class="yiv3104782421" href="https://kdp.amazon.com/amazon-dp-action/au/dualbookshelf.marketplacelink/B0CP8HRRTF" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank"><span class="yiv3104782421" style="color: blue;"><span class="yiv3104782421" style="color: blue;">AU</span></span></a></span></span></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It needed a lot of hard work and <b>I couldn't have done it <span style="font-size: medium;">without the amazing contribution of all the artists and writers</span> who generously answered the call</b>. <span style="font-size: medium;">GRAZIE a tutti.</span> I am really proud of the final result. Thank you, AGAIN! (Special thanks to Omar & Angelo for their unwavering support.) And...We all hope that Alan will like it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Below, the full content list and some sample pages. Enjoy! </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ancora Auguri, Alan. <i>A chent'annos</i>! :)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHxRBgfIwvBr1s3cyLlCVYlOfUBcrKwANh8blEAPh_3PAqyFg0vVY0iQWwiPFrHPfOfAPEnWpaZaL1BjsMeaeoLvhiCRvf6PG4q-Vke2KbWa9KIdWP3MxWy6PDWd9XPP_Qb7zp86jKMPxPiaF6rVcHCc_0boHk9vaqOaTvmVultVfnKv791vOqCB5Ri1S1/s1400/AMPortraits-150.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="900" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHxRBgfIwvBr1s3cyLlCVYlOfUBcrKwANh8blEAPh_3PAqyFg0vVY0iQWwiPFrHPfOfAPEnWpaZaL1BjsMeaeoLvhiCRvf6PG4q-Vke2KbWa9KIdWP3MxWy6PDWd9XPP_Qb7zp86jKMPxPiaF6rVcHCc_0boHk9vaqOaTvmVultVfnKv791vOqCB5Ri1S1/w412-h640/AMPortraits-150.jpg" width="412" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3p7SL2jNvk6FV1tAVjVAM23UOIcqqsV1sNFPUDuYsWLVmyJ1zPxM4wCxaqipJOf0ASX7H0BpCkyZM8Xl1r0OIoCyPLdjG5yvF53hbMGuRMeb5Q6BMAPjj6ZW7ozGDCpZX99Zrvq6SKSLMWuMco_1Zd_J6NC_gNOGJEFnXUKXVR0QYCknKXOqxSfEsQ3UI/s1400/AMPortraits-151.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqltinchZS1C7Chj4uxP7KVLydXVW2mH_yrPm4J5tukJEuS-Cj13F1bPVmFf2AZZcdjmb_WtTODSxiw8WyiEycuAEigUHcdLWxreEWAjdBeYndoMjXbpRwSnhIAzvyBYhX6gaij89MRig6ctOaaSQze8PaHEOEkpgfEPa9KR_emiWUlBKv0PcfwZ34Q3rS/s894/FdC335.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="894" data-original-width="661" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqltinchZS1C7Chj4uxP7KVLydXVW2mH_yrPm4J5tukJEuS-Cj13F1bPVmFf2AZZcdjmb_WtTODSxiw8WyiEycuAEigUHcdLWxreEWAjdBeYndoMjXbpRwSnhIAzvyBYhX6gaij89MRig6ctOaaSQze8PaHEOEkpgfEPa9KR_emiWUlBKv0PcfwZ34Q3rS/w474-h640/FdC335.jpg" width="474" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cover art by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/search/label/Carlos%20Dearmas" target="_blank">Carlos Dearmas</a></b>. Colours by Luca Paciolus.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Today is the day!</span> <a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/search/label/birthday" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Happy 70th birthday, Alan!</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Upon request from the friends at <b><i><a href="http://www.fumodichina.com/" target="_blank">Fumo di China</a></i></b> (which is a long-standing Italian magazine fully focused on Comic Art), I put together a 6-page special to celebrate the great event. With a gorgeous cover art by <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-magus-and-his-tarot-cards-by-carlos.html" target="_blank">Carlos Dearmas</a></b> & colours by Luca Paciolus.