Moore, Moore, Moore

After putting down “Voice of the Fire” I went into Moore, Moore, and Moore zone.  Everything I read for several months was Moore, and he did not disappoint.  I ripped through his “Watchmen”, “V for Vendetta”, “Halo Jones”, and other graphics in lightning speed wanting to make sure I started from his early career and became progressive.  Recently I began investigating his somewhat unusual and, at times, unnerving underground newsletter “Dodgem Logic”.  The newspaper is dedicated to an array of styles from government discussions to comic discussion, but the original basis of the collection was Northampton’s impoverished areas that should never have been ignored (Moore).  I even ventured into Lost Girls, a work created with his now wife, Melinda Gebbie.  I say ventured because the piece itself is pretty unusual—who would have thought Alice (from Alice in Wonderland), Dorothy (from The Wizard of Oz) and Wendy (from Peter Pan) would all be thrown into a graphic novel that when described as sexually explicit does not really prepare a reader for just how explicit the content may get (Moore).  Alan Moore takes on the government with scorn in his work V for Vendetta and sees the film subsequently as an ironic disgrace to what the graphic novel was meant to represent (Lamont).  When it comes to Hollywood, Moore is just not impressed.  He has turned down most of the money that he should have made from Watchmen, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and V for Vendetta and has ventured into the indie world of low budget films.  He has continued his writing in recent years with his soon to be released Jerusalem that is rumored to be longer than the bible itself (O Mealoid).  Never shying away from his own path he recently released new comics following his League comics under the title Nemo.

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“Alan Moore.”  Top Shelf Productions.  Topshelf Productions, Inc, n.d. Web. 30 April 2013.

Lamont, Tom.  “Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood.”  The Guardian.  Guardian News and Media, December 2012.  Web. 28 April 2013.

Moore, Alan . "Dodgem Logic." Dodgem Logic. Dodgem Logic, 04 Aug. 2009.                Web. 30 Apr 2013.

Moore, Alan, writer.  Lost Girls.  Art by Melinda Gebbie.  Marietta: Top Shelf Production, 1992.  JPEG file.

Moore, Alan, writer.  Lost Girls.  Art by Melinda Gebbie.  Marietta: Top Shelf Production, 1992.  Print.

Moore, Alan, writer.  V for Vendetta.  Art by David Loyd.  New York: Vertigo, 2008. JPEG file.

O Mealoid, Padraig. "Interview: Alan Moore on Providence, Jerusalem, League and more - Part 1." The Beat.  Comicsbeat.  16 Apr. 2013. Web. 5 May 2013