Quick, Boy Genius' (with Kevin Nowlan) and 'From Hell' (with Eddie Campbell) among many, many other projects. Williams III), 'The Bojeffries Sage' (with Steve Parkhouse), 'A Small Killing' (with Oscar Zárate), 'Top Ten' (with Gene Ha and Zander Cannon), 'Ironwolf: Fires of the Revolution' (with Mike Mignola and Howard Chaykin), 'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen' (with Kevin O' Neill), 'Jack B. The man keeps creating new worlds, new characters, new images.Īfter 'Watchmen', Moore has worked on 'Greyshirt' ( Rick Veitch), 'Big Numbers' and 'Brought to Light' (with Bill Sienkiewicz), 'Lost Girls' (with Melinda Gebbie, influenced by the work of Franz von Bayros), 'Judgement Day' (with Rob Liefeld), 'Marvelman', 'Warpsmith' (with Garry Leach), 'Terra Obscura' (with Yanick Paquette), 'Another Suburban Romance' (with Juan José Ryp) 'Tom Strong' (with Chris Sprouse), 'Promethia' (with Jim H. What most people in the mainstream missed, are Moore's earlier scripts, like the Orwellian 'V for Vendetta' ( David Lloyd), the eco-horror 'Swamp Thing' (with Stephen Bissette and John Totleben) and the Batman story 'The Killing Joke' (with Brian Bolland).Īnd it's not only the quality of Moore's writing that impresses - those who would like to know more about Moore's quality standards for comics script-writing are highly recommended to read his essay on the subject (reprinted in 'The Comics Journal') - but also his work ethic. In the fifth issue of 'Watchmen', the supplemental text section was written by Joe Orlando. "Who watches the watchmen?" is the central riddle of this late eighties classic. Moore's claim to fame with the mainstream audience stems from the monumental 'Watchmen' (art by Dave Gibbons), a clever and obsessively detailed take on the phenomenon of men in tights, A.K.A. Among his graphic influences are Leo Baxendale, Vaughn Bodé, Robert Crumb, Kim Deitch, Steve Ditko, Will Eisner, Rick Griffin, Jay Lynch, Harvey Kurtzman, Winsor McCay, George Metzger, Victor Moscoso, Paul Reinman, Spain Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton, Robert Williams, Jim Woodring and S. 'Bob Wachsman Tummler', art by Moore, script by Harvey Pekar.Īfter a thousand and one odd jobs, Northampton lad Alan Moore started out as an underground comix artist, only to realize that his writing might be better than his drawing.
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