Alan Moore
Alan Moore is a writer perhaps best known for the groundbreaking comic Watchmen. Other notable works include his novel Voice of the Fire and comics such as V for Vendetta, From Hell, and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Moore is also a practicing magician, of the occult variety. Although he was always interested in the occult from a theoretical perspective it wasn’t until he wrote From Hell that he became interested in it as a practice rather than an academic concern.
Moore has also provided vocals for musical projects with David J from Bauhaus, written and performed occult performance art works and created a series of short films called Jimmy’s End.
A biography titled Magic Words: The Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore by Lance Parkin was recently published by Aurum Press.
Recent News
- Alan Moore’s mentor Steve Moore (no blood relation) passed away in March. In his memory, Mitch Jenkins released Unearthing, a collaboration with Alan Moore about the life of Steve Moore, for free on his website.
- Alan Moore says he’s not the Northampton Clown but that it might be his fault
- I have thoughts about a recent controversy about race and sexual violence in Moore’s work
Free comics by Alan Moore
- American Splendor strip written by Harvey Pekar and drawn by Moore
- Big Numbers # 3 a lost comic by Alan Moore.
- Alan Moore’s 1983 parody of Frank Miller’s Daredevil
Recent Interviews
Best Interviews
- Interview from Wired in 2009
- The Craft interview from Feb 2005.
- More Moore interviews
Documentaries
Monsters, Maniacs, and Moore, a documentary on Moore from 1987.
The Mindscape of Alan Moore is marketed as a documentary, but it’s really more of a long interview. There was also a 10 minute BBC Inside Out episode referred to as a documentary.
Feud With Grant Morrison
- Lengthy video interview with Moore One of the questions is about his feud with Morrison.
- Morrison’s response to the Moore video, along with some additional history from Pádraig Ó Méalóid. Includes a transcript of the relevant parts of the above video.
- Moore’s response in the Last Interview
- Additional analysis of the feud through a comparison of Moore and Morrison’s early Doctor Who stories
Other stuff by Alan Moore
- “March of the Sinister Ducks” song with David J from Bauhaus.
- Lost Alan Moore Essay on Magic Originally intended to appear in KAOS 15
- Summary of Moore’s Twilight of the Superheroes proposal and the proposal itself
- More works by Moore
Criticism
- Laura Snedden on the 10 page rape scene in Neonomicon
- Gail Simone on the attempted rape in Watchmen
- Basebenzi on rape and sexual assault in Moore’s work
- Sexual Ideology in the Works of Alan Moore: Critical Essays on the Graphic Novels
- Pam Noles on race in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (I recommend reading at least Part 2, Part 3 and Part 5.1
- Mombcomics’ response to the “Last Interview”
- Marc Singer on Golliwog and the “Last Interview”
- My response to the “Last Interview”
Annotations
Misc
- The Onion: Barack Obama Names Alan Moore Official White House Biographer (satire)
- PZ Myers on Alan Moore and Magic
- Al Columbia Finally Reveals What Happened to the Big Numbers # 4 Artwork
- More misc. Moore links
Official Sites
Unofficial Sites
- why I love The Master… An archive of out of print work and general ephemera relating to Alan Moore. A must-visit site for any Alan Moore fan.
- Alan Moore Fansite
- Alan Moore interview index exhaustive collection of interviews
- Wikipedia entry on Alan Moore
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NOTE
Most of the links above are internal links for 2 reasons:
1. It means I’ll only have to fix deadlinks in one place
2. In case of deadlinks, the original posts usually have at least an excerpt from the original link, so you’ll at least be able to read something.
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