Alan Moore Interview

Yesterday after I bought the first volume of the graphic novel “Y:The Last Man” I saw this free magazine from Fullybooked with Alan Moore on the cover. Free or not I just had to grab a copy and so I did and i found out that some lucky dudes from Fullybooked have managed to interview the great Alan Moore. Yes, he is a recluse, he hates Hollywood and yes, he is still mad that his “Watchmen” is being adapted into a movie right now, even though Dave Gibbons has already given filmmaker Zach Snyder the thumbs up.

Here are some interesting parts of the Alan Moore interview: (from Fullybooked magazine # 3 Vol. 5)

– ON THE CONTINUING INFLUENCE OF WATCHMEN:

“I think it’s a bit unhealthy that people should still be talking about Watchmen as such an important book twenty five years after its publication…I feel more depression that the rest of the comics industry never TOOK UP THE CHALLENGE, took up the possibilities that were genuinely on offer in Watchmen….”

That was a loaded answer, yes “Watchmen” in its scope continues to be an influential work today in the comics medium as it was un-paralleled and unique in its vision, i believe there are a lot of writers who have taken up that challenge in telling a very different story and actually succeeded …still “Watchmen” is still “Watchmen”….That’s Alan Moore for you.

– ON THE NEW BATMAN MOVIE, WHICH WAS INFLUENCED BY ALAN MOORE AND BRIAN BOLLAND’s GRAPHIC NOVEL, “THE KILLING JOKE”

“yeah it looks like Hollywood, twenty five years after the fact has finally caught up to the idea that, hey you could do these characters really dark. Like I say, it’s an old idea. It’s one that I’d lost interest by 1990, if not considerably before. And the fact that the film industry is still recycling it in 2008, seems to me little short of pitiful”

-ON HIS INFLUENCE ON OTHER WRITERS (like Neil Gaiman)

“Well, very nice of Neil to say that, and i don’t think it’s absolutely true because Neil has brought such an awful lot to comics on his own. But, yeah in his early days he probably picked up a few licks from me. But Neil is his own writer….Garth Ennis has got his own style. He doesn’t seem to be influenced by my fanciness.It’s more traditional comics style, but Garth does it very well….”

-ON WHAT HE WOULD LIKE TO SAY TO HIS LEGIONS OF FANS IN THE PHILIPPINES ( yes, that includes ME )

“Hey, let me see. I mean, well, thank you, first of all I’m really touched to think that stories that were written in a gray part of Northampton in England can actually mean something to people living in very, very different circumstances on the other side of the world”

So, there…anyway one other thing to be happy about, personally was I was able to start reading “Y:The Last Man” last night…I’ll write a review soon as i got done with it….it has 10 volumes so, i better prepare for spending more money on this one…but-I’m sure will be all worth it.

Happy reading.