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Alan Moore interview at Salon.com

 
 
electricinca
12:58 / 23.07.04
See it here.

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electricinca
13:07 / 23.07.04
A wide ranging interview that covers his work and his views on politics and how TV and Film are short-cutting reality and damaging the public's ability to discern the truth of events.

Favourite quotes from the interview:-
" And I really hope that people are not morally lazy or weak enough to elect this guy; I won't say 'again' because he wasn't elected the first time. And it is true to say that across the world there is quite a lot of anti-America sentiment, which is different than anti-American sentiment. I think that even in the majority of Muslim countries that have been polled, nobody blames Americans -- they blame George Bush and the people surrounding him. Mind you, we'll see what happens this November, because you can have someone take over your country once and still have it be an accident. But twice? Well, that would be regrettable. [Laughs.]"

" I mean, I think that television is one of the most diabolical -- in the very best sense of the word -- inventions of the past century. It has probably done more to degrade the mind and intelligence of its audience, even if they happen to be drug addicts or alcoholics; I would think that watching television has done more to limit their horizons in the long run. And it has also distorted our culture."
 
 
_Boboss
13:14 / 23.07.04
yr better off going through lux23's blog, he has a link to a .pdf of it that you don't need to watch the ad for. and there's a thread on this already in the temple, like the pagans tv show.
 
 
electricinca
13:33 / 23.07.04
Okay I hardly ever read the Temple forum so I missed it but here's a link to the other thread and also a link to the pdf of the interview.
 
 
_Boboss
13:49 / 23.07.04
didn't mean that to sound arsey, sorry incy
 
 
LVX23
15:19 / 23.07.04
I was just about to post the link here. Glad you guys beat me to it!
 
 
sleazenation
15:57 / 23.07.04
Just as well really - seriously guys do we actually need three threads to talk about one interview?
 
 
FinderWolf
16:01 / 23.07.04
It's in Comics and Temple - what's the 3rd thread it's in? I would argue that it's kind of equally relevant to both Comics and Temple, but it's no biggie.
 
 
FinderWolf
16:10 / 23.07.04
"I think that the real life in any culture happens on the margins." Nice.

I also find his comments about the last dying gasps of the right-wing religious conservative movement in America hopeful, although I am concerned that it might have many more such 'last dying gasps' in it before it goes away. Middle America produces many children who think the way their folks do...
 
 
FinderWolf
16:55 / 23.07.04
Actually, the more I think of it, Moore doesn't discuss comics much in this interview at all - if moderators decided it had to be one or the other, Comics or Temple, maybe temple is slightly better...? I dunno.
 
 
FinderWolf
18:20 / 27.07.04
I had heard that Moore's daughter Leah, who wrote two short Tom Strong stories in TOM STRONG'S TERRIFIC TALES, is writing a Wildstorm title called WILD GIRL, but I also saw this oddity on The Pulse SDCC wrap-up:

>> IPC a British comics publisher has teamed up with DC. Andrew Sumner editor of IPC there said "DC and IPC are teaming up to bring the IPC stable of classic comic characters to America. The Steel Claw and the House of the Doll Man, were just two of a library of characters from the '60s mentioned. The people writing it are: Alan Moore and his daughter Leah. The artist working on the line is Shane Oakley with inker Sandra Hope. The covers are to be done by Dave Gibbons.

And someone on the Pulse message board they thought these characters were sort of the inspiration for some of the Jack Staff characters.
 
 
sleazenation
18:39 / 27.07.04
Yes most of the characters in Jack Staff are a reference to something, be that semi-forgotten Marvel US characters old British TV shows or old UK comics. The claw, the spider, tom tom and a whole host of others are based on old IPC characters IRC...

By the by, IPC isn't so much a comic company as a mainstream British publishing company that published comics up until the late 80s or early 90s that has recently been bought by TimeWarner... So, it should really come as no surprise that the tie-up is coming through DC, another Time Warner company.
 
 
_Boboss
07:29 / 28.07.04
there's a piece in this month's fortean times where the author bio at the end of the article just happens to let slip that he's finished comicing wild girl with his girlfriend leah moore. nowt wrong with that, sjust most folk who write for ft don't happen to drop in their girlfriend's full name in their bit at the end. and facial hair.

however, am working on old ipc characters? wil lbe very interesting to see how this compares to jack staff and zenith
 
 
DaveBCooper
14:12 / 28.07.04
Intriguing a notion as it is, I would have thought it was unlikely that Alan Moore would work on the Steel Claw or Kelly’s Eye or whatever in the DC/IPC re-vamps that are hinted at; Alan’s vowed not to work for DC again for a variety of reasons (ABC was already established when DC bought Wildstorm), and IPC may well be tarred with the Fleetway/rebellion brush insofar as they were the publishers of 2000AD when Halo Jones was first printed, and as Alan and Ian Gibson were unable to get the rights to the character as they’d hoped.
It might happen, but it seems a bit unlikely, and it’s not as if he isn’t busy enough anyway.

Back on topic : interesting interview, thanks for the links. Covers some of the ground in the recent ‘Mindscape of …’ film, but that’s not a bad thing by any stretch of the imagination.
 
  
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