Thank you so much for sharing it! I'm delighted to hear you had a good time with it!

This is beautiful! I've seen a few of these really charming anecdotes, people meeting Moore when they were young and him saying something perfect; I hope they get raked up into a collection someday.

Dang, I've never seen a copy of Birth Caul out in the wild, nor Small Killing. This is a great collection.

Good lord that's a perfect descriptor...

Even before the Watchmen fiasco, Moore was consistently observant of and vocal about IP protection in comics. The only thing as consistent as the quality of his work has been his championing of artists' rights.

How'd "V" hold up on reread? I've been reporting on Alan Moore for a while lately and it's kind of astonishing to be reminded of how young he was when he wrote that, and people still seem to keep it shelved on par with his best work.

Agreed! I've been researching a profile of Moore for The Metropolitan Review and reading a few long passages from that script: definitely felt like reading a private memo.

"Different horses, different courses," as he said about choosing collaborators, finding the right one for a given project.

Sliiightly agree.

There's a new long profile about Alan Moore at The Metropolitan Review -- he's way calmer these days, working on novels, but there's some deep-diving into his early days practicing magic, summoning demons, that kinda thing...
www.metropolitanreview.org/p/giant-of-t...

I was just writing about this!

I reported a long profile of Alan Moore's forthcoming projects and, in my research and interviews, I found people describing his smoking as "saturating," "constant," "frightening" and "staggering"

I just reported a long profile of Alan Moore and did the same thing -- but only with select scenes. The one that was most jarring, after 15 years, was that Dr. Manhattan sequence. The effects are just...distractingly bad.

But yeah, a weird study in loyalty-gone-wrong.

I haven't seen much about them, but I remember they were described as "backup strips" in his biography. Early-career stuff. Curiously I don't think he's said much about Star Wars in ensuing years...

Ah, that makes sense. I've been researching Alan Moore for a long profile and, as I've been haunting the subreddit, I've been surprised at how often people post photos of these obscure collectors' editions, particularly of From Hell and Providence.

Very! Ive never seen that edition before, I dont think.

Is that one of the limited collectors' editions?

Michael! Of course I remember you! I've been a die hard Franzen fan for 15 years and you're still the last person I discussed him with lol

Thank you for the kind words! What are you up to these days?

Thanks for saying so, and for sharing the piece!

Thanks for saying so! And kudos to you for taking an hour or so to read a lengthy piece about an author you weren't familiar with--we should all be so open minded

Just glad I kept you reading, Matthew. Thanks for sharing the article!