Moment of Moore

“You look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you.”
“Tortoise? What's that?”
“You know what a turtle is?”
“Of course
“Same thing.”

Swamp Thing and tortoise drawn at @newyorkcomiccon.

Peter Thiel mentioned Watchmen during his recent lectures about the Antichrist...

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The first panel of the comic “Watchmen.” On the top of the panel, text reads “Rorschach’s Journal. October 12th, 1985. Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face.” The rest of the panel depicts an extreme closeup of a city street where a pool of blood runs off into a gutter. On the edge of the gutter there is a yellow smiley face button marred by a single drop of blood that partially obscures one eye.

Happy 40th Anniversary of Rorschach seeing the city‘s true face to those who celebrate

Y'all wanna learn about WATCHMEN? Let @kierongillen.bsky.social teach you about WATCHMEN.

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It's The Muppet Show with our very special guest star Swamp Thing!

New Alan Moore cover just dropped.

Good morning! It’s Sunday September 28th 2025! Already? Crikey!

(Out this very month in 1986, just 39 years ago, the epochal Watchmen #4, with its cover by Dave Gibbons & John Higgins.)

You be careful out there among them English, Joanne Book.

Alan's scripts were conversations with the artist, and as such, highly readable and pleasurable to work from. Here's a scan of pg. 1 of SAGA OF THE SWAMP THING #20, Alan's first-ever issue, when he didn't know who the artist would end up being (it was Dan Day, pencils, John Totleben, inks)...

Delighted to inform you that Alan Moore is on tonight's BBC Front Row, discussing The Great When, psycho-geography, comics, fascism and the trouble with superheroes... 715pm Radio 4 or link after.. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

a smiley face scrub daddy sponge in the sink in a puddle of bright red beet juice.

this city is afraid of me. i have seen its true face.

All happy comics industries are alike; each unhappy comics industry is unhappy in its own way

DC To Actually Publish Rick Veitch's Final Issues Of Swamp Thing? DC Comics to actually publish Rick Veitch's final issues of Swamp Thing in 2026?

OMG! I’ve been waiting 36 years for this. 🙂

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An imitation Breton facade in a steep hill-side street lined with wood-frame buildings. Three people are stood looking at the curious building while cars drive down the road.

Ten years ago today I was in Providence, Rhode Island, looking at the building that HP Lovecraft in the Call of Cthulhu describes as "a hideous Victorian imitation of Seventeenth Century Breton architecture which flaunts its stuccoed front amidst the lovely Colonial houses on the ancient hill".

‘When he is an old man, he will look like the evil twin brother of Father Christmas.’

How Alan Moore Introduced Himself To American Readers…

Swamp Thing #25 (1984)

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A drawing of Swamp Thing in shades of grey.

Swamp Thing. A recent private commission based on a classic Stephen Bissette comic panel from the 80s. Ink.

Spider-man / Rorschach meme

Spider-man / Rorschach

‘Women Dressed As Giant Crabs.’

D.R. & Quinch, 2000 AD #366 (1984), artist: Alan Davis

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Panel from Book 1 of Halo Jones

‘Anybody even twitches…’

The Ballard Of Halo Jones Book 1, Prog 380 (1984), Artist: Ian Gibson.

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“Abandon All Art Now” ad by The K Foundation (Publish in NME, 14 Aug 1993)

In 1993, The KLF were done. They'd deleted their entire back catalog and publicly quit the music industry. Bill Drummond & Jimmy Cauty weren't done, though.

They formed the K Foundation, an art collective (of two) that took out full-page ads in NME and other newspapers.

What was their plan? 🧵

Possibly my favorite internet video of all time remains Happy Harry's "Saturday Morning Watchmen"

Swamp thing sketch in ink and grey tone by Helioscope artist Steve Lieber

New in our etsy shop: Swamp Thing sketchcard by @stevelieberart.bsky.social. helioscopepdx.etsy.com/listing/4346...

If it's Sensual Santa he does apologise at the end.

(That one alway made me feel dirty after reading it.)

The most important British character in US comics Alfred Pennyworth? Captain Britain? No, it’s a trench-coated, chain-smoking reprobate who this year celebrates his 40th birthday—John Constantine

40 years of John Constantine! Come raise a glass with me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk. With @jamiedelano.bsky.social
@damedenisemina.bsky.social
@ianrankin1.bsky.social

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/70761/the-most-important-british-character-in-us-comics-john-constantine-hellblazer-alan-moore

In Paddington 2, Paddington is not locked up in the prison with the other prisoners, they’re locked up with Paddington,

[August 3rd, 1985] Alan Moore received the Jack Kirby Award for Best Writer for his work on "Swamp Thing" from Jack Kirby himself at the San Diego Comic-Con, held at the San Diego Convention Center

INTRODUCTION God I am so tired of people asking me what is happening with the film version of Watchmen, "When are you going to do it?" "Have you got the money?" "Who's going to play Rorschach?" "We've read that you've written a new script." No. I don't have the money, No, I haven't written a new script. No, I'm not going to do the film. Ever. Now go away and leave me alone!!! This nightmare began back in 1988 or 89 when Joel Silver, the producer of Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, The Matrix, suggested that we make a film of the Watchmen. "The what?" I said. He thrust a fat hardback comic book in my hand and said read. I read. I loved But, how to make a film of a masterpiece? Always a problem. So far, no one has made a good version of War and Peace, and to me Watchmen is the W and P of comics...sorry, graphic novels. I sat down with Charles McKeown, my writing partner on Baron Munchausen and Brazil, to squeeze out a script. Time passed. Frustration increased. How do you condense this monster book into a 2 - 2½ hour film? What goes? What stays? Therein lies the problem. I talked to Alan Moore. He didn't know how to do it. He seemed relieved that I had taken on the responsibility of fucking up his work rather than leaving it to him. I suggested perhaps a 5 part mini series would be better. I still believe that. With every bit of narrative tightening, we were losing character detail...and without their neuroses and complex relationships the characters were becoming more like normal run-of-the-mill-quirky-super-heroes. There wasn't time to tell all their stories. The Comedian was reduced to someone who dies at the beginning. That's all, just a convenient corpse to kick off the action. None of this was satisfying to me. I wasn't happy with our results. By now, actors were fluttering around Watchmen like crazed moths beating at a dirty street lamp. Robin Williams was keen to play Rorschach. Was that Richard Gere knocking on the door? The pressure on me was building. Thank god, Jo…

Terry Gilliam explains why there should never be a WATCHMEN movie, back in 2003:

Lettering Lovecraft A font design. I’m still working on the new edition of my Lovecraft book, other projects permitting. The restoration gained a substantial boost last week when I finished re-lettering all the …

John Coulthart on reworking the lettering for a Lovecraft comic he’s republishing…

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Magneto puts on Cerebro and enters a world where he has won

Magneto sees that this world is pretty terrible

The dead rise to admonish Magneto

"The hands of the dead are upon me... and I do not even have the right to scream."

Reminder that Alan Moore and Richard Corben once made a three-page Magneto story in the HEROES FOR HOPE one-shot

And reminder that it fucking rules

The Elephant Man meets the Elephant God

Merrick and Ganesha as tarot

Drawn by Alan Moore