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The special contains a 4-page article that I wrote titled "<i>Parole da Moore</i>" (<i>Words by Moore</i>) with Moore portraits by <a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2020/12/moore-glycon-and-smax-by-gene-ha.html" target="_blank"><b>Gene Ha</b></a>, <a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2019/09/universal-moore-by-angelo-secci.html" target="_blank"><b>Angelo Secci</b></a>, <a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2017/10/mighty-moore-by-leomacs.html" target="_blank"><b>Leomacs</b></a>, <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2023/10/alan-moore-by-lorenzo-mo.html" target="_blank">Lorenzo Mò</a></b>, <a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2023/08/stylish-moore-by-giacomo-putzu.html" target="_blank"><b>Giacomo Putzu</b></a> and <b><a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2023/10/doppelganger-moore-by-officina-infernale.html" target="_blank">Officina Infernale</a></b>. Furthermore, the special includes a brief Moore profile, selected excepts from the <a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2019/11/moore-on-jerusalem-eternalism-anarchy.html" target="_blank">famous Sassaki's interview</a> and 7 opinions about Moore from his peers and friends.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">All in Italian, of course. Scusate. Sorry.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Special thanks to Carlos, Luca, Gene, Angelo, Massimiliano, Lorenzo, Giacomo, Andrea and Raphael for their collaboration and permission.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The magazine (<i>Fumo di China</i> n. 335) will be available next week in all the Italian news-stands & comic shops (of good taste). </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Visit <b><i><a href="http://www.fumodichina.com/" target="_blank">Fumo di China</a></i></b> site (<b><a href="http://www.fumodichina.com/" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>) or their <b><i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/FdChina/posts/pfbid0CePo7qJRLFrkubCkoDooqzSdH9KiDqw5dwdwNMqXBmwcKiJy9NcTLq9fGmKL6D71l" target="_blank">FB page</a></i></b> (<b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/FdChina/posts/pfbid0CePo7qJRLFrkubCkoDooqzSdH9KiDqw5dwdwNMqXBmwcKiJy9NcTLq9fGmKL6D71l" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>) for more information.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Again... Auguri, Alan! <i>A chent'annos</i>. Have a great day!<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">(And maybe there is something moore to come...)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrY0ized4BgVOghVy_IKarcvXnLmVnddK_4toqWxXmRUdWX_C0ni0-A6DfwlQTECsccZXJUz4QAvGDE5qNVc2TO-QAwcMoG2ASyHOe71H9mVNaRUuern6ZaZFfC8QsCRpUMfEEaNTwa5pm3YuVZH7rXQlOi3cY_xbC1iEEzkYBgvBfjn2qK84c56JExCwz/s524/FdC335_page6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="524" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrY0ized4BgVOghVy_IKarcvXnLmVnddK_4toqWxXmRUdWX_C0ni0-A6DfwlQTECsccZXJUz4QAvGDE5qNVc2TO-QAwcMoG2ASyHOe71H9mVNaRUuern6ZaZFfC8QsCRpUMfEEaNTwa5pm3YuVZH7rXQlOi3cY_xbC1iEEzkYBgvBfjn2qK84c56JExCwz/s16000/FdC335_page6.jpg" /></a></div></div><p></p>smoky manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12245491210538312718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127657554856564350.post-71247844042230565122023-11-17T19:33:00.006+01:002023-11-17T19:34:37.140+01:00Alan Moore by Alessandro Aroffu<div style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI3B61yRAxIlCvOlCVDJNIXZC1fzdI8P78StbLoktMFbNhCRXmcLhCPaIs4QAjSsbv338h4CTLv85hpJGLgRTgcX3PnnC9h_vHKOTGuRj1I24tzBNwcDNG7VA6V5xOPG_rNF2VIzMYdqVxluS3LjWLxBfZiN3rIm-MJO9F8syGu1nAZRTKqYHHnm1J8wQ6/s1507/Alan%20Moore_Aroffu.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1507" data-original-width="1079" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI3B61yRAxIlCvOlCVDJNIXZC1fzdI8P78StbLoktMFbNhCRXmcLhCPaIs4QAjSsbv338h4CTLv85hpJGLgRTgcX3PnnC9h_vHKOTGuRj1I24tzBNwcDNG7VA6V5xOPG_rNF2VIzMYdqVxluS3LjWLxBfZiN3rIm-MJO9F8syGu1nAZRTKqYHHnm1J8wQ6/w458-h640/Alan%20Moore_Aroffu.jpg" width="458" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/alessandro_aroffu/" target="_blank">Alessandro Aroffu</a></b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">Above, a great Alan Moore portrait by Italian comic book artist <a href="https://www.instagram.com/alessandro_aroffu/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Alessandro Aroffu</span></b></a>. You can also recognise some familiar faces and... <a href="https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2013/02/alan-moore-and-sardinian-mask.html" target="_blank">a Sardinian mask</a>, too. Grazie mille, amico!