Alan Moore | Watchmen and Batman: The Killing Joke Creator on Imagination (Part 3)

This is part 3 of an exclusive How To Academy event.
Few figures make such a seismic impact on their artistic medium that they transform its reputation from childish pulp entertainment to a vital and exhilarating creative form, capable of exploring the great mysteries of metaphysics, science, and the human spirit - but Alan Moore is one. Coming together with sculptor, performance artist, novelist and poet Brian Catling, this conversation will restore your faith in the power of art to transform life.
Brian Catling was born in London in 1948. He is a former Professor of Fine Art at the Ruskin School, Oxford, and is an acclaimed performance artist and sculptor. His Vorrh trilogy is followed this year by Earwig, which is being filmed by Lucile Hadžihalilovic. On KZbin, Brian has been featured on The Centre for Fiction, SFF180, GOldmark Gallery, PPermaculture Magazine and John Rogers.

Alan Moore, born in Northampton in 1953, is a writer, performer, recording artist, activist and magician. His comic-book work includes Lost Girls (2009) with Melinda Gebbie, From Hell (1991) with Eddie Campbell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (for which he won a Bram Stoker Award in 2000) with Kevin O’Neill. He has worked with director Mitch Jenkins on the Show Pieces cycle of short films and on forthcoming feature film The Show, while his novels include Voice of the Fire (1996) and his epic Jerusalem (2016). He lives in Northampton with his wife and collaborator Melinda Gebbie. On KZbin, Alan has been featured on Wisecrack, AlanMooreVids, Alan Moore Archive, The Top Comics, John Higgs, faberandfaber, Lex Records, Fact Fiend - With Karl Smallwood, Channel 4 News, Crack Magazine, ComicTropes, Nottingham Contemporary, Go! El monitor geek, Matt Draper, AlloCine, Comic Book Girl 19, Cartonist Kayfabe and Rapid Trailer.

Robin Ince is the co-presenter of Radio 4’s multiple award winning The Infinite Monkey Cage. He spent 2019 appearing across the world in the Universal tour with Brian Cox - travelling from LA to Oslo, Wellington to Aberdeen and ending up in Reykjavik after shows at the 02 and Wembley Arena. Robin co-wrote How to Build a Universe (part 1) with Brian Cox and his most recent book is I’m a Joke and So Are You, a book about why we become who we become and how we deal with it. He has spoken at TED and TEDx, has featured on BBC Radio 4 and Richard Herring’s podcasts on topics as far reaching as Creationism and Wonder, to Ricky Gervais and Chaos, and is the founder of The Cosmic Shambles Network.

[@ryansizemore5064]

I wish Alan Moore was interviewed more. I always get so much insight from this remarkable human being.

[@josephkelly6681]

This gentleman died months after this video and I am so honored he took time to talk about creativity even with the end so close.

[@rondavison8475]

At minute 14:00 the secret is reveled... learn facts in context once, then abandon so that tabula rasa returns. When context triggers latent memory, Eureka moments abound. Because likelihood of more // pathways resonating raise the ways the information can be retrieved, even if one path doesn't reveal the whole answer itself. The synaptic fingerprint is rebuilt, with feedback reinforcement, to strengthen weaker memories-paths (local resonances, sound, movement, color...)

[@polosullivan2310]

Damn… Brian Catling died 5 months after this interview. Great interview, hitting a lot of important points that will resonate.

[@estacoda545]

I was just about to post this. I only just discovered that. So sad.

[@vc8963]

Creative thinking is usually applied creative problem solving, often for rational problems and often in a work office. Imagination isn’t necessarily applied problem solving; imagination to create just because is perfectly okay without a boss yelling at you to do it on demand. Rather imagination is often when it is not on demand in a shower

[@JamesHaney]

Thank you for this , Gentlemen! BIG NUMBERS is still a missing Masterpiece. 🖖♾

[@kirtburdick]

Great conversation! Thanks for posting this.

[@JL-uq6qe]

Amazing interview thank you !!

[@gnupf]

"Demons are unrecognized gods" - Joseph Campbell

[@warlockofwordschannel7901]

Excellent quote.

[@VladthePainter]

Same here 7:35. I listen to the audiobook while reading it on my Kindle, needed for the larger print. What a work! What a thick work of descriptive imagination --

[@audiogus2651]

7:09 woah, dude conjured an email out of thin air.

[@Khemith_Demon_Hours]

Great talk.

[@wallacelovecraft8942]

I enjoyed the talk.

[@CamRebires]

9:52 something about this made Alan seem so young here lol

[@localmo88]

Interesting Alan said completely "Random" element.

[@luxinvictus9018]

Lol, enochian tablets hanging in the back. Bruh knows ;)

[@escapematrixenterprisejacq7810]

I am stricken with dyslexia also