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Alan Moore 72!
Alan Moore 72 by Massimo Giacon
Art by Massimo Giacon In this special day, last but not least... an exclusive new portrait of our beloved birthday boy by the terrific MAS...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Alan Moore 72!
"Comics combine the best of novels and films in that they have an engaging, involving visual track, but are capable of greater density than a film." A. Moore 1987
Business of education and the perfect art form
Excerpts from The Face n.91, November 1987 . A gorgeous George Michael was on the cover. We were in the midst of the Watchmen phenomenon, ...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"Comics combine the best of novels and films in that they have an engaging, involving visual track, but are capable of greater density than a film." A. Moore 1987
Alan Moore, 1989: "My feelings upon censorship are that it is wrong, full stop. It is a thing which I utterly oppose. I believe that there is nothing in this world that is unsayable. It is not information which is dangerous; it is the lack of information which is dangerous."
On censorship, Rambo and the evils of the world
Below, excerpt from Comics Scene n.7, 1989. I think it's a really important piece that resonates even to the present day. Alan Moore: My f...
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October 27, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Alan Moore, 1989: "My feelings upon censorship are that it is wrong, full stop. It is a thing which I utterly oppose. I believe that there is nothing in this world that is unsayable. It is not information which is dangerous; it is the lack of information which is dangerous."
How do you rate Alan Moore's talent?
Alan Davis, 1985: "As a writer, very highly. Apart from his inventive use of words and dialogue, he can think laterally and see old situations from new angles."
Alan Davis, 1985: "As a writer, very highly. Apart from his inventive use of words and dialogue, he can think laterally and see old situations from new angles."
Alan Davis 1985: Cap. Britain, Marvelman, The Fury
Above, selected excerpts from an interview with ALAN DAVIS , conducted by Les Chester the 26th of September 1985, published in Amazing Heroe...
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October 22, 2025 at 7:04 AM
How do you rate Alan Moore's talent?
Alan Davis, 1985: "As a writer, very highly. Apart from his inventive use of words and dialogue, he can think laterally and see old situations from new angles."
Alan Davis, 1985: "As a writer, very highly. Apart from his inventive use of words and dialogue, he can think laterally and see old situations from new angles."
"There has never been an American billionaire who has been traumatised as a child and has decided to go out and fight crime and defend people dressed as a giant bat." - Alan Moore
TGW, comics and... mass infantilisation
Transcript excerpts of an audio interview from BBC Front Row program , conduced by Samira Ahmed. The episode, on air the 15th of Septembe...
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September 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
"There has never been an American billionaire who has been traumatised as a child and has decided to go out and fight crime and defend people dressed as a giant bat." - Alan Moore
Some info about ALAN MOORE's second book in the Long London series! To be released in 2026.
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September 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Some info about ALAN MOORE's second book in the Long London series! To be released in 2026.
"What we are trying to do is reinterpret the idea of a god amongst people, which is basically what the idea oi the super-hero is, even though the original idea has been diluted."
Miracleman and a democratic art-form
Excerpts from Amazing Heroes Preview Special n.2, published by Fantagraphics in 1986. At the time Eclipse was publishing Miracleman , repri...
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September 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"What we are trying to do is reinterpret the idea of a god amongst people, which is basically what the idea oi the super-hero is, even though the original idea has been diluted."
"the series itself was an honest attempt to portray the occult, not as something performed mainly in spandex costumes, but as something which happens on ordinary streets with ordinary people in ordinary clothes."
Nightjar: Urban approach to the supernatural
Excerpts from an Untold Tales article by Scott Braden published in Overstreet's Fan n.21, March 1997. The piece investigated the Nightjar s...
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August 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
"the series itself was an honest attempt to portray the occult, not as something performed mainly in spandex costumes, but as something which happens on ordinary streets with ordinary people in ordinary clothes."
"I guess that I was influenced the most stylistically by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Eisner. […] Those two are right up there at the top. Those are the two main gods in my comic book writers' Pantheon." Alan Moore, 1997
Kurtzman, Eisner and American comics
Excerpts from an article titled "The British and Scottish and Irish Invasion " published in Overstreet's FAN n.20, released in February 19...
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August 22, 2025 at 9:22 AM
"I guess that I was influenced the most stylistically by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Eisner. […] Those two are right up there at the top. Those are the two main gods in my comic book writers' Pantheon." Alan Moore, 1997
"They're not aimed at me, as an audience. They're not aimed at a 40 year old, quasi-intellectual, they're aimed at a 14 year old male audience, that's fair enough."
Image Days
Excerpts from an interview focused on the Spawn/WildC.A.T.S. crossover published by Image with art by Scott Clark in January 1996. The inte...
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August 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"They're not aimed at me, as an audience. They're not aimed at a 40 year old, quasi-intellectual, they're aimed at a 14 year old male audience, that's fair enough."
The Amazing B. Catling!
The Great Mystery of Brian Catling
In July, Swan River Press published a collection of Brian Catling 's stories entitled A Mystery of Remnant and Other Absences , co-edited b...
