Book Soup Blog (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Not one, but two Alan Moore books dealing with eroticism in 2009! Alan Moore has never been a writer afraid of confronting taboo subjects in his projects. He takes great delight in serving up graphic material, but never to be simply gratuitous and shocking. Moore sees art in the erotic where many simply can't (religious types) or refuse not to (religious types)....
ComicList Complete (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Media Release -- Wallace Create are very proud to announce the release of the much anticipated fist issue of Dodgem Logic . Dodgem Logic is the mastermind of Alan Moore the legendry author of iconic graphic novels 'The Watchmen, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, In Hell, V For Vendetta and many more. Alan Moore approached Wallace Create to design the magazine and website,...
Major Spoilers (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
In case you thought yesterday’s Alan Moore song was a one shot moment, here’s another song of Moore singing with Downtown Joe & The Retro Spankees. Related posts Who Watches the Watchmen? Not As Many As You Might Think (20) Who Owns the Watchmen? (3) Watchmen: The End is Nigh Game Trailer (4) Watchmen Trial Bumped to January 20th (5) Watchmen [...]
Communities Dominate Brands (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Our Alan Moore has been very busy and not had the time to be blogging here with us for a while, but he sends his best regards, and asked me to post this link of him speaking at the Do...
ComicList Complete (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Media Release -- Forty years after the uproarious heyday of the alternative press, writer Alan Moore is launching the 21st century's first underground magazine from his home town of Northampton, a community that is right at the geographical, political and economic heart of the country; one which has half its high street boarded up and is at present dying on its arse, just like everywhere...
SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Alan Moore. Comic book genius. Curmudgeon. Singer? Yes, singer! Moore's been in touch with his musical side since the beginning of his comics career, and performed with the band The Sinister Ducks in the '80s. So the creator of Watchmen had a right to sing the blues at the launch party for his new fanzine Dodgem Logic a few nights ago, when he took to the stage with the band The...
The Fill in the Gaps 100 Project (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Amazon.com Review:The mad, shaggy genius of the comics world dips deeply into the well of history and pulls up a cup filled with blood in From Hell . Alan Moore did a couple of Ph.D.'s worth of research into the Whitechapel murders for this copiously annotated collection of the independently published series. The web of facts, opinion, hearsay, and imaginative invention draws the reader...
Major Spoilers (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Here’s something I bet you never thought you’d see in your life – Alan Moore breaking out in song with The Retro Spankees. I say let the weirdness continue through the rest of the week! Related posts No related posts.
Powell's Books: Overview (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Lost Girls by Alan Moore, a review from Rain Taxi by Eric Lorberer.
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
From the Article: The graphic novel that got two employees fired and launched a book-banning campaign in Jessamine County is being recataloged, along with other graphic novels with mature themes, to the adult section of the library. Critics had contended that Alan Moore’s “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier” was shelved in a section of the [...]
Acephalous (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
The final assignment of my visual rhetoric course is called Rhetoric in Practice or RIP. It has two components. To paraphrase the rubric: the students create their own rhetorical performance, explore questions of how to target an audience, follow the conventions of a genre, choose the medium for their message, and all the while, use the critical tools they’ve been learning all quarter to develop...
Shaken & Stirred (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... in either of these cases, you'll come across things like: graphic novels are all for children; Alan Moore is just a...
Lawyers, Guns and Money (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
The final assignment of my visual rhetoric course is called Rhetoric in Practice (or RIP). It has two components. To paraphrase the rubric: the students create their own rhetorical performance, explore questions of how to target an audience, follow the conventions of a genre, choose the medium for their message, and all the while, use the critical tools they’ve been learning all quarter to develop...
Good News Film Reviews (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
***Originally posted March 10, 2009*** Should I see it? No. Short Review: It answers the question what would it be like if Superman became an undergraduate philosophy major and didn’t have the wits to know he shouldn’t take his professors seriously. Zack Snyder’s ( 300 , Dawn of the Dead ) adaptation of Alan Moore’s Watchmen is faithful to the original which means...
LinkMachineGo (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
[comics] Counterculture Comics Hero Grant Morrison Gets a Biopic … Wired cover a new documantary about Grant Morrison … ‘Morrison has lived a very full life, from playing in rock bands to experimenting as a transvestite to becoming, like Alan Moore, a chaos magician. There’s a lot of fertile ground in his personality alone, to [...]
