Authors: Alan Moore

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Alan Moore
Born: 18 November 1953
Northampton, England, UK









Alan Moore is the guy sitting at the back of the pub with a big bushy beard, wearing a black T-shirt with the arms cut off and silver rings on all of his fingers. He talks in a thick Northamptonshire brogue about "magic, puppet snake gods, the evil of corporate comic book publishers and how someday soon our culture will turn to steam." He seems like someone you should avoid. But. If you sat down to talk to him - and passed muster - you'd soon find that he's pretty funny, extremely well-read and knows how to write comic books real good. Also prone to saying cool things like: "If you live in a place you think is a shithole, eventually you'll think of yourself as a shit. If you find the stories in the place, the fables, eventually you'll feel pretty fabulous." And: "I’ve always seen my art in whatever form, in some degree, as propaganda, not for a nation state but propaganda for a state of mind." And also: "Art shouldn’t be a sedative. It shouldn’t be too make us feel better about the dismal circumstances in which we’re being forced to live. Art should be a stimulant, it should be a psychedelic, it should be something that generally opens the mind, which gives you information that you hadn’t had before, and gives you different possibilities for how to interact with the world. And so I’d say, that is probably my agenda."

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Links: The Art of Dismantling Interview, The comedian Stewart Lee interviews Alan Moore, The Mindscape of Alan Moore: A 2003 feature documentary, Annotations for Alan Moore Comic Books, A Trout In The Milk: Interview With A Figment, Part V, Comic Book Grrrl Interview, Alan Moore LiveJounal.

Selected works: The Complete Future Shocks, Skizz, D.R. and Quinch, The Ballad of Halo Jones, V for Vendetta, Swamp Thing, DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore, Watchmen, A Small Killing, From Hell, Supreme, Tom Strong, Top 10, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Promethea, Top 10: The Forty-Niners, Smax, Alan Moore's The Courtyard, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century, Neonomicon.

All comments welcome.