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August 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The Amazing B. Catling!
"Readers of Alan's other books may note that some of the imagery in the first eleven pages matches the symbolism that appears in the journey up the Tree of Life in Promethea. I don't think this was deliberate, more a result of the way that Alan imagines these spheres."
On Magical Landscapes and The Spirit Guide
The twelfth episode in my series of articles about The Bumper Book is online on the Italian web-magazine (Quasi) . It contains behind the ...
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July 22, 2025 at 8:28 AM
"Readers of Alan's other books may note that some of the imagery in the first eleven pages matches the symbolism that appears in the journey up the Tree of Life in Promethea. I don't think this was deliberate, more a result of the way that Alan imagines these spheres."
Spanish Moore(s)!
Alan Moore by Manu Gutiérrez
Art by Gutiérrez Above, an amazing portrait of our Bearded Magus by Spanish artist Manu Gutiérrez . The image has been used as cover for Ro...
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July 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Spanish Moore(s)!
Rings and the fantastic Arthur mag!
Knuckle rings
Art by LRNZ Below, final question from a fantastic interview included in the great Arthur No. 4 (May 2003) . You can read the complete inte...
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July 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Rings and the fantastic Arthur mag!
"In The View From Canons Park": Alan Moore on ARTHUR MACHEN!
Faunus n.51: Alan Moore on Machen
Alan Moore contributed essay about his Long London series and... Arthur Machen to Faunus n. 51 . Faunus is the literary journal of The ...
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July 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
"In The View From Canons Park": Alan Moore on ARTHUR MACHEN!
More Alan Moore Lovecraft stories? Fhtagn!
Yuggoth: unpublished Lovecraftian tales
Art by Enrique Breccia . Not related. There had been rumors in the past, but few weeks ago the topic resurfaced, on Reddit . But let us take...
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June 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
More Alan Moore Lovecraft stories? Fhtagn!
John Coulthart talks about Moores' Bumper Book of Magic!
"I did make a jokey comment to the publishers about a future special edition in an iridescent perspex box with ceremonial robes and so on."
"I did make a jokey comment to the publishers about a future special edition in an iridescent perspex box with ceremonial robes and so on."
The Soul, Tarot and an iridescent perspex box
The eleventh episode in my ongoing series of articles about The Bumper Book has been posted on the Italian web-magazine (Quasi) today. It'...
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June 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
John Coulthart talks about Moores' Bumper Book of Magic!
"I did make a jokey comment to the publishers about a future special edition in an iridescent perspex box with ceremonial robes and so on."
"I did make a jokey comment to the publishers about a future special edition in an iridescent perspex box with ceremonial robes and so on."
«Per il mago praticante, i Tarocchi sono uno strumento prezioso e di vasta applicazione. [...] un ottimo modo per familiarizzare con il vasto territorio dell’occulto e, al contempo, padroneggiare la capacità magica della divinazione.»
Il viaggio continua! In compagnia di Alan & Steve Moore & Co.
Il viaggio continua! In compagnia di Alan & Steve Moore & Co.
The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic: 10 Parole parole, la Luna, i Tarocchi - (Quasi)
Intro 1. Se non l’avete ancora fatto, correte a leggere la lunga intervista esclusiva che los tres amigos (ovvero Omar...
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May 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
«Per il mago praticante, i Tarocchi sono uno strumento prezioso e di vasta applicazione. [...] un ottimo modo per familiarizzare con il vasto territorio dell’occulto e, al contempo, padroneggiare la capacità magica della divinazione.»
Il viaggio continua! In compagnia di Alan & Steve Moore & Co.
Il viaggio continua! In compagnia di Alan & Steve Moore & Co.
"[...] temo che il mondo si trovi inevitabilmente davanti a un periodo cupo e la speranza è che possiamo sopravvivere e poi costruire qualcosa di meglio." Alan Moore
THE MAGUS IS IN! - (Quasi)
L’Altra Londra, il potere della Magia e il futuro dell’Umanità Una chiacchierata con ALAN MOORE a cura di smoky man...
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May 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
"[...] temo che il mondo si trovi inevitabilmente davanti a un periodo cupo e la speranza è che possiamo sopravvivere e poi costruire qualcosa di meglio." Alan Moore
Excerpt from an long interview with Alan Moore that I posted few days ago on my blog.
"Magic is not something to materially assist you in your life. Rather, it is something to dedicate that life to, without lust of material result." AM
"Magic is not something to materially assist you in your life. Rather, it is something to dedicate that life to, without lust of material result." AM
Long London, Magic & the future of Humanity
Detail from a portrait by Francesca Ciregia . Omar, Francesco & I are really, really excited & honoured to present an exclusive interview w...
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May 15, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Excerpt from an long interview with Alan Moore that I posted few days ago on my blog.
"Magic is not something to materially assist you in your life. Rather, it is something to dedicate that life to, without lust of material result." AM
"Magic is not something to materially assist you in your life. Rather, it is something to dedicate that life to, without lust of material result." AM