Ahead of new episodes of comic creator Kev F. Sutherland’s Comic Cuts The Panel Show podcast, he’s released a never-before-heard gem from the archives: a 1982 interview with Alan Moore and the late, also great Steve Moore (no relation).
“Steve Noble and I did this interview at Comicana in 1982, and the transcript made it into an article in Fantasy Advertiser,” says Kev, “But nobody’s heard the original audio till now. And you’re lucky even this survived. I have to thank sound producing genius Helen Quigley for rescuing what little could be salvaged from a truly dreadful cassette recording done all those years ago, probably with a magnet and some sellotape by the sound of it. Enjoy.”
The interview featured in one of Kev’s “The Wednesday Column” features for Fantasy Advertiser #76, published in December 1982 (available to read online thanks to the brilliant FANSCENE archive site here).
In it, Alan and Steve discuss their work on Warrior, which was newly launched at the time, and the planned forthcoming work which included “Skizz” for 2000AD, that appeared the following year, and a movie called Mirrorman, which we can only assume is still in development.
You can hear Steve “Stanton” Noble, Kev’s fellow interviewer, on the Bristol Cult Film Society Cult Film Podcast Podcast, and listen out for Kev F, returning with fresh episodes of Comic Cuts, very soon.
• Check out Kev F’s Comic Cuts Podcast, which launched in 2021, on Buzzsprout and other podcast platforms
Organised by Rob Barrow, Comicana 82 took place over the weekend of 25th – 26th September at Regent Crest Hotel, London, produced by Fantasy Domain and Comic Showcase, with Frank Miller a special guest.
New Interviews with Alan Moore
Alan Moore is widely regarded as one of the best and most influential writers in the history of comics. His seminal works include From Hell, Lost Girls and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. He is also the author of Voice of the Fire, Jerusalem, the short story collection Illuminations, and also The Great When – the first in the five-book Long London series.
Alan Moore was born in Northampton, and has lived there ever since.
Alan also written novels and performs “workings” (one-off performance art/spoken word pieces) with The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some of which have been released on CD.
His extraordinary latest novel, I Hear A New World, was published last week, the continuation of his tales of The Great When, a dark and beguiling tour through the streets of London, fictional and real. As we reported last year, a television adaptation is in the works.
You can read Joe Gordon’s review of the first story, The Great When, here
He’s been interviewed recently by several media outlets, including The Observer, The Northampton Poetry Review (Issue 6, although this interview was conducted in 2022) and RetroFuturista.
In The Great When, it’s 1958. A time of Rock and Roll, of protest, riot and change. and London is full of danger. Dennis Knuckleyard is finally growing up, and above all he wants to leave the Great When in the past. For nine years, he’s avoided so much as thinking about the magical shadow version of London, managing even to palm off what should’ve been his last souvenir of that experience – an iron key he secretly brought back.
But while Dennis may believe he’s done with the Great When, it’s not done with him. The unsuspecting rube now in possession of the key has discovered its magical properties, bringing forth mythic, occult beings into Dennis’s London and sparking riots in the capital. Worse still, Dennis hears his first love Grace has returned to the Great When to investigate strange happenings in both cities.
Desperate to keep Grace safe and return London to normal, Dennis follows her back into the hidden city. But once it has him back, The Great When will not let him go away again so easily. He and Grace must fight to set things right or forever lose everything.
• I Hear A New World by Alan Moore is available in a glorious hardcover edition now from all good bookshops | ISBN: 978-1526643292 | AmazonUK Affiliate Link | UKBookshop.org Affiliate Link | Waterstones Exclusive Edition
• Read Joe Gordon’s review of The Great When
• For plenty more Alan Moore news and interview links, check out the excellent Alan Moore World blog, which includes an exclusive interview about The Great When, published in 2025.
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Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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