Writer: Alan MooreArtist: Kevin O’NeillColourist: Ben DimagmaliwLetterer: Todd KleinEditor: Chris StarosPublisher: Top Shelf productions / Knockabout80 PAGES Paperback, 260 X 170mmISBN 9780861661633 The Book: The third chapter of the third volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen continues the adventures of… Read More ›
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WebFinds: Writing Comics Resource
Lee Robson and Matthew Badham alerted me to this last month but it got buried in my in-tray. Writer-To-Watch-Out-For Dan Hill has managed to recompile a huge collection of articles and links from professional comic writers about the various aspects… Read More ›
99 Per Cent launch record label – backed by Alan Moore
Occupation Records: The 99 per cent to launch a record label from You and I Films on Vimeo. Occupation Records is a benefit record label set up to fund Occupy London and the global occupy movement. The label is run… Read More ›
Re-staging Halo Jones: the inside story
When the Forbidden Planet International blog heard that there was going to be a new stage version of Halo Jones produced at the Lass O’Gowrie pub in Manchester (a spot already well known to local science fiction and comics… Read More ›
Panel Borders: Alan Moore and the Horrors at Red Hook
Continuing the Panel Borders radio show’s month of shows about H.P. Lovecraft, Alex Fitch talks to Alan Moore about his final graphic novel that isn’t part of the continuing League of Extraordinary Gentlemen narrative – Neonomicon – which has been… Read More ›
‘League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’ exhibition invades Europe
An exclusive “selling exhibition” of art from Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen saga opens later this month in various continental locations. In close collaboration with Alan Moore, acclaimed writer of Watchmen, From Hell and V for… Read More ›
Exclusive: Halo Jones stage play at the Lass O’Gowrie
Manchester’s Lass O’Gowrie pub – already famed for its comics and Doctor Who-related events – is staging Alan Moore and Ian Gibson’s The Ballad of Halo Jones as a fringe play in January next year. “It’s an adaptation of the… Read More ›
Alan and Steve Moore’s poetry goes online
One of the more obscure of Alan Moore‘s works is Technical Vocabularies, a poetry collection he and Steve Moore produced in 2004 in very limited numbers. Now, Alan and Steve have allowed Padraig O Méaloid to post it online on… Read More ›
Steve Moore’s Somnium novel out in November
Comic creator Steve Moore — creator of such wonderful characters as Abslom Daak, Dalek Killer and Axel Pressbutton — has an intriguing new novel on the way from Somnium Press, with Strange Attractor Press. A prominent inclusion in Iain Sinclair’s 2006… Read More ›
In Review: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen – Century: 1969
By Alan Moore and Kevin O’NeillPublisher: Top Shelf/KnockaboutOut: NowThe Book: The second volume detailing the exploits of Miss Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues. Volume two takes place almost 60 years after the events of Century: 1910, in the psychedelic… Read More ›
Gosh! Comics Moves home – but not before one mega Alan Moore signing
Top London comics store Gosh! Comics have outgrown their happy home of 25 years close to the British Museum and are moving to new, bigger premises in Soho. But, before they go, they’re saying goodbye to 39 Great Russell Street… Read More ›
Titan Books lands Avatar Press distribution rights for the UK
Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martinwill be distributed in the UK by Titan Books Titan Books has announced it is partnering with Avatar Press, the highly regarded independent American publisher of comic books, founded in 1996 by William A. Christensen,… Read More ›
V for Vendetta Original Art on eBay
The artwork for V for Vendettaoffered on eBay I’m selling an original piece of art from Alan Moore and David Lloyd‘s classic story V for Vendetta on eBay. With the byline “We shouldn’t have to live like this” – a… Read More ›
Brighton’s Kino Club premieres Jeff Lint documentary
Brighton’s Kino Club will be screening the world premiere of Steve Aylett’s much anticipated and soon-to-be-cult film Lint The Movie this week, based on his books Lint and And Your Point Is? and featuring some well-known comic creators, including Alan… Read More ›
Alan Moore, Storyteller
downthetubes has just received an advance copy of Alan Moore, Storyteller by Gary Spencer Millidge — and it’s simply stunning. We’ll be posting a review of this gorgeous-looking book nearer publication date, but the book, published by ILEX, is the… Read More ›
Out of this World: Science Fiction but not as you know it
Ray Bradbury’s ‘A Sound of Thunder’, first published in Collier’s Weekly, 28 June 1952, illustrated by Frederick Siebel. Copyright © The Estate of Frederick Siebel. One of the images featuring in the Out of this World exhibition at the British… Read More ›
The Strange Attractions of Alan Moore
(with thanks to Pádraig Ó Méalóid): The most recent issue of Strange Attractor Journal contains, amongst much else, the text for Alan Moore’s unfinished John Dee opera, focusing on the life of the well known English mage, which he was… Read More ›
Comic Book Alliance charity auction extended by a day!
As we previously reported, The Comic Book Alliance – “The Voice of the British Comics Industry” – are offering comic fans some very special Christmas treats this week with their very first fundraising auction — including the chance to star… Read More ›
Comic Book Alliance charity offers Batman fans the chance to star in a comic alongside their hero
Last updated 10th December Yes, you read that correctly! Thanks to the Comic Book Alliance, this is a fund-raising auction where the highest bidder will get to star alongside the Dark Knight in his very own comic! Not only will… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Lunartik Toys, Lunatic Comiket and Divine Comedy!
• Matt JOnes has confirmed his new Lunartik Mini Teas figures will be Launching at the Forbidden Planet Mega Store on the 20th November (see news story). He’ll be on hand to sign my new Lunartik Mini Teas and fill… Read More ›