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 and written and performed occult performance art works.

In 2009 he founded the print magazine Dodgem Logic, which he edits.

Recent News

• Moore wrote the short film Jimmy’s End and its prequel Act of Faith. Both are available for free on YouTube.
• Moore has released a new single on Occupy Records. He is also reportedly contributing to the Occupy Comics anthology
• Alan Moore most recent comics works League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 2009 and Fashion Beast, which is actually an adaptation of a screenplay that Moore wrote commissioned by Malcolm McLaren, are out.
• Alan Moore is working on a long novel called Jerusalem. You can read an interview about the book and its progress here or watch Moore read an excerpt from the book here.

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.

Recent Interviews

• Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood

Best Interviews

• Moore on how things went disastrously wrong with the Watchmen movie
• 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.

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

Annotations

• Annotations for Alan Moore comics

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

• Dodgem Logic

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

See Also:

• Robert Anton Wilson
• Grant Morrison

NOTE

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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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