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Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an england-cool author known primarily for his work in comic books including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Ballad of Halo Jones, Swamp Thing, Batman: The Killing Joke, and From Hell. He is widely recognised among his peers and critics as one of the best comic book writers in the English language. Moore has occasionally used such pseudonyms as Curt Vile, Jill de Ray, Brilburn Logue, and Translucia Baboon; also, reprints of some of his work have been credited to The Original Writer when Moore requested that his name be removed.

Moore started writing for British underground and alternative fanzines in the late 1970s before achieving success publishing comic strips in such magazines as 2000 AD and Warrior. He was subsequently picked up by DC Comics as "the first comics writer living in Britain to do prominent work in America", where he worked on major characters such as Batman (Batman: The Killing Joke) and Superman ("Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?"), substantially developed the character Swamp Thing, and penned original titles such as Watchmen. During that decade, Moore helped to bring about greater social respectability for comics in the United States and United Kingdom.  He prefers the term "comic" to "graphic novel". In the late 1980s and early 1990s he left the comic industry mainstream and went independent for a while, working on experimental work such as the epic From Hell and the prose novel Voice of the Fire. He subsequently returned to the mainstream later in the 1990s, working for Image Comics, before developing America's Best Comics, an imprint through which he published works such as The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and the occult-based Promethea. In 2016, he published Jerusalem: a 1,266-page experimental novel set in his hometown of Northampton, UK.

Moore is an occultist, ceremonial magician, and anarchist, and has featured such themes in works including Promethea, From Hell, and V for Vendetta, as well as performing avant-garde spoken word occult "workings" with The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some of which have been released on CD.

Despite his objections, Moore's works have provided the basis for several Hollywood films, including From Hell (2001), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), V for Vendetta (2005), and Watchmen (2009). Moore has also been referenced in popular culture and has been recognised as an influence on a variety of literary and television figures. He has lived a significant portion of his life in Northampton, England, and he has said in various interviews that his stories draw heavily from his experiences living there.

Early life to Success with Warrior

Moore was born on 18 November 1953, at St Edmund's Hospital in Northampton to a working-class family who he believed had lived in the town for several generations. He grew up in a part of Northampton known as The Boroughs, a poverty-stricken area with a lack of facilities and high levels of illiteracy, but he nonetheless "loved it. I loved the people. I loved the community and ... I didn't know that there was anything else."

He lived in a house with his parents, brewery worker Ernest Moore and printer Sylvia Doreen, with his younger brother Mike, and with his maternal grandmother. He "read omnivorously" from the age of five, getting books out of the local library, and subsequently attended Spring Lane Primary School.

At the same time, he began reading comic strips, initially in British comics, such as Topper and The Beezer, but eventually also American imports such as The Flash, Detective Comics, Fantastic Four, and Blackhawk.

In the late 1960s, Moore began publishing his poetry and essays in fanzines, eventually setting up his fanzine, Embryo. Through Embryo, Moore became involved in a group known as the Northampton Arts Lab. The Arts Lab subsequently made significant contributions to the magazine

Abandoning his office job, he decided to instead take up both writing and illustrating his own comics. He had already produced a couple of strips for several alternative fanzines and magazines, such as Anon E. Mouse for the local paper Anon, and St. Pancras Panda, a parody of Paddington Bear, for the Oxford-based Back Street Bugle.

His first paid work was for a few drawings that were printed in NME. In late 1979/early 1980, he and his friend, comic-book writer Steve Moore co-created the violent cyborg character Axel Pressbutton for some comics in Dark Star, a British music magazine. Not long afterward, Alan Moore succeeded in getting an underground comix-type series about a private detective known as Roscoe Moscow published in the weekly music magazine Sounds, earning £35 a week.

Beginning in 1979 Moore created a new comic strip known as Maxwell the Magic Cat in the Northants Post under the pseudonym of Jill de Ray. Moore has stated that he would have been happy to continue Maxwell's adventures almost indefinitely but ended the strip after the newspaper ran a negative editorial on the place of homosexuals in the community

Interested in writing for 2000 AD, one of Britain's most prominent comic magazines, Alan Moore then submitted a script for their long-running and successful series Judge Dredd. While having no need for another writer on Judge Dredd, which was already being written by John Wagner, fellow writer Alan Grant saw promise in Moore's work – later remarking that "this guy's a really fucking good writer" – and instead asked him to write some short stories for the publication's Future Shocks series. Meanwhile, Moore had also begun writing minor stories for Doctor Who Weekly.

