Look, Alan Moore is a genius. Hands down, he is the best writer who has ever worked for comics. Just From Hell, or V for Vendetta (my personal favourite), alone would make that first statement true, without looking at anything else.
It’s not just comics though. His novel Voice Of The Fire is challenging, and rewarding. And the series of spoken word “magick” performances that he has given are brilliant (at least the judging from the recorded CD versions ).
People think he’s a little nuts because he sometimes worships a snake in his basement. And, I guess, he looks a little scary in some of the promotional material.
However, most of what sounds kooky in a sound bite makes a lot more sense when Moore has the time to really explain what he’s talking about. The best example is the long interview he did with Eddie Campbell in the second issue of the ill-fated Egomania, but you can get glimpses in other interviews, like the two-parter at Ninth Art, or the long interview in Locus last July, or the Salon piece (if you can deal with getting a day pass).
Anyway, the new news on Moore is… well, let me quote from the CBR piece:
Thursday evening in London comics creator Alan Moore found himself the subject of an interview on the weekly Chain Reaction radio program as broadcast on BBC Radio 4, their talk and issue station. The concept behind the program is a well-known figure from the entertainment industry begins the series interviewing the person of their choice. Next week the subject from last week’s interview becomes next week’s interviewer and chooses who the new subject will be. Last week saw Stewart Lee, the creator of the hit musical “Jerry Springer: The Opera,” as the subject, so this week it was his turn in the interviewers chair and he chose one of his comic book heroes, Alan Moore.
On that page you can read a transcript of the first interview (the Lee-Moore one). Or, for the next six days, you can stream the interview from the BBC website.
With the time limit on that stream, and the fact that it’s Real audio, it’s really too bad that someone hasn’t made an MP3 version of the interview available, so you could listen in your car or on your portable MP3 player.
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