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| headpress + video |
[09 Jul 2009|12:51am] |
Headpress # 27 interview. Not sure if it's an excerpt or the entire thing (haven't finished it yet). via Bleeding Cool
Also, video from the recent talk in London with Michael Moorcock and Iain Sinclair. Get it while you can.
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| Alan Moore in Northampton videos |
[07 Jun 2009|02:51pm] |
There are several Youtube clips featuring Alan at this site.
He talks about his life and work as well as the history of Northampton. There's an interesting insight into 'Jerusalem'
The videos were made as part of a project working with young people in the part of the town where Alan grew up.
it's a reflection of his generous nature that he often contributes to local arts activities in town like this
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| Century annotations |
[30 May 2009|09:15pm] |
Jess Nevins has begun the task of annotating Century Vol 1 here
I was a bit underwhelmed when I first read though the book but it has really grown on me. Kevin O'Neil's artwork continues to be as rich as ever - and the Minions on the Moon section adds extra weight and insight to the unfolding story.
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| even neil gaiman agrees, paul levitz |
[18 May 2009|11:03pm] |
"The Amazon complaints on Black Dossier (which is over 150 pages shorter than Death will be) aren't about the 'pricing issue', but that it's a complete and utter rip off, as you aren't getting anything extra for your money above what you'd get if you just order the normal hardback of the Black Dossier -- the Absolute edition just has just slightly bigger pages and a slipcase."
- Neil Gaiman
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| audio moore |
[13 May 2009|02:16am] |
Just saw this, not sure if it's old or new. Anyway, thought some of us would be interested. :)
Audio of Moore on the nature of superheroes.
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| Caption competition! Your chance to be funny! |
[11 May 2009|10:00pm] |
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Hello, everyone,
I've just started an LoEG-themed caption competition. The rules are simple; you're given a picture, and all you have to is add a funny caption. Easy!
Whoever comes up with the most hilarious, side-splitting caption wins!
And this round's picture is of Mina and Orlando, who could be talking about anything. Put your thinking caps on, people!
I'm curious to see your captions, fellow Moore fans.
Cheers,
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rolando8
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| Interviews: Alan Moore and Others |
[08 May 2009|02:18pm] |
All three parts of my recent interview with Alan Moore are now online at the Forbidden Planet International Blog.
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
It was two hours on the phone, which typed up to just under fifteen thousand words long, and was twenty-seven pages long. It makes me tired just thinking about it! If you were following my Twitter at the time, you'll have seen me tweeting about my slow progress through it.
Next up, there's an interview with Dave McKean waiting on my editor's desk at the FPI Blog, I'm just getting to the end of one with Gary Lloyd, and I've just started interviews with Eddic Campbell, Bryan Talbot, Rick Veitch, and Leah Moore & John Reppion, all likely to be long, career-spanning pieces. There'll also be shorter interviews with mizkit/CE Murphy and rainboworchid/Garen Ewing ahead of publication of Catie's Take a Chance GN and the first volume of Garen's Rainbow Orchid, respectively. I've also spoken to Al Davison about doing something. There are lots of other I'd be keen to interview as well, of course, but this lot'll certainly keep me going until the end of the year, I imagine.
While the interview with Alan took two hours on the phone, the interview with Dave McKean eventually took six months by email. This is probably the extreme with these things, as he really is very busy, as any of you who follow his Twitter will have seen. There were long gaps on both sides, which is one of the real benefits of doing an email interview; if there's no time constraint, you can literally take as long as you need to to do it.
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| Alan Moore Interview Part 1 |
[06 May 2009|12:37am] |
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The first part of my frankly ridiculously long recent interview with Alan Moore is now online here. More to follow before the week is out, I hope.
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| More Miracleman Malarkey |
[05 May 2009|10:38pm] |
A few more odd things about Miracleman have reared their ugly heads in the last coupla weeks. First of all there was this piece on ComicMix.com, A badly written, poorly researched piece, whose only point of interest is its assertion that the rights to a Miracleman movie are being touted about by a Scottish businessman called Jon Campbell. God knows, Scotsmen called Jon Campbell are unlikely to be rare, as is pointed out in this piece.
However, this guy did what I was about to do, which is link up the name Jon Campbell with the information in Neil Gaiman: Prince of Tales about a company called Emotiv having bought the rights to Marvelman from Mick Anglo, and you end up with a music producer who has a site which, at the end of the page, has this: © 2009 Emotiv Records Ltd. And a bit more poking around gets us to this website: http://www.emotiv.info/
So, Jon Campbell, Scottish music producer, is the man behind Emotiv, it seems, and is also the man named by ComicMix as trying to sell the movie rights to Miracleman. So, so far, so good.
Especially if you add in the fact that Mick Anglo apparently has a grandson in the music business.
Now, how does all this relate to the bizarre story that originates from a listing on eBay which says this: "In speaking with Garry Leach recently, co-creator of Miracleman, he tells me there is yet another bizarre twist in the tale. Plans are afoot to completely revamp the character with a new name, a new costume and new artwork but keeping Alan Moore's words! Garry was not pleased to say the least! That mean's it is very unlikely that the original Miracleman comics will ever be reprinted as originally intended, everyone please take note of that!"
Someone got in touch with the seller, who had this to say, "All I know is that plans are afoot to revamp Miracleman, they will change the name, the costume etc but still keep Alan Moore's original dialogue! I have no idea about the other characters but they will probably be revamped too. Garry wouldn't reveal which company plans to publish this comic but apparently they plan to announce something around the time of this year's San Diego comicon so no doubt we will hear something soon!"
It seems there's something going on. Whether it's going to be a good thing or not, remains to be seen.
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| Big Numbers #3 |
[30 Apr 2009|04:15pm] |
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I just realised that I never actually posted a link to this here. In January, to cut a long story very short, I bought a photocopy of Big Numbers #3, which up to that point was not known to exist. You can see the whole thing, all 40 pages of it, over on my glycon LJ, here
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| LoEG: Century questions |
[30 Apr 2009|02:19pm] |
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Hi everyone!
I'm a huge League of Extraordinary Gentlemen fan, and I noticed, while surfing online, that many people have read the latest volume, Century (often before it was even released). I'm dying to read this new instalment, and I have a few questions:
1) Is Orlando topless in it? I'm a huge Orlando fan. (He's my userpic here.)
2) Are there any sex scenes? How many? And with whom? Tell me everything!
3) How smutty is it? My mum thought Black Dossier was pure porn.
4) Is Orlando really vain; boastful; profoundly irritating; and generally a twat?
And 5) Are there any sex scenes with Mina or Orlando in it?
Please answer these questions, and I'll never stop thanking you. :-)
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| Moorcock & Moore |
[28 Apr 2009|09:17pm] |
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That well known duo from the world of light entertainment are due to give a talk at the British Library in London on June 29th. Details here.
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| new interviews |
[25 Apr 2009|05:17am] |
Here's a really short one from the Wall Street Journal. Only 3 questions(!). Though it's amusing that whoever transcribed seems to have written down Moore saying "underloin" when, knowing his accent, he probably just meant "underline." Is underloin even a word? I thought all loins were under.
And here's the first part of a six-part interview series for Newsarama.
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| glory proposal; interview |
[18 Apr 2009|01:24am] |
Over at the new scansdaily, someone's upped the Glory proposal from the Awesome Universe Handbook.
And over at CBR, a massive two-part interview with Moore about the new League: (part one) (part two)
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