Alan Moore

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Biography

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Born

11/18/1953, Northampton, England, UK

Birth Name

Alan Moore

Gender

Male

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  • Trivia

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    • Moore drew inspiration for V for Vendetta from a comic strip, called The Doll, he submitted to DC Comics about a transsexual terrorist when Moore was 22.
    • (August 30, 2006) Alan's "Lost Girls" project, started in 1991 with illustrator Melinda Gebbie, the first six chapters of which were printed in "Taboo" magazine, with two collected volumes of reprints from the magazine were published in 1995 by the Tndra imprint of Kitchen Sink Press, is finalized with the other two planned volumes being released in a hardcover edition along with the first by Top Shelf Productions. The series centers around the erotic adventures of the grown-up characters Dorothy, Wendy, and Alice, from the books of "The Wizard Of Oz," "Peter Pan," and "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland".
    • Alan's first contribtions to major publications were for "Dr. Who Weekly" and "2000 A.D.," starting place of Britain's most popular comic character, Judge Dredd.
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    • (on his approach to his "Watchmen" maxi-series) Alan Moore: I also wanted to write about power politics. Ronald Reagan was president. But I worried readers might switch off if they thought I was attacking someone they admired. So we set Watchmen in a world where Nixon was in his fourth term - because you're not going to get much argument that Nixon was scum! For me, the '80s were worrying. 'Mutually assured destruction.' 'Voodoo economics.' A culture of complacency. I was writing about the times I lived in.
    • Alan Moore: I'm perhaps overstating my case here a bit, but I think I lent an awful lot of literary and intellectual credibility to the American comics business and to the comics business in general when I entered it. I don't feel the same way about comics any more, I really don't. I never loved the comic industry. I used to love the comics medium. I still do love the comics medium in its pure platonic, essential form, but the comics medium as it stands seems to me to have been allowed to become a cucumber patch for producing new movie franchise.
    • (about Hollywood's re-writing his works) Alan Moore: The answer I always fall back on is to quote Raymond Chandler. People said: 'Raymond, don't you feel devastated by how Hollywood has destroyed your books?' And he would take them into his study, point to the bookshelf and say, 'There they are. Look, they're fine.' The film has got nothing to do with my work. It has a coincidental title to a book I've done and they've given me a huge wedge of money. No problem with that.
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