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UNCLE ALAN ALERT - 12th October

  
 
ThePirateKing
20:59 / 13.08.06

Uncle Alan is doing a live on stage interview about LOST GIRLS etc in the Logan Hall, Central London at 7PM on Thursday October 12th.

Tickets are seven quid on: 0845 456 9876
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
14:43 / 09.10.06
me am going.

anyone else?
 
 
Quantum
14:52 / 09.10.06
Dammit, let us know what he says!
 
 
imaginary friend on the phone
17:13 / 15.10.06
Gaw, I have't posted on here in a long time.

I caught this show. Both Moore and Gebbie were just about everything you could want them to be; poised, knowledgeable, fashionable, affable, funny, open to questions, never taking themselves or the work too seriously. They both signed autographs for hours, and Moore was even encouraging (but realistic) to the guys in line ahead of me who wanted to get into the comics businesss. Chris Staros, publisher of Top Shelf and subsequently Lost Girls, was in attendence as well and gave a few words on the future publishing history of the work.

Among the more memorable bits, Moore referred to Freud as a "coked up kiddle piddler," indicated a metaphor for the men in Dorothy's life he hadn't originally intended with the work itself (every woman has her Cowardly Lion, her Scarecrow and her tin-woodsman), and cleared up the Ormond Street Hospital Debate (the two sides settled out of court and Top Shelf will be releasing a brand new U.K. edition when the rights to Pan relinquish on January 1st, 2008).

Anyone remember anything else. A lot was said.
 
 
sleazenation
18:51 / 15.10.06
I think it was "A coked-up kiddie-fiddler"
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
09:26 / 16.10.06
yeah - was a good night. moore was actually pretty funny too.

and stewart lee was a great host and offered some sharp criticism at times.

this was a really good event. it was a entertaining showcase of some interesting work - some beautiful artwork and panel arrangements. gebbie has excelled herself.

however the writing - the idea at least - still doesn't grab me after all these years. (I've known about this title since it's first radar apperance in the late eighties. Then and now, my feelings are that its just TOO contrived.)

Nevertheless, Moore came across as 'honest' regarding lost girls - hinting at the books limitations and its sometimes narrow, obsucure references but also suggesting it to be some kind of formal exercise rather than a story he geninely felt compelled to tell.

It's another case of Moore using genre as a framework for his ideas; he's done horror, he's done sci-fi, he's done victorian pulp, he's done american superheroes. what's left? pornography?

I thought the comment that league grew out of lost girls was interesting. (the messing around with 'real' fictional characters approach)

thought stewart lee's warning: 'no questions like who'd win in a fight, 'aubrey beardsley or . . . . . swamp thing?' was pretty funny.

(as was the warning that Moore would only sign two items per fanboy)

And when describing how he came to write Lost Girls moore recalled it had something to do with realising that he could write a story about sex WITHOUT the need to feature a swamp creature - that made me titter too.
 
  
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