Alan Moore vs Stan Lee

Illustration by AKAB.

[...] Moore went on to explain that while he shouldn’t say unpleasant things about an elderly man whose work he used to admire, he detests Stan Lee - and that back in the day "there was a reason why 'Jolly' Jack Kirby wasn’t always jolly, why 'Sturdy' Steve Ditko wasn't always sturdy, and why 'Smiling' Stan Lee was always smiling."

More info and the original video from the NICE Convention can be found HERE.

Alan Moore... football player

Art by Gary Spencer Millidge

Above, the card drawn by Gary Spencer Millidge for "Deck of Cards II", in aid of ChildLine, realized for the Bristol Comics Festival 2003. Below, you can see the original piece.

Posted on this blog with the author's permission.

Art by Gary Spencer Millidge

Sergio Toppi and Alan Moore

Above, you can admire a spectacularly intense portrait of Moore drawn by Italian comics Legend SERGIO TOPPI.

From Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman (Abiogenesis Press, 2003), page 70. The illustration was also used as cover for the Italian edition (published by Black Velvet Editrice).

Toppi would would have turned 80 years old today. Happy birthday, Master!

Daniel Acuña and the Spanish Supremacy

Art by Daniel Acuña

In 2004, Daniel Acuña drew some covers for the Spanish edition of Supreme, published by Dolmen Editorial. See the image above and the one below.
More can be found at Acuña's blog.

Art by Daniel Acuña

Alan Moore goes to... PROVIDENCE!

The 22th of September 2012, during the first N.I.C.E. convention, Alan Moore announced his new comics project to be published by Avatar Press, PROVIDENCE, a sequel of Neonomicon. 

It will be a 10 part series, set in 1919, featuring Lovecraft himself as a character and exploring the inspiration behind the horrific mythology he created.

The series' illustrator has not been officially announced yet but it's highly probable it will be Neonomicon artist, Jacen Burrows.

See and listen Moore talking about Providence in the video below.

Alan Moore action figure

An Alan Moore Custom Action Figure!

For extra info and pictures click HERE.

AM Portrait: Rorschach and Ladytron

Art by Stefano Raffaele

From Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman: Rorschach (plus Alan Moore, above) and Ladytron (plus Moore and some elements from V for Vendetta and Watchmen, below). Respectively from page 172 and page 238 of the sold-out book I co-edited with Gary Spencer Millidge in 2003.
Both illustrations have been drawn by acclaimed Italian artist STEFANO RAFFAELE and posted on this blog with the artist's permission. Raffaele has worked for the most important Italian, American and French comics publishing houses. In recent years he has often collaborated with writer Christophe Bec on series like Pandemonium, Sarah and Under. He also wrote and drew the horror-romance Fragile.

Art by Stefano Raffaele

AM Portrait: smoke circles

Art by Rich Johnston

From Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman, page 74 of the sold-out volume published in 2003 by Abiogenesis Press.
A 1page comics by RICH JOHNSTON, one of the most well-known comics reporters on the Internet and the man currently behind the popular site BleedingCool.com. He also writes comics and... he can draw, too! 

The page has been posted on this blog with the author's permission.

Nemo goes to the South Pole

Art by Kevin O'Neill

A new adventure set in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen's Universe is coming in February 2013. A one shot self-contained episode starring the "new" Capitain Nemo, titled Nemo: Heart of Ice, which ventures into the terrible polar territories and in the same fictional domains imagined by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft.

"Captain Nemo’s daughter and successor plans to take her feared and celebrated black submersible back to the world’s South Pole in an attempt to lay her sire’s intimidating ghost forever."

More can be read here.

Jack the Ripper... is coming back!

Art by Eddie Campbell

In March 2013, Top Shelf will publish From Hell Companion, a 288 page volume put together by Eddie Campbell with never-before-seen sketches, scripts, photos and anecdotes from the making-of the graphic novel. A book that promises to be the likes of which we haven’t seen before

A bit more can be read here.

AM Portrait: Marvelman and Tom Strong

Art by Carmine Di Giandomenico

From Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman: Marvelman (above) and Tom Strong (below). Respectively from page 139 and page 286 of the sold-out volume published in 2003 by Abiogenesis Press.

Both illustrations drawn by the great Italian artist CARMINE DI GIANDOMENICO. Posted on this blog with the artist's permission.

Art by Carmine Di Giandomenico

Carmine Di Giandomenico is a well-known and appreciated Italian comics artist and writer. His career started in the mid 90s and since then he has worked for several Italian, French and United States comics publishing companies. In recent years, he started his collaboration with Marvel Comics drawing many of their iconic characters. In 2007 he wrote (with assistance by writer Zeb Wells) and drew the mini-series Daredevil: Battlin' Jack, a key story in the long-running continuity of Matt Murdock. Currently he is at work on a new Punisher limited series.