Miracleman is back... in 2014!!!

Art by Alan Davis.

Finally it happened! Yesterday, 12th of October, at the NYCC, Marvel announced that, starting from January 2004, they are going to republish Miracleman in serialized form. Furthermore they will complete the long awaited run written by Neil Gaiman and drawn by Mark Buckingham. 

And, you read it right: it's Miracleman and not Marvelman!

For more details, read here.

"If Marvelman is indeed the Holy Grail of comics, then it is full of piss. Everybody, every two-bit hustler in the comics industry, has emptied their bladder into that particular Holy Grail over the last twenty-five years." [Alan Moore, from Gary Spencer Millidge's Alan Moore: Storyteller]

J.H. Williams III: Alan speaks to us

Art by J. H. Williams III

From the sold-out Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman tribute book (Abiogenesis Press, 2003) which celebrated Moore's 50th birthday.

In the following you can admire the fantastic 2 page contribution written and drawn by the J. H. WILLIAMS III.

More news about J. H. Williams III on his blog: here.

Posted on this blog with the author's permission.

Art by J. H. Williams III

Art by J. H. Williams III

Affable Alan Moore by Lew Stringer

Story and art by Lew Stringer

From page 192 of the sold-out Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman tribute book (Abiogenesis Press, 2003).

In the following you can read the great and amusing contribution realized by artist LEW STRINGER.

Posted on this blog with the author's permission.

More news about LEW STRINGER on his blog: here

Story and art by Lew Stringer

Silk Spectre by Bill Morrison

From page 291 of the sold-out Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman tribute book (Abiogenesis Press, 2003).

Above, you can admire a great Silk Spectre illustration drawn by acclaimed artist BILL MORRISON.

Illustration posted on this blog with the author's permission.

Moore says something about his biography

Above, the Man from Northampton expresses his own opinion about the upcoming biography written by Lance Parkin, out on 7 November 2013.

Alan Moore and... 24 Great Hipsters in History!

Alan Moore nel 1986!

Dodgem Logic was an underground magazine conceived and edited by Alan Moore and published between 2009 and 2011. It lasted for eight issues and each one featured a page - titled Great Hipsters in History - with tree short biographies written by Moore and illustrated by Calluz.

In the following you can find the list of the 24 hipsters suggested by Moore with a link to the related Wikipedia page. Enjoy!

GREAT HIPSTERS IN HISTORY

N. 1: Emma Goldman

N. 2: Alfred Jarry 

N. 3: Paul Robeson

N. 4: Duke Ellington

N. 5: Mary Seacole

N. 6: Lenny Bruce

N. 7: Annie Besant

N. 8: Harry Everett Smith

N. 9: Patti Smith

N. 10: Aldous Huxley

N. 11: Timothy Leary

N. 12: Ken Kesey

N. 13: Sarah Bernhardt

N. 14: Mata Hari

N. 15: Leonora Carrington

N. 16: Austin Osman Spare

N. 17: Colette

N. 18 - Samuel R. Delany

N. 19: Dick Gregory

N. 20: Mary Shelley

N. 21: William Blake

N. 22: Walter Tull

N. 23: Charles Bradlaugh

N. 24: Lucia Joyce

Dr. Manhattan by Bill Sienkiewicz

Art by Bill Sienkiewicz

Above, an amazing Dr. Manhattan sketch by Bill Sienkiewicz, from the artist's files.

The Man of Miracles

Art by Kevin Nowlan

Above a Marvelman sketch commission that Artists' Artist Kevin Nowlan drew for me in 2010.

Alan Moore biography coming soon!

Cover of the upcoming Moore biography.

We talked about it last year but now it's official: this November, in time for Moore's 60th birthday, Aurum Press will release Lance Parkin's Magic Words - The Extraordinary life of Alan Moore.  

I look forward to read it!

More info about the book can be read at Parkin's blog: here.

Kickstarter campaign: "WE'VE HIT OUR GOAL"

His Heavy Heart project is funded!

But the campaign ends the 17th of July, so there is a new goal.

If we can make it to £50k, there's another mini short film that's been written...
*FRANK & NICK MAKE YOU SICK*

Matchbright and Metterton have a strained relationship. It may be a professional one but as we all know, it's also one that crosses boundaries in more way than one. On one particularly drunken evening, they decide to wax lyrical and improv an obscene dialogue which rapidly spirals out of control.
This would be a mini short - it's a simple set up, filmed in Metterton's living room. We never thought we'd make this, but given the opportunity, we'd LOVE to!
 

If we reach £50k, this will be included on the DVD and in the download option.
Let make this happen!

CAST OF 'THE SHOW' (L-R): Khandie Kisses, Andrew Buckley, Darrel D'Silva, Siobbhan Hewlett, Dark Teaser, Alan Moore, Robert Goodman, Luli Blue, Roze Thorn, Boy Kitten, Melinda Gebbie.

UPDATE!!!: We have the sixth film!!!

Alan Moore needs you... on Kickstarter

You probably already know this but... Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins are on Kistarter crowd-funding their fifth short film titled His Heavy Heart and part of the so-called Jimmy's End Cycle. It's the final missing piece of a bigger project which could eventually generate a feature film titled The Show.

Kickstarter campaigns run for 30 days and this will ends July 17. With just 6 days to go, currently the funding reached 35,000 pounds of the 45,000 they need. 

Kickstarter incentives for His Heavy Heart are really appealing, including beermats, t-shirts, artwork, and most attractive of all, the boxed set of the 5 short films with... Alan Moore's, never before seen, original hand-drawn 80 panel storyboard!!!

So... BACK THE PROJECT!

In a recent interview Moore said: "These films are going to be done the way that Mitch and I want to do them or they won’t be done. We’ve got a very hardline approach which might ultimately mean that they don’t get done, you know, but me and Mitch are happy with what we’ve done so far. Everybody’s done a brilliant job and we hope that when people have listened to the music, seen the other films, that they’ll realise that we’re offering a very unusual flavor here and a bit of an unusual art event in that it’s hopefully very accessible. I mean, I don’t think that Jimmy's End comes across as an arthouse film. It’s kind of like weird mainstream cinema."  

 

Article in the NY Post.

Bleeding Cool interview with Moore: HERE.

Salon interview with Moore: HERE.

BACK THE PROJECT!