February 2012
27 posts
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”
― Isaac Asimov
Alan Moore on culture and responsibility
“I think our mistake has been thinking, in the 20th and 21st century, of the big cultural providers, like television or Hollywood, as culture. They’re not. They’re commercial entities which may occasionally or accidentally produce culture. But, they’re not culture. We are culture. Just ordinary people, what they do. You’ve only got to look at all sorts of areas around the world at ...
Alan Moore on nostalgia
“Nostalgia, if handled wrong, can prove to be nothing more than sloppy and mawkish crap. In my opinion, the central appeal of nostalgia is that all this stuff in the past is gone. It’s finished. We’ll never see it again… and this is where the incredible poignance of nostalgia really comes from.”
Alan Moore, from his original proposal for Marvelman, reprinted in...
Travis “Dr. Monster” Pitts breaks it down for anyone wanting to design movie posters.
Alan Moore on the Next Big Thing
“There’s a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest movements, small press, the creator-owned comics, that seem to be getting some signs of hope for the future,” he says. “All of the genuinely interesting work is being done on the margins, with independent companies,...
Alan Moore's advice to writers
“It is much more exciting and thus creatively energizing if you are attempting something where you are uncertain of its outcome, where you don’t know if it will work or not. And this is only the beginning. Eventually, increasingly confident of your talents to make a workable story out of most anything, you will come to regard being merely unsure of a work’s outcome as far too...
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or...”
– Jim Jarmusch (via megatrip)
“From the audience: Do you actually own Watchmen?
Alan Moore: My understanding...”
– Watchmen panel, moderated by Neil Gaiman, at London’s UK Comic Art Convention, September 21, 1986 (as printed in The Comics Journal #116, July, 1987). (via mistahphil)
Watchmen was not work-for-hire.
“At that point, there had never been a comic book collection that had stayed in print for more than a couple of years. Certainly there hadn’t been one that had stayed in print for nearly twenty years. It seemed to us at the time, as if, you know, this seems fair. Once DC aren’t publishing it any more then the rights revert to us; it’s not like we’re doing work for hire, here. We’re sort of signing...
January 2012
34 posts
WatchThe video for Butch Walker and the Black Widows’ “Synthesizers,” in which Matthew McConaughey reprises his role as David Wooderson from “Dazed and Confused.” I like it.
