Alan Moore Returns to Superheroes - IMAGE Comics Style + Quentin Tarantino = Spawn: Blood Feud!

[@adriananthony602]

If anyone hasn’t seen the documentaries covering Alan Moore and Grant Morrison- both can be found on KZbin. Talking to the gods, the film covering Grant, shows examples of his personal thumbnails for his writing. Moore’s Dreamscapes (I believe) is equally amazing.

[@benhillman8384]

Mostly reading European comics in the last decade I’d sort of slowly come round to the idea that my favourite practitioners are folks who (even when they aren’t,) *could* be both writer and artist in some rosy-eyed idea of a more singular vision. For the longest time I’d thought of Moore as an outlier from this until seeing the r.crumb looking pages he drew for American Splendor. Suddenly the overly detailed descriptions in the scripts made perfect sense - of course artists are better at writing for other artists duh! Heck when even what seemed like a gimmick in a pop-star like Gerard Way writing for Gabriel Ba emerged as a former career as capable illustrator that just didn’t pan out.

[@frazzetafan]

The Morrison doc is Great

[@nicholasbielik7156]

Yeah, the first volume of Writer’s On Comic Scriptwriting (published by Titan Books) has more examples of Morrison’s layouts. I don’t know about Alan Moore, but Grant Morrison makes it clear that for him the layouts come before the script. He notes dialog that occurs to him as he’s laying out the comic and then he types up the script and send that to the artist who never sees the layouts. Morrison’ s scripts are usually one page of script for each page of the comic as opposed to Moore’s voluminous tome scripts.

[@davidvega7773]

I will watch it thank u

[@DJJunkfoodJay]

I would love to see an Alan Moore script/sketch Swamp Thing Omnibus.

[@raydillon]

Did not know Alan Moore drew. I bought this back in the day, but only knew Alan Moore from his Spawn work at that point. ha. Probably didn't even know the process of making comics yet. This was so cool to see now.

[@dopecomics]

Anyone know of an online archive of Alan Moore's art? If they're still hidden within sparse publications they should be collected.

[@J.S.3259]

Moore drew a 2-page Harvey Pekar story in the 2000s. Really terrific

[@josetxulopezcasado2521]

One step closer to having Ed adapting the four-part double-sized Warchild scripts Alan sent Rob Liefeld and he was unable to draw!!

[@geoffyuendesign]

Alan calls Image comics crack cocaine in a Comics Journal issue - the one with the portrait of himself done by Bill Sienkiewicz.

[@evanlindsey1100]

I can't remember where I saw it, but there was an article somewhere that showed Moore's thumbnail layouts for an issue of Violator with a comparison of the final art by Bart Sears. It might have been Wizard, Hero Illustrated, or something from Image, but I'm leaning towards one of those magazines. It was really interesting that Sears followed Moore's thumbnails fairly closely.

[@GoShanePlays]

This was in the back of one of the Violator issues

[@nmj1937]

Batman RIP is one of my favorite things by Tony Daniel, it was part of Grant Morrison’s Batman run.

[@TamSamuel]

Did you guys hear that Sergio Aragones is drawing a He-Man comic coming out in February? Should be interesting and would make for a good video.

[@alanlawrence6584]

Actually, a Kermit the Frog puppet features pretty prominently in a Larry Stroman/Peter David issue of X-Factor a few years earlier. I think that sort of intellectual property stuff was less of a risk at the time--it was probably much harder for people to turn up these uses of copyrighted material, I suppose?

[@SpyderDragonDude]

Alan Moore can draw?! Grant Morrison can draw?!?!?!

[@raydillon]

Ha, I reacted the same way.

[@sm1thsisdead]

Definitely a stinker of a comic, but seeing Alan Moore’s layouts is so cool.