Wow, what a guy... I'm 17 and I've only just started reading a lot of his stuff and I feel like I've learned more about life from his stories than from my education. I've found myself thinking a lot about life and the world we live in in a much broader sense. Finding it a bit hard to express myself but I love this guy and his graphic novels - they're 10 times better than watching a movie and feel more personal in my opinion.
I know we aren't actually but dawg I feel so old cause I saw this comment, saw "7 years ago" and thought, aw damn, he must be a bit older now being 17 7 years ago... I was turning 17 7 years ago. But fr, Alan Moore is truly one of the greatest writers I'v ever read and definitely to grace the comic medium. Such a thoughtful dude, if you haven't yet in the last 7 years tho: Check out Grant Morrison's run on Animal Man. I think their style and philosophy will hit with you
and by the way, I just noticed that this is where Pop Will Eat Itself got their sample "Television, Movies, Comics" for "Shortwave Transmission on 'Up to the Minuteman Nine'" from This Is The Day. Nice to finally see it in context.
It's going to be coming out on DVD in America in a couple of months, If you look in last months 'Previews' (The catalog for Diamond Distribution) you should be able to find it in their video section, I've already ordered mine.
this man is such a well-spoken,cultured and high-classed person! i really respect him for showing the world that you can make comics be complex and mature
this is a young, happy, confident in the bright future of his chosen medium and concomitantly his career in said medium, moor... he no longer has the same enthusiasm for comics... and who can blame the guy? hollywood bastardized near enough all of his best work.
Hollywood bastardized his work? I don't know. I have all his work on my bookshelf. Looks the same as it did when I originally purchased it. Hollywood hasn't done anything to my Alan Moore collection.
Moore's Swamp Thing is very Ballardarian. Quote - resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in Ballard’s novels and stories, esp dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments.
"I'm Alan Moore, I'm a comic book messiah for the 1990's". God, I love this guy. My girlfriend has just given me Lost Girls for my birthday and there's absolutely nothing this bloke did I haven't enjoyed. It's suprising to see how he has been consistent with his opininions (not 100% consistent but, what the hell...). Where does this video come from? Never heard about it!
Amazing how relevant the things he talks about still are. Maybe even moreso. This is 21years ago, and we're still dealing with the problems he speaks of.
At roughly 9:00 Alan remarks something similar to that in the future, kids would not get their information from 'traditional' sources but from more 'vulgar' ones. With the newspapers dying and the internet dominating everything else, it's interesting to see Moore be a prophet once again.
Hee hee hee...I love his attitude at the end of this thing...combination of hippy easiness, punk disrespect and yuppy self-confidence. And not a single HINT of nastiness or spite. Fantastic bloke.
alan moore is such a genuis he may look like a emo type heavey meatal person but he is such a genuis he is so smart probly the best comic wrtier in histroy period end of story ALAN MOORE IS THE BEST.
"In one episode of swamp thing we had an entire tropical rainforest bursting up through the streets of New York and smothering the city in vegetation. In the resultant chaos and carnage all the animals escaped from the zoo. So that you have parakeets roosting on top of street lamps, and tigers padding through the cosmetics department of your local chain store. All that we were trying to suggest is that although mankind can cover nature and smother the wilderness with a layer of concrete and cement, even though mankind can erect huge, powerful, and impressive looking buildings; that underneath out feet, underneath the very pipes and the very cables; nature is still there, the wilderness is still there. And although man may boast of having conquered nature, that is not the case, for if nature were to shrug, or to merely raise its eyebrow, then we should all be gone."
I was just thinking, maybe the reason we seem to be so willing to expect that nature will always be there, and will always serve us, is because that's the relationship many children have with their parent. To a relative helpless child, the parent has illimitable powers, and always takes responsibility for the child's well-being. I wonder, if parents let their children have more responsibility for themselves, if the populace would be more ecologically responsible as adults.
@kriahambul Hahaha, I can assure you, I suffer from no mental illness. But Alan has introduced a deeper literary element to the medium of comics, and has made it accessible for people of all ages world wide. I think that is definitely commendable, especially looking at all the topics he has covered (anarchism/government, environmentalism, nuclear war and British colonialism).
