Too Busy Thinking About My Comics II
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David Lloyd has V and Evey - from his & Alan Moore’s V For Vendetta - send their best wishes to the UK’s Comicana 82. Odd to think that VFV was then “just” a serial running in the relatively little-read Warrior magazine …
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Two takes on The Joker by Brian Bolland, as accompanied his interview in 1988’s FA #103. It was, of course, the year of the release of Bolland and Alan Moore’s “The Killing Joke”.
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Alan Davis has his and Alan Moore’s D.R. & Quinch take a stand on the matter of student loans, from the UKCAC89 booklet.
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The Joker, as drawn by Brian Bolland for the cover of 1988’s FA #103. It was, of course, the year of the release of his and Alan Moore’s “The Killing Joke”.
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Steve Parkhouse takes his and Alan Moore’s Bojeffries Saga to the beach, from the UKCAC89 booklet. How can there not be a collected Bojeffries Saga ready to exchange good coin of the realm for?
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“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”
Andrew Carnegie
(Panel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons et al, From Watchmen #11, 1987)
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An Ian Gibson sketch of he and Alan Moore’s Halo Jones, from Fantazia #12, 1991
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Flyer for a Summer 1982 comic mart in London, which, as you see, featured an amazing array of British comics talent. The flyer was tucked into a fanzine I bought last week. Though hardly an important example of memorabilia, of course, I can’t help but wonder how many of these throwaway handouts can possibly have survived? (And what can I possibly have been doing on Saturday June 5th 1982 that was more interesting than this, considering that I lived just 40 minutes away from Westminster at the time?)
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A Steve Bissette sketch of Alan Moore for the latter’s interview in Amazing Heroes #58, 1984, which was placed at the back of the magazine, Moore not yet being “Alan Moore!!!” to the US market.
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“When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honourable to reach the second or even the third rank.”
Cicero
(Panels by Curt Swan, Alan Moore & Kurt Schaffenberger, from Superman #423, 1986)