</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Alessandro loves stories, comics and... bees. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For more info about him, visit his <a href="https://www.instagram.com/alessandro_aroffu/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>: <b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/alessandro_aroffu/" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>.</div>smoky manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12245491210538312718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127657554856564350.post-1868779506752643602023-11-13T22:00:00.003+01:002023-11-13T22:01:44.100+01:00The artist as a young man by Claudio Calia<div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaj8TeqizTXTHw8QS0ywLFGTV7C7giQsKh7AQPhwj5dKSC6kppxCFSKMhF6cFJB3yntWR60WDyqpZaR2RKcxMoEFFR-Wz6-c37CRLYLVceNtBwuBPlSAzcBkZMjTtuxGWelAd-laKR9OLlSnsyO1WctY67xbDl-HQRTYflIcDXEYiuzXiCe01Qx21TQn5M/s1085/alanmoore_calia_2023.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1085" data-original-width="769" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaj8TeqizTXTHw8QS0ywLFGTV7C7giQsKh7AQPhwj5dKSC6kppxCFSKMhF6cFJB3yntWR60WDyqpZaR2RKcxMoEFFR-Wz6-c37CRLYLVceNtBwuBPlSAzcBkZMjTtuxGWelAd-laKR9OLlSnsyO1WctY67xbDl-HQRTYflIcDXEYiuzXiCe01Qx21TQn5M/w454-h640/alanmoore_calia_2023.jpg" width="454" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <b><a href="http://www.claudiocalia.it" target="_blank">Claudio Calia</a></b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Above, a portrait of The Man from Northampton directly from... the 80ies, by Italian comic book artist and graphic journalist <b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.claudiocalia.it" target="_blank">Claudio Calia</a></span></b>. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.claudiocalia.it" target="_blank">Calia</a> has published several graphic novels on social and political subjects and has contributed to many indie projects and festivals. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Grazie mille, <a href="http://www.claudiocalia.it" target="_blank">Claudio</a>!</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For more info about the artist, visit his official site: <b><a href="http://www.claudiocalia.it" target="_blank">HERE</a></b>. </div>smoky manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12245491210538312718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127657554856564350.post-90883961957968751442023-11-10T19:12:00.006+01:002023-11-10T19:15:03.138+01:00Hitchcock's gems<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWOZrdVniOKbeJl5Sa7eIedjs3vjuZCNKhQ4ZVpSCvPXeXgfWGKO3fjopcPC6j-rPsqJnk6i-BHCmuvm_1epTZ1isJDnf6b2SpvZZPGrZQ0mWfDjM9lojXv1XDVXh0nOaZq2V9nad9xIQEPXSpPacKRvsGXKdF3fqi35_8_mljORyCVFZzz9vhYG7d_abo/s593/truffaut%20-%20hitchcock.