Alan Moore by Armando Rossi

Art by Armando Rossi.

Above, a dark and psychedelic Alan Moore portrait by Italian comic book artist, illustrator and painter ARMANDO ROSSI.

From Rossi's Official Facebook page: "I have been working professionally as a comic artist for over 15 years for national and international publishers and I consider myself a storyteller. All my works are tales I wish to tell. That’s why I depict people, in all their moods and frames of mind. Because everyone represents a unique story. My repertoire of media includes pencil and china ink drawings and paintings in acrylics or oil on canvas or on board."

For more info about Armando Rossi: Website - Facebook

Alan Moore by Dany&Dany

Art by Dany&Dany.

Above, a magnetic Alan Moore amazingly portrayed by DANY&DANY. 

Dany&Dany (Daniela Orrù and Daniela Serri) are an Italian comic creator studio, active since 2002. Their books are published in Italy, US, Germany and Spain, in both printed and digital format.

For more info about Dany&Dany: Facebook - Blog.

Alan Moore by Massimo Perissinotto

Art by Massimo Perissinotto.

Above, a powerful and irate Alan Moore drawn by Italian comic book artist, writer, essayist, horror movie connoisseur and everything "indie" (and much more) MASSIMO PERISSINOTTO.

For more info about Massimo Perissinotto: his Facebook page.

Alan Moore by Teresa Ennas

Art by Teresa Ennas.

Above, a stylish Alan Moore portrait drawn by TERESA ENNAS, an Italian-German artist based in Germany.

For more info about Teresa Ennas:

Facebook - Instagram - Tumblr - Twitter

Alan Moore by Manuelle Z. Mureddu

Art by Manuelle Z. Mureddu.

Above, an intense and solemn portrait of Alan Moore by Sardinian comic book artist and illustrator MANUELLE Z. MUREDDU.
The black and white version of this same illustration is available here.
(Thank you, Manuelle!) 

For more info about Manuelle Z. Mureddu visit his Official FB Page. 

Happy 63, Alan! by Onofrio Catacchio

Art by Onofrio Catacchio.

Above, an amazing portrait by Italian well-known comic book artist ONOFRIO CATACCHIO realized specifically on the occasion of Moore's 63th birthday!

Best wishes to the Bearded One! "He is a Scorpio boy!"

You can visit Onofrio Catacchio website here. 

(Thank you Onofrio!)

Jay Stephens: ABC and Alan Moore

Art by Jay Stephens.

Above an illustration by Canadian cartoonist JAY STEPHENS featuring several characters from Alan Moore's America's Best Comics; also below a short homage text by Stephens.
The pieces were both published in May 2001 on Ultrazine.org special dedicated to Moore. 

       I was fifteen years old when WATCHMEN hit comics like an ice age. Now there would always be a before and an after. By that time, my friends and I had graduated to reading Love and Rockets, Mr.X, and Yummy Fur, but we still managed to find time for our old favourites, the superheroes. Suddenly, we were struck by a single comic that gave it to us all at once. The comic that blew up the genre. WATCHMEN.
    
In hindsight it's no longer my favourite work of Alan Moore's (though it still holds up very well). Anybody with a sharp knife can cut something to pieces. Elegantly, meticulously, it doesn't ultimately make a difference. Diced is diced. A good surgeon, however, learns to use a sharp knife with great skill to repair and heal. To build instead of destroy. It is the fantastic surgical skill that Mr. Moore has displayed recently that so impresses me.
       
FROM HELL is a stitched together work of art the likes of which comics had yet to behold, and the incredible ABC books... who among us had NOT uttered the phrase " It's all been done.", in connection to superheroes? Proven wrong again by one of the medium true masters.
He's no longer tinkering with the bowels of corpses, but constructing strange, new Prometheans that walk and breathe with life of their own. And it is a thing of wonder to behold.
       
Thank you Alan Moore.

Jay Stephens
[December 2000]

Alan Moore Simpsonized

Alan Moore Simpsonized by Mike Iverson.

In 2007 Alan Moore appeared in Husbands and Knives, the seventh episode of The Simpsons' nineteenth season (Art Spiegelman and Dan Clowes were the other guests).

Some days ago, artist Mike Iverson published on his Blind Squirrel Props site the action figure he created and related kit reproducing Alan Moore in amazing 3D Simpsons' style! 

 Making-of HERE; the Alan Moore Simpsonized kit HERE!

