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The funny thing is that Alan Moore hates to talk about film and television, because, as he explains later in our interview, both “have a lot to answer for.” He’s not talking about how they’ve distilled his densely researched, intricate tales of socio-historical interrogation, like “From Hell” and “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,” into narrowcasted popcorn movies. Instead, he means the way they’ve had such an impact on human consciousness that many people were only able to articulate the horrific reality of 9/11 by comparing it to a disaster film. Moore clearly believes that the same mechanism has foisted a deadly, unwanted and unnecessary war upon the world. “Television and movies have short-circuited reality,” he asserts.

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early comics reading, breaking into British then American comics, limitations of superheroes, changing attitude to Hollywood, becoming a magician. 9/11 events, current political situation, politics, the media and tyranny, actors as politicians, G.W. Bush and fundamentalism, 9/11 and Watchmen, body as metaphor, the Novel and Class structure, magic, alchemy, the need for complexity in his work.

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Originally published in Strange Things Are Happening , vol. 1, no. 2, May/June 1988. Note: “Vincent Eno” was Richard Norris, later one half of dance/ambient outfit The Grid with Dave Ball. See also the Watchmen round table discussion on this site. Amidst smouldering heaps of superlatives flung in the direction of the comic genre of late, one name stands head and shoulders above the crowd: ALAN MOORE.

Alan Moore interview, 1988

‘With Dr. Manhattan we were thinking about the implications of a nuclear superhero’, explains Alan. ‘All the nuclear superheroes that existed in comics previously have been ones who, by the great gift of radioactivity, suddenly find themselves not with leukaemia or some form of tumour, but with miraculous powers. Other than shooting bolts out of their hands willy-nilly, there were never any of the implications of nuclear science and particularly quantum science – they’re not considered. We’re now forty years post-Einstein and it’s time we tried to confront some of the things Einstein said. On a quantum level, as I understand it, reality does not work! Things can be in two places at once; they can move from point A to point B without passing through the distance that separates those points… and this is what Dr. Manhattan does. Time, in a post-Einsteinian universe, cannot be regarded in the same way: from what Einstein says, it is possible that the future and past must exist now, for wha by morgangh Jul 12

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From Mars’ Galle crater to comics, literature, music, politics and even quantum physics, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons borrowed from a stunning wealth of sources to create Watchmen , a work that’s generally accepted as the greatest graphic novel of all time. With Zack Snyder’s cinematic adaptation of Watchmen hitting theaters Friday as 2009′s must-see comic book movie, it’s time for a deep dive into that fountain of influences. Watchmen ‘s origin story starts with characters from Charlton Comics , which DC Comics acquired in 1985. Moore and Gibbons’ brilliant revisions of Charlton’s stable of heroes — characters like The Question, created by the legendary Steve Ditko — became immortal copies of their original sources. Moore’s literary influences didn’t stop at comics, though. He cited greats like William S.