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"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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Some info about ALAN MOORE's second book in the Long London series! To be released in 2026.
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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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Alan is always a pleasure to listen to.
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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."
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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«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.
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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"[...] 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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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
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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