From 1980 through to 1986, Moore maintained his status as a freelance writer and was offered a spate of work by a variety of comic book companies in Britain, mainly Marvel UK, and the publishers of 2000 AD and Warrior. During this period, 2000 AD accepted and published over fifty of Moore's one-off stories for their Future Shocks and Time Twisters science fiction series.

Moore was given two ongoing strips in Warrior: Marvelman and V for Vendetta, both of which debuted in Warrior's first issue in March 1982. V for Vendetta was a dystopian thriller set in a future 1997 where a fascist government controlled Britain, opposed only by a lone anarchist dressed in a Guy Fawkes costume who turns to terrorism to topple the government. Illustrated by David Lloyd, Moore was influenced by his pessimistic feelings about the Thatcherite Conservative government, which he projected forward as a fascist state in which all ethnic and sexual minorities had been eliminated. Marvelman (later retitled Miracleman for legal reasons) was a series that originally had been published in Britain from 1954 through to 1963, based largely upon the American comic Captain Marvel. Upon resurrecting Marvelman, Moore "took a kitsch children's character and placed him within the real world of 1982".

Warrior closed before these stories were completed, but under new publishers both Miracleman and V for Vendetta were resumed by Moore, who finished both stories by 1989.

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[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Going to the gym during the winter is such a pain in the asssadness

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[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm alive, been enjoying my time off Social Media greatly so I think I'll stay limited for now but just wanted to poke my head back in marx-hi

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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[–] john_browns_beard@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Me, vibing, approximately one hour late for taking my pill that helps me remember to take pills: blob-no-thoughts

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Gonna be real, I have no strong feelings about the Hunter pardon. Biden definitely seems like the type that would do anything in his power to help his shitty kid.

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[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

this video essay could have been an essay

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[–] blipblip@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

Looking like one of those do nothing work days. Wish I lived close enough that I could just be at home unless there was actually a thing for me to do

[–] blight@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

clowns be out there washing their hair with sham-poo when they should be using REAL-poo

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[–] SoylentSnake@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

age gap discoursethe universe is how old? and it lets us inside it? wow. power dynamics. do much, MUCH better.

[–] RION@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)
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[–] dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I want to become a successful writer, but I'm not particularly talented. Does anyone know how I can get CIA backing?

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[–] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Somehow ended up creating a sort of polycule in the last month.

catgirl-flop

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[–] OrionsMask@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Holy shit, I can click "next" on this website and it actually works now!! I've been browsing nothing but page 1 for like a year!

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[–] Wmill@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If I were a vampire I'd simply ignore the parts about drinking blood, not going into the sunlight and not liking garlic. Idk I'm not some larper I'd just kinda do my own thing living forever you know pikmin-chillin

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[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Doomin' a littleOne story on local news about a new law banning the sale of pets raised in factory farms mostly featured a small business tyrant whining about people losing jobs and the creation of pet black market, as if there aren't already black markets for pets. But one of the most disheartening things was hearing my parents, in particular my dad, complaining about how businesses are getting fined for everything even after I explained what factory farms are and why they are bad. I fucking hate everythingdoomer

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[–] RION@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

tryin something new

gleep glorp

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[–] Goblin@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Job might be flirting with 5 day return to work... If that comes to fruition I'm going to do even less work then I haven't been doing.

I have violent thoughts for those smug bootlickers who squeal about how they've been missing the social element and how big of an adjustment telework was for them. Fuck you, find a hobby!!!! monke-rage

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[–] jimmyjohnsilverhand2@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Goddamn, I really wish I had my own house or something, I just want to be alone and not have to deal with anyone right now idk

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

It’s really funny that one of the Harry Potter stars is doing semi-accidental tax fraud the same way my dad’s trucker friends are. Like hire an accountant, don’t go by like pure vibes and zero separation between your personal and corporate accounts.

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We used to be a proper country

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[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Working as a mailman at this time of year is. Fucked. Up. rust-darkness

I almost want my bar job back lmao at least I won’t die of heat stroke

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Baldur's Gate 3 offers a wide and diverse cast of potential romantic partners for me to ignore and instead choose Shadowheart every playthrough.

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[–] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

some people cannot be saved by touching grass, at this point they need an IV infusion of grass.

