Graphic novelist AlanMoore recorded in conversation with Charles Shaar Murray at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1987. Moore discusses his work on the weekly comic 2000 AD, his Watchmen... (From the Archival Sounds Blog: Peter Findlay explores our audio resources)
The sheer scale of Damon Albarn's creative output suggests a mild insomnia. I can imagine him now, rolling around in cotton pajamas emblazoned with his initials, wrestling with his sheets and gorilla plush toys while an open Moleskin taunts him from atop the nightstand. In it are furiously scribbled notes like Call back Snoop and Talk to AlanMoore about comics . Double underlined, exclamation...
... Additionally Albarn is working on a Royal Opera House-commissioned "proper" opera with AlanMoore ( Watchmen ), and a trio project with Flea and Tony Allen (last seen with Damon on The Good, The Band & The Queen). And while Blur has decided to let Pavement soak up all that good U.S.-reunion-tour money, at least we'll get this: Continue reading Gorillaz Plastic Beach...
Here are the next five storylines on the countdown, as voted on by you, the readers!! Here is the master list of all storylines featured so far. (NOTE: Again, results now and edit in the details over time on Monday morning) 84 (tie). "Top 10 Season 1" by AlanMoore, Gene Ha and Zander Cannon (Top 10 [...]
... Hot Chili Peppers. And then there is his collaborative " opera " with graphic novelist AlanMoore. As if that wasn't enough, there is that Blur documentary, No Distance Left To Run , being released in January 2010. [ Spin ]
About Me Steve Holland Freelance author and editor for the past 20 years. My interests are old British comics, books and magazines... and that's what you'll find here. YOU CAN CONTACT ME DIRECT AT... You can order my books (and lots of other goodies) via Amazon...Author / Editor of...Loading... Rolling News30 November. AlanMoore has launched the . 30 November. Interview: (Panel Borders...
... the latter two may not last long, as Hollywood roots around for comic books to follow those from AlanMoore and Frank Miller into cinematic life. “Most ‘civilians’ that I talk to about the project still don’t know who Grant Morrison is,” Meaney told Wired.com, “but Moore is definitely a name they recognize, as is Frank Miller. I feel like we could soon be seeing a bunch of...
Albarn explained that his next project will be a collaboration with graphic novelist AlanMoore for the Royal Opera House, plus he is "making an album with Tony Allen and Flea which I've nearly finished, hopefully the end of this year… and I'd like to do another The Good, The Bad & The Queen album if we get the chance, because we’re all really good friends".
... Morrison has been known to do convention sketches of many different Marvel and DC characters. AlanMoore has drawn comics . Our sketchbook includes a drawing of Sandman by Neil Gaiman . Doubtless many more — add to the list! But anyway, who drew that piece? It isn’t Paul Levitz or Scott himself.
... of the lightheartedness of the later TV show. It almost reminds me of a reverse Watchmen. AlanMoore took the comic book genre, which oft-presented characters in a squeaky clean way, though implicitly had subversive messages underneath and Moore made the implicit, explicit, graphically so. The result was comic book characters who illustrated depraved, warts and all human nature....
“So, Alan, what are you rebelling against'” “What have you got'” AlanMoore has launched a web site for his bimonthly underground magazine, Dodgem Logic. If you click here, you’ll see a brief feature with Moore discussing his motivations behind launching the magazine, which proudly proclaims its mission is “colliding ideas to see what...
... include a post-Monkey Royal Opera House-commissioned "proper" opera with Watchmen's AlanMoore, and a trio with the Chili's Flea and the Good, the Bad and the Queen's Tony Allen.) Here are some of the things he said in a conversation that lasted 57 minutes and which, among other things, roughly summed up his antipathy toward the very idea of summing up even as he gallantly...
... American markets, a problem that would impact adults as much as they would children.Certainly, AlanMoore has touched on this topic with his Watchmen, but what exactly made comic books exclusively for children? Perhaps it was when the world began demanding that comics have nothing but clean, healthy stories is when adults began losing interest in it all. Then, it would seem that when...
... of the lightheartedness of the later TV show. It almost reminds me of a reverse Watchmen. AlanMoore took the comic book genre, which oft-presented characters in a squeaky clean way, though implicitly had subversive messages underneath and Moore made the implicit, explicit, graphically so. The result was comic book characters who illustrated depraved, warts and all human nature....