 

The Sopranos, The Simpsons and South Park

Excerpt from an interview published in Wizard magazine N. 130, July 2002

What about American television?
Alan Moore: "The Sopranos" is the best thing that's come out of American television that I can remember. Most television I can't stand it... I don't watch hardly any television at all. Sort of "Ally McBeal", "Frasier", "Buffy the vampire Slayer", "Dr. Who", "Star Trek", "Babylon 5" --- all of this stuff I just cannot be bothered with it. "The Sopranos" on the other hand is actually well-written. It gas wonderful characterization. The episodes, for the most part, are incredibly well-directed. I think over these three seasons, the standard has been maintained wonderfully. Since "Twin Peaks", it's the first American dramatic show that I've enjoyed. That's not to say I haven't enjoyed "The Simpsons" or "South Park" or some of the generally very, very good American cartoon shows.

I wouldn't have associated you with "The Simpsons" or "South Park".
Alan Moore: Oh well, you know it's not all gloom and doom at Moore Mansion [chuckles]. I think "The Simpsons" is very good because it is kept at a wonderful standard of craft and comedy for a very, very ling time. And it is subversive. I think sometimes because it has been around for so long, we forget how subversive [it is]. "South Park", I've got to say, my hat's off to them as well. I mean, considering it is mainly fart jokes and sort of gay jokes and all the rest of it. I think they manage to really push the line quite seriously for American television. They take the stories into all of these really uncomfortable areas. You're certain they're not going to be able to get away without severely embarrassing themselves, but they do.

Alan Moore and... Timothy Leary’s shin

Timothy Leary

Excerpt from the amazing "Ode to the Eternalist" interview conducted by David Erdos and published on International Times site. The complete piece is available HERE.

Alan Moore: Hey, did I tell you, I’ve actually got a bit of Timothy Leary on my altar at home?
David Erdos: Really? Which bit?
Alan Moore: Its actually a small part of his shin. Apparently, some of his ashes were blasted into space, by which we mean blasted into Nevada, because most of those things don’t have enough escape velocity,so they tend to end up in the desert. But some of the remaining ashes were given to friends including Brian Barrett who wrote ‘Whisper’ and who was told to scatter them on Stonehenge and allow anyone who caught them to give them to anyone who they thought deserved them. My friend John Higgs was there for the ceremony and at the end he noticed a tiny flake of bone left on the altar, so he gave it to me in this little reliquary and I put it on my altar. And so I asked my ‘gentleman supplier,’ ‘Do people actually do acid these days?’ I’m not sure I want to do any myself but I wanted to know and he came through with two little sugar cubes, so I put them in the reliquary with Tim, because I think that’s what Tim would have wanted! And if I ever do get round to taking the acid I’m sure it will be infused with the spirit of the counter culture in its purest form!

The complete interview can be read HERE.

Essential Alan Moore interview about Jerusalem (and more)

Alan Moore. Photo by Dominic Wells.

Excerpts from the excellent interview conducted by Dominic Wells. You can read it HERE.

 

[1986]

Alan Moore: “It’s about time people stopped debating whether comics are art [...] and just get on with making good art.”

[2002]

Alan Moore: “This planet has a physical geography with which we have already familiarised ourselves [...] But since the dawn of the first stories, there is a fictional geography, where the gods and demons live. We have created this big imaginary planet that is a counterpart to our own; and in some cases these places are more familiar to us than the real ones.”

[afternoon of July 9, 2016]

Talking about Jerusalem.  

Alan Moore: “Nearly everything is historical fact. [...] I’d take all the angels and demons with a pinch of salt. A lot of it is actually 100 per cent materially true, but I think all of it is emotionally true. And also we are not just our bricks and mortar, we are not just our flesh and blood, we are not just our material components. Everything in our world has got an imaginary component. As individuals, we’re always telling people the legend of us. The same goes for our houses, our streets, our towns, our country – there is a huge imaginary component to human life and if in the interests of scientific realism you ignore that, you are not describing reality.”

Discussing V for Vendetta mask adopted by both the Occupy and Anonymous movements. 

Alan Moore: “I’m glad that they’ve got it, although – they didn’t get it from the comic, did they? They got it from the film, which I have never seen and which, from a position of complete ignorance, I am willing to describe as a total rat’s abortion. But I’m glad it’s been of use to these protestors, because generally I really admire what they do.”

[6pm, July 9, 2016]

Alan Moore: "[Jerusalem] is dedicated to Audrey. The whole book was an attempt… an attempt to rescue her? A particularly futile and belated attempt, but the best I could do. The only way that I could rescue her was in a fiction.”

The complete interview can be can read HERE.