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[–] AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

The vegan product of my vegan labor

Thai curried tofu and broccoli over rice noodles, roasted cabbage with a sweet thai chili sauce, and "gochujang" potatoes (quotes because this gochujang sauce we get sucks, it's basically identical to the general tso's)

[–] Mokey2@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

It is I, Lü Bu. I am the most valorous warrior in all of the world. I have Red Hare, world's fastest horse. I have the trident halberd. I have Diaochan, the most beautiful woman in the world. Most importantly of all I have the Playstation 5.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Instead of milk and cookies for Santa, as a kid I'd leave out a rum and coke and a bowl of BBQ chips. This is cause my parents didn't want to waste milk ans cookies by pretending they were eaten.

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (6 children)

@HarryLime@hexbear.net’s wolfposting did this. Congrats on becoming the wolf Shinzo Abe (only successful).

[–] 2812481591@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Letting the Chinese people on my China Southern Airlines flight know I'm one of the good ones and completely well adjusted by listening to East is Red for 8 hours on open back headphones. smuglord

[–] asa_red_heathen@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Reposting to declare my eternal devotion to the arm and hammer catgirl for all to hear

[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

PointAndClique do NOT chew on small plastic thing

Me: okay

Also me five seconds later: xok-og

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Wild theory time. Yoon was so embarrassed and desperate to distract the Western Media from his failed coup attempt that he put out the hit on the UnitedHealth CEO. He didn't specify that it should be him, but just someone important enough to grab headlines.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The vibe seems generally OK until you suggest that maybe people should just consume less

Perhaps if we all purchased/watched less slop, we might be able to take back the slightest control over our data-collected and surveilled lives?

I like to believe that there millions of people in the US who share my sentiment, maybe they overlap with non-voters as well

It’s still incomprehensible to me how many people are on the other side of this, just no thoughts whatsoever regarding the fact that consuming is just like fast food fulfillment for your conscious experience AND its overvalued to an absurd degree

Absolutely fucking blows

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[–] blight@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

when the whitest person you know is consistently using the blackest emojis (eg 👍🏿🤴🏿🤷🏿)

sus why!?

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[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

Been using reddit-logo again for a specific hobby sub. Please keep me in your prayers.

[–] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

If you want to play minecraf, be careful about creepers. Those guys are trouble!

[–] jimmyjohnsilverhand2@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Anyone else have a recurring dream? The one I have is I keep trying to buy a cake at my local grocery store, but every time I try to buy one something happens before I can get it. One time I had finally bought one in my dream and when I left the store there was no way to exit the parking lot. It was blocked by bushes, and at that moment I woke up. I was so close yet so far from getting that cake lmao

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[–] The_sleepy_woke_dialectic@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Anyone else think OLED kind of looks like shit in real world use? Yeah the black levels are impressive, but when the software was written the UI designer told the computer "This element is #000000" they really meant "Make this very dark grey" because that's what they were seeing on their display. Now things are kind of jarringly contrast-y in ways I don't think were intended.

Will HDR fix this by having a more objective color space?

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[–] Grownbravy@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

wanting to play a ttrpg, but i think i wanna get away from the fantasy setting.

Thinking about LancerRPG, or Mage: The Ascension for either hyper mega future or recent past spooky cryptid stuff

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[–] eight@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

hate being sick. at least it's not covid.

[–] Blockocheese@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The worst sentence I've heard recently was "we were just playing our DS's like normal and-do you know what sounding is?"

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[–] SoylentSnake@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

my cat needs to work on her anxious attachment style, fr. while i get that it's not her fault, it is her responsibility

no but srsly if she learned to just be like 25% less annoying she'd get what she wants way way more. like yes name redacted i would like to let you sleep with me but i can't do that if you constantly walk on my head and try to crawl into my mouth i would die of sleep deprivation. yes name redacted i'd like to hang out with you while i do my chill solitary recharge time/creative project time but i can't do that if you crawl all over me constantly and/or incessantly knock all my shit off my desk no matter how many times i've kicked you off.

tragic figure, fr fr.

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

20 years late to the party but I played through shadow of the colossus. It really is a perfect game. It’s too bad it’s a little cryptic and janky which means we will basically never get a game like it again. It sucks that development costs mean anything even remotely niche in gaming has to be a smallish indie game.

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[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

How stupid would it be to get an article of clothing with a CCCP sputnik design? Outside of IRL friends it's mostly libs and some chuds in my area

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