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Comics Interview — Issue #012 (June 1984)

Conducted at Moore's home in Northampton, England, this wide-ranging conversation covers his entire body of work: his working-class British comics upbringing, his early strips for 2000 AD and Marvel UK, and his philosophy of reinventing established c...

Comics Interview — Issue #048 (July 1987)

interview Alan Moore

Moore discusses completing Watchmen and his final Swamp Thing issues, expressing both satisfaction and exhaustion after eight years without a holiday. He argues that Watchmen is a self-contained novel-in-comics form with no sequel planned, and that i...

Comics Interview — Issue #065 (December 1988)

interview Alan Moore

...guity of the ending, and the influence of William Burroughs and semiotic theory on Moore's approach. Moore discusses departing from DC, his refusal to sign new contracts with independents over creator rights abuses, and his intention to write graphic...

Comics Interview — Issue #065 (December 1988)

interview Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

A sprawling roundtable first published in the British *Fantasy Advertiser*, covering the structural, visual, and thematic construction of *Watchmen* in exhaustive detail. Topics include the nine-panel grid's formal discipline and its origins in Ditko...

Comics Interview — Issue #016 (October 1984)

interview Dave Gibbons

... over soap-opera storytelling). He mentions a forthcoming Superman Annual with Alan Moore and his desire to eventually write, pencil, ink, letter, and color his own work.

Comics Interview — Issue #019 (January 1985)

interview Brian Bolland

...chnique (spending up to two and a half days on a single page). He reveals that Alan Moore had written a synopsis for a Batman Meets Judge Dredd crossover that ultimately fell through due to inter-company complications, and mentions upcoming project...

Comics Interview — Issue #024 (June 1985)

interview Karen Berger

...off-genre" books over superhero titles, and Swamp Thing's 60% sales increase under Alan Moore's tenure. She shares frank observations about why female characters fail to attract girl readers, why the comics market is overwhelmingly male, and her ambi...

Comics Interview — Issue #028 (1985)

article The Last Word (Letters column)

... novelist Ramsey Campbell thanking CI for his issue #22 interview and recommending Alan Moore's Swamp Thing; and a note from Gerard Jones and Will Jacobs promoting their forthcoming book The Comic Book Heroes, with a response from DAK.

Comics Interview — Issue #029 (1985)

interview Michael T. Gilbert

... a cross-country move), and how First Comics picked up Elric. He also reveals that Alan Moore wrote a 16-page Mr. Monster story with a 40-page single-spaced script, and that he and Moore have had serious discussions about a Swamp Thing vs. Mr. Monste...

Comics Interview — Issue #032 (March 1986)

interview Stephen Bissette

...m Veitch. He speaks at length about his collaborative storytelling philosophy with Alan Moore — layered visual clues, reflective-surface transitions, scripts rich with descriptive detail — and draws comparisons to filmmakers Hitchcock, Cronenberg, an...

Comics Interview — Issue #034 (May 1986)

interview Marty Pasko

...by the Comics Code, page limits, and concerns over the Swamp Thing film — with Alan Moore's freer, celebrated approach, arguing the comparison is "apples and oranges." He reflects candidly on his satirical X-Men parody featuring thinly veiled version...

Comics Interview — Issue #039 (October 1986)

interview J. Marc DeMatteis

...-owned work outside the mainstream superhero square, and singles out Frank Miller, Alan Moore, and Steve Gerber as exemplars of the driven, personal vision that makes great comics. He also previews an upcoming Doctor Fate project with Keith Giffen at...

Comics Interview — Issue #042 (January 1987)

interview Steve Ringgenberg

...lling style. He reflects critically on his earlier work for DC and Marvel, praises Alan Moore's Watchmen as the best comic on the market, and is sharply critical of Chris Claremont's verbosity and Frank Miller's insularity. He also discusses his ro...

Comics Interview — Issue #048 (July 1987)

interview Daniel Greenberg

...eling Ozymandias's schemes in the series. He describes consulting extensively with Alan Moore about the Watchmen world's divergence from history and the challenge of designing Dr. Manhattan as a suggested non-player character due to his near-omnipote...

Comics Interview — Issue #048 (July 1987)

interview Ray Winninger

...he series' own narrative technique. He spent considerable time on the phone with Alan Moore co-developing a detailed chronological history of the Watchmen world, including expanded backstories for the Minutemen, and argues that the module's built-in ...

Comics Interview — Issue #048 (July 1987)

article Editorial: "Revenge of the Writers" (DAK)

David Anthony Kraft frames the issue as a celebration of comics writers, noting Alan Moore's career-long effort to win respect for the craft, and announces this as his own "farewell to comics" issue as he transitions fully into publishing.

Comics Interview — Issue #052 (November 1987)

interview Frank Miller

...ut after pressure from religious groups, and how he organized a petition signed by Alan Moore, Howard Chaykin, and Marv Wolfman, which he says led directly to DC firing Wolfman as an editor. He argues that the direct sales market offers genuine creat...

Comics Interview — Issue #052 (November 1987)

article Spotlight: Censorship (Frank Miller, int. Mark Borax)

...i-censorship information booklet he is assembling from editorials by Mark Evanier, Alan Moore, Chris Claremont, and Steve Bissette.

Comics Interview — Issue #053 (December 1987)

interview Joyce Brabner

Brabner edited Real War Stories for the CCCO and recruited top talent including Alan Moore, Brian Bolland, Denny O'Neil, Bill Sienkiewicz, and Steve Bissette. She describes the book as strictly non-fiction — no composite characters, no fictionalizati...

Comics Interview — Issue #088 (November 1990)

interview Fulvia Serra

...tion, *Peanuts*' enormous Italian success, and plans to introduce Frank Miller and Alan Moore's works to Italian readers.

Comics Interview — Issue #092 (March 1991)

interview Len Wein

... his fondness for The Incredible Hulk, favorite Batman stories, working with Alan Moore on Swamp Thing, and early career breaks through fanzines and Joe Orlando at DC.

Comics Interview — Issue #103 (February 1992)

article Letters: The Last Word

...th and Kim Thompson of Fantagraphics (Thompson disputing DAK's characterization of Alan Moore); DAK responds to Thompson at length.

Comics Interview — Issue #119 (March 1993)

interview Todd McFarlane

...usses Image's break from Malibu, his strategy of bringing in high-profile writers (Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Dave Sim) to write Spawn as a response to critics who said he couldn't write, and reveals the then-unannounced Batman/Spawn crossover — the ...

Comics Interview — Issue #119 (March 1993)

interview Jim Valentino

...Giffen, and shares extensive detail about the 1963 retro-homage series featuring Alan Moore, Steve Bissette, Rick Veitch, Dave Gibbons, and others. He defends Image's impact on creator rights industry-wide.

Comics Interview — Issue #119 (March 1993)

interview Paul Neary

.... He discusses how Marvel UK was integral in launching British talent (Alan Davis, Alan Moore, Steve Dillon, Dave Gibbons), and the new Overkill fortnightly comic housing Marvel UK's original British superhero universe.

Comics Interview — Special Edition - Judge Dredd vs Batman (January 1985)

interview Brian Bolland

...hoices. He also reveals the collapsed Batman Meets Judge Dredd project scripted by Alan Moore and reflects on Frank Miller's influence on the field.

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