Alan Moore
Alan Moore was born on 18 November 1953 in Northampton, a town in the United Kingdom that provided the geographic setting of his early life. A British citizen working in the English language, Moore has occupied several creative roles over the course of his career, among them writer, comics writer, comics artist, illustrator, novelist, and opinion journalist.
Moore's comics work includes a range of notable titles produced across different formats and series. Watchmen stands among his recognized works in the medium, as does V for Vendetta. Batman: The Killing Joke and Swamp Thing represent further titles associated with his name, while From Hell is another work listed among his notable output. Each of these titles reflects the breadth of formats Moore has worked within during his career as a comics writer and artist.
Moore also produced The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Promethea, both of which appear among his notable works. His activity as a novelist and opinion journalist has extended his practice beyond the comics medium, placing him within a wider category of English-language writers. The range of roles he has held — from illustrator to prose novelist to journalist — marks the varied character of his professional output.
Moore has received several awards from within the comics industry. He was given the Eisner Award for Best Writer and the Harvey Award for Best Writer, and he was inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame. He also received the Inkpot Award. These honours, granted by bodies associated with the American comics field, are among the formal recognitions attached to his name in the available record.
Quotes by Alan Moore
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If you would know my path and follow in its way, then know the land about, both track and willage, in its bridge and in its drownings. Know the outcast rat-shacks, relic stones and gill-halls. Mark each path above and know the underpath below, its secret way from vault to treasure hole.’ My.
I’m very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.
People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, ‘To keep out the scum.’
You must understand that knowledge is not all your heritage. I includes also courage and belief, like hers that we commemorate herein... and romance. Always, always romance.
It wasn’t so much all the sex that robbed me of my moral bearings, but all the narcotics. I must say, there’s something about opium that goes very well with lesbianism.
The child had woken before she could ask whether this meant that pigeons were all human ghosts, forms that dead people had gone into and become, or whether they somehow existed simultaneously in Heaven, where dead people go, and up amongst the rafters of the derelict barn in the neighbour’s yard at the same time.
Delightfully, however, even phrases of world-ending awesome fury, spoken through a split lip, were quite funny.
You have to impress him! Be independent and plucky, but often do things that are moronic and out of character!
I’m not a very shy person. I’m just somebody who’s got a lot of work and who doesn’t like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.