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Alan Moore collaborating with the Gorillaz, and more

November 9, 2009 / Klint Finley

Mustard interviews Alan Moore about his new magazine Dodgem Logic and he reveals that he is doing the libretto for their next opera and they will hopefully be contributing a few pages to the magazine:

Then the issue after that we’ve hopefully got Gorillaz onboard. They came down to Northampton last week because we’re planning for me to do the libretto on their next opera project. Being an opportunist, I of course asked them if they’d be prepared to contribute some pages to Dodgem Logic. Rather than just doing an interview with them, I thought it would be interesting to hand over a few pages for them to curate.

Mustard: Alan Moore talks Dodgem Logic

(via 24 Bit via Joe Matheny)

Update: Moore now says this has been overblown.

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and LOST

March 3, 2009 / Klinton

Wired: The League is interesting because of its dependence on that vast canon. Everything from pulp up through every novel that’s been written gets hologrammed.

Moore: In the first two volumes we were dealing mainly with characters from literature, because characters from literature were all that were around up until roughly the end of the 19th century. With this one, the first one set in 1910, we’re using characters from the stage as well as literature. We’re using the whole Threepenny Opera storyline. With the second one, set in 1969, we’ve got access to all of the films and television that were around then. The third part, set in the present day – 2008, 2009 – we have characters from all of the new media that have evolved over the past 30 years.

It is interesting – it is an expanding cast of characters, and I suppose we’re attempting to come up with a kind of unified field theory of culture that actually links up all of these various works, whether they’re high culture or low culture or no culture.

From: Wired interview with Alan Moore.

Interesting to me because of my theory that LOST is “every story.”

Also remember that Watchmen, written by Moore, was a huge influence on LOST.

Alan Moore on the Simpsons – Screen Caps and Summary

December 23, 2008 / Klint Finley

alan moore on the simpsons

Screen caps and summary of Alan Moore’s appearance on the Simpsons

(via Robot Wisdom)

The Occult Origins of Lost

March 11, 2008 / Klinton

I wrote an article on Lost and the occult for Key 64. Probably nothing new for readers of this blog.

ABC’s Lost isn’t the first pop culture phenomena to crib from occultism – movies, television shows, and video games have integrated occult themes and rituals for years. But one thing that sets Lost apart from the crowd is the apparent sincere interest on the part of executive producer and co-creator Damon Lindelof. While most pop cultural attempts at integrating magic and the occult are done merely to add atmosphere to the story, Lindelof has a deeper interest in the material. And rather than beating the viewer over the head with “authentic” occult rituals, Lindelof is more content to pepper the series with references and concepts, leaving the the viewer to decipher their significance.

Full Story: Key 64.

The Word: More Alan Moore

February 17, 2008 / TiamatsVision

“We’re thrilled to have interviewed Alan Moore – creator of benchmark comics Watchmen and V For Vendetta and longtime WORD hero – in FACE TIME this month. Alan is one of the planet’s great conversationalists and we could fit only a part of our 90 minute discussion in the magazine. So, in the spirit of the Extended Deluxe Double CD edition, here’s some more of Mr Moore discussing his new work of “literary pornography” Lost Girls, his century-spanning supersaga The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen… and why Heroes is rubbish.”

(via The Word)

March of the Sinister Ducks by Alan Moore and David J.

October 31, 2005 / Klint Finley

Yes, that Alan Moore. And David J. from Bauhaus and Love and Rockets. A nice song for Halloween.

Watchmen: an Oral History

October 22, 2005 / Klint Finley

Entertainment Weekly is running an oral history of Watchmen. Newsarama has scans and an interview with the journalist who wrote it.

Newsarama.

Update: Here’s the article on EW’s site.

20th anniversary edition of Watchmen

October 20, 2005 / Klint Finley

Just something else I want to spend my money on… ah well, maybe someday:

Each page of art has been restored and recolored by WildStorm FX and original series colorist John Higgins and approved by Gibbons to appear as originally intended.

Additionally, this grand tome will include 48 pages of supplemental material produced exclusively for the Graphitti Designs WATCHMEN hardcover edition and not seen since their original publication. Included therein is a cornucopia of rare and historically valuable treasures, including samples of Moore’s WATCHMEN scripts, the original WATCHMEN proposal, Gibbons’s conceptual art, cover roughs, and much, much more!

Buy it at Amazon.