Game of Thrones and Watchmen

In an interview published on Vulture site, Isaac Hempstead Wright who plays Bran Stark in Game of Thrones, talks about his role and... Watchmen's influence.

The complete interview is available HERE.

Hempstead-Wright: "[...] It was a really challenging thing to do this season. I had a meeting with David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss], our showrunners, before we started filming. We had a chat about how we wanted to play Bran this season, and they suggested Doctor Manhattan from the Watchmen comic. Bran was slightly based on that, existing in all these different times at once, knowing all these various things, being this emotionless rock connecting these different timelines and the history of the universe. We wanted that, but we didn’t want a boring, monotonous character who would just go, “Yeah, I’m the Three-Eyed Raven, blah blah blah.” [...]

We also wanted to make sure that there was a bit of Bran left, a glimmer of a person still in there. It’s like he’s the first cyborg. We just connected a supercomputer to a human being’s brain. He’s a mainframe, but there’s a little bit of his personality. More often than not, though, Bran is a vessel for human knowledge."

The complete interview is available HERE.

Double Magical Moore by Gianluca Pagliarani

Art by Gianluca Pagliarani.

Above and below, two stunning and magical Moore portraits drawn by Italian comic book artist GIANLUCA PAGLIARANI. 

Pagliarani is a regular contributor to fantasy series Dragonero (published in Italy by Sergio Bonelli Editore); in the past he worked for Avatar Press drawing Aetheric Mechanics and Ignition City, both stories written by Warren Ellis. He is also the artist and co-creator of The Shadow Planet, a comic book that mixes retro science fiction with Lovecraftian horror.

More about Pagliarani at his blog: HERE.

Art by Gianluca Pagliarani.

The Show in the making

Art by Paul Chessell.

Today Mitch Jenkins has launched The Show official site on Instagram: "Official site for Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins' new feature film, The Show. Regular updates now that the film is fully funded and in pre-production."

In his first post Jenkins announced: "Me and Alan start our new adventure as of now. It seems the bloody feature film has been fully funded. We will be posting everything Alan / Mitch and The Show here most days." 

Are you ready?

Dans la tête d'Alan Moore

Alan Moore

An awesome video interview with Alan Moore has been posted on the European Culture Channel ARTE.

The 8-part video interview is available HERE.

Rorschach by J.G. Jones

Art by J.G. Jones.

Above, a gorgeous and ruminative Rorschach drawn by the excellent J.G. Jones.

Chester Brown on Alan Moore and Watchmen

Watchmen n.3. Cover art by Dave Gibbons.

Excerpt from The Comics Journal n. 135 (April 1990). The complete interview is available here.

SCOTT GRAMMEL: CBG has pointed out as proof of comics’ maturity that we have hardcover collections of Watchmen and Dark Knight, and paperback collections of Chaykin’s Shadow, and the like. I’m wondering if you find any worth in the current vogue for high-gloss superheroes.

CHESTER BROWN: I like some of it. I like Alan Moore’s stuff. He’s a good writer, and I’m glad he’s moved beyond that stage, that he’s doing his own stuff now. But I read Watchmen and enjoyed it.

GRAMMEL: Do you think it proved that comics are art?

BROWN: I don’t think he proved it. I mean, wasn’t it proved before him?

GRAMMEL: But it’s now being taught in university classes. Didn’t you see that in CBG? [Laughter.] Which only goes to show that they’ll have classes in everything.

BROWN: Yeah, I know.

GRAMMEL: What did you think of the art in Watchmen?

BROWN: I liked it. Dave Gibbons is talented. He draws well.

GRAMMEL: Didn’t you feel claustrophobic reading it? It was so tight.

BROWN: No, I liked it fine.

The complete interview is available here.

Silk Spectre by David Roach

Art by David Roach.

Above, a gorgeous Silk Spectre portrayed by British comic book artist and writer David Roach.

1963 ashcans

Above and below, covers of the limited edition 1963 Alan Moore/Stephen R. Bissette IMAGE COMICS ASHCAN PREVIEW: THE FEARLESS FURY and IMAGE COMICS ASHCAN PREVIEW: THE UNBELIEVABLE N-MAN!
 

These ‘ashcan’ previews of then-forthcoming Image Comics series 1963 by Alan Moore, Rick Veitch, Stephen R. Bissette and friends were printed in limited quantities of 2500 copies each; produced and published by Moondog Comics. They're each 26 pages, feature bonus character design artwork and notes on the Fury and N-Man's creation.

Super Moore by Lorenzo Palloni

Art by Lorenzo Palloni.

Above, an inspired portrait of Alan Moore drawn by Italian comic book golden boy, artist and writer LORENZO PALLONI.

For more info about Lorenzo Palloni: blog - Mammaiuto

Alan Moore by Massimo Giacon

Art by MASSIMO GIACON.

Above, a stunning Alan Moore portrait by Italian Renaissance man, comic book artist, musician, painter, performer and designer MASSIMO GIACON.

More information about the artist can be found at his website, HERE.

Grazie, Massimo! ❤

Alan Moore and... the Brexit Poem

Alan Moore by Glyn Ackroyd.

Excerpt from a letter - dated 2 February 2017 - written by Alan Moore to comedian Stewart Lee in the series of correspondence in the Longplayer Letters.

 

Alan Moore: [...] I’d like to leave you with the ‘Brexit Poem’ that I jotted down in an idle moment a month or two ago:

“I wrote this verse the moment that I heard/ the good news that we’d got our language back/ whence I, in a misjudged racial attack,/ kicked out French, German and Italian words/ and then I” [...] 

The complete letter is available HERE.