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="443" data-original-width="593" height="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWOZrdVniOKbeJl5Sa7eIedjs3vjuZCNKhQ4ZVpSCvPXeXgfWGKO3fjopcPC6j-rPsqJnk6i-BHCmuvm_1epTZ1isJDnf6b2SpvZZPGrZQ0mWfDjM9lojXv1XDVXh0nOaZq2V9nad9xIQEPXSpPacKRvsGXKdF3fqi35_8_mljORyCVFZzz9vhYG7d_abo/w481-h359/truffaut%20-%20hitchcock.jpg" width="481" /></a></div>Excerpt from page 50 of <a href="https://www.bbcmaestro.com/courses/alan-moore/storytelling" target="_blank">Alan Moore's BBC Maestro Course</a> Notes 1.0, "Part Five: A Variety Of Forms - 24. Screen Gems". </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto"><a href="https://www.bbcmaestro.com/courses/alan-moore/storytelling" target="_blank">Full course:</a> <a href="https://www.bbcmaestro.com/courses/alan-moore/storytelling" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>! <br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b></b></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>HITCHCOCK’S GEMS</b><br /><span style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.bbcmaestro.com/courses/alan-moore/storytelling" target="_blank"><b>Alan Moore</b></a>: </span>Reading <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Truffaut" target="_blank">François Truffaut</a>’s book about <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock" target="_blank">Alfred Hitchcock</a></b> was a revelation for me. He was explaining how Hitchcock achieved his effects in films like <i>Psycho</i>, shot by shot. <br /></div></blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">I remember the scene in <i>Psycho </i>where one of the detectives is suspicious there might be something unusual on the upper floor of the Bates Motel. The first shot is the detective looking up the stairwell, low-angled and looking up, which means that what you are looking up at is placed in a position of power, psychologically. In that instance, the audience’s tension increases because the detective is considering going upstairs but we feel the unknown power because of the way the image is set up. When the detective climbs the stairs it switches to an overhead shot, so that the audience is in the position of power but helpless to intervene. Whatever happens you are trapped looking at it from this position. This is the exact point at which the apparently crazy old lady (which we later find to be Norman Bates himself) comes running out of the landing and stabs the detective to death – while we look on, helplessly.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />The angle at which you look at something will affect the psychological mood of the shot.<br />This is something that I’ve learned a great deal about when it came to writing for comics because it uses the same principles.</div></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"></div>smoky manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12245491210538312718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6127657554856564350.post-91416246946710217322023-11-09T19:26:00.006+01:002023-11-09T19:26:51.237+01:00V by Yildiray Cinar<div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh5Rpy4StH5XpE4bUz9qua0btqDejqyHIOOMm61PTUGKgDh4jtZDYr_dRzdAwz8fov76E0GmLP9tfNYw1g-pIrxoc8u3a-ylCtxbwX-brt0Rn5_ZslIyucYqbw2Em1pHx6ZF36hNnnjWz8Teh_llh6zq0BJOqc6ICaBxZDJaVZngZ_lenLOhs3xvYIxztd/s1117/V.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1117" data-original-width="849" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh5Rpy4StH5XpE4bUz9qua0btqDejqyHIOOMm61PTUGKgDh4jtZDYr_dRzdAwz8fov76E0GmLP9tfNYw1g-pIrxoc8u3a-ylCtxbwX-brt0Rn5_ZslIyucYqbw2Em1pHx6ZF36hNnnjWz8Teh_llh6zq0BJOqc6ICaBxZDJaVZngZ_lenLOhs3xvYIxztd/w486-h640/V.jpg" width="486" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art by <b>Yildiray Cinar</b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Above, a V homage by Turkish comic book artist <a href="https://twitter.com/ycinar" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Yildiray Cinar</span></b></a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">For more info about the artist, visit his <b><a href="https://twitter.com/ycinar" target="_blank">Twitter account</a></b>, <b><a href="https://twitter.com/ycinar" target="_blank">here</a></b>. </div>smoky manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12245491210538312718noreply@blogger.com0