I got mine a couple of weeks ago, It's well worth ordering for any Alan Moore fans, It's on a region 0 DVD so compatability shouldn't be a problem, It also has a making of featurette, Director interviews, And commentary etc, Plus interviews with Melinda Gebbie, Dave Gibbons, David Lloyd, Kevin O'Neill and some others, You can order it on Amazon or at shadowsnake dot com.
i love his writing. his writing nobodty will ever do. his writing is almost like potery. it makes since when you read it its not like frank miller who gives you one sotry. alan moore gives you something realstic and makes since out of and aslo adds a litle bit of whats goging on in real life.
Moore's series, "Miracle Man" is wonderful, but hard to find as it's in a legal quagmire. You might like his recent works, done for "America's Best Comics" -- a part of DC Comics: "Promethea" is a deep mix of Wonder Woman and Doctor Strange. "Top Ten" presents a vast city, where everyone is a superhero. "Tom Strong" is a lighthearted look at a pulp character, like a Doc Savage. Great stuff! ^_^ Swamp Thing was his first DC series -- and he recreated the character as an Earth-elemental.
These videos are great thanks. If you know somebody or can do it yourself you could run the audio through a cleaning tool to remove excess noise, it's not that hard. They can be a bit harsh on the ears. But again thanks for these.
Amazing as usual, Alan Moore is one the greatest writer that ever work in the medium, there is Neil Gaiman but still I prefer Alan moore, because I have read more of Moore than Gaiman, anyway thanks master for your wonderful philosophy, writing and mystic
@MavsWorld Haha, excellent point. Moore is an avid reader and an intellectual, and his writing indicates that. In what I've read of Alan Moore so far, however, at least he educates the reader as the story progresses, so that the reader isn't left in the dark wondering "What in God's name is he talking about?" It's all really thought provoking, which is why I love his work.
I spent ten minutes trying to remember what it was and why I knew it. Brace yourself: it's Tears for Fears, from Songs from The Big Chair. I forget the track, though. "Listen", possibly.
Was I the only person who laughed when Alan Moore said you don't need schooling in the classics to read comics. Maybe you don't need it, but with his comics at least it really helps.
Then he should be the man to direct a Swamp Thing movie. They're gonna do it regardless, so I just want who ever is going to helm the project be knowledgeable about the source material.
i think it was swamp thing 1 or 2 you can find them on amazon. swamp thing 2 is out of print. so that one is gonna be hard. iam having turble find that one.
he is such a great writer and he did such an amazing job on from hell much better then watchmen. watchmen is a great book but i think from hell was way better he is such a great comic writer probly one of the best
30 pence? When's the last time Alan bought a comic, I actually stopped buying comics when I was a kid because of how much they cost and how fast they were read, wasn't worth paying for. I like the big graphic novels though since they take longer to read they're more worth buying
I thought the movie version of Watchmen was wonderful. Say 80%+ successful. I would suggest that you read the graphic novel first -- it's considered a classic. And you'll pick up on little details in the movie. A bit of a flaw of the movie, is that is has to condense so much info, that it is very hard for some people to digest the first time, if they are not familiar with the comic book world it presents. I look forward to the Director's Cut.
Cor. Them days when you could pay around thirty pence for a comic, eh? I can remember the Beano being forty pence when I was about nine...no doubt it's some ridiculous price now, and comes with ASBO hoodie ipod ringtones as a free gift. (Christ alive, I sound old)
Haha this one's more wacky and playful, he's doing a talking to himself bit like the one in Alice in Sunderland by Bryan Talbot. Or Bryan Talbot was inspired by this. Or neither, they just happened to have the same idea, maybe.
Wow, what a guy... I'm 17 and I've only just started reading a lot of his stuff and I feel like I've learned more about life from his stories than from my education. I've found myself thinking a lot about life and the world we live in in a much broader sense. Finding it a bit hard to express myself but I love this guy and his graphic novels - they're 10 times better than watching a movie and feel more personal in my opinion.
Try out The Killing Joke and The Bojefferies.
Moore is easily one of the greatest writers not just comics, of the 20th century. 💯
I know we aren't actually but dawg I feel so old cause I saw this comment, saw "7 years ago" and thought, aw damn, he must be a bit older now being 17 7 years ago... I was turning 17 7 years ago.
But fr, Alan Moore is truly one of the greatest writers I'v ever read and definitely to grace the comic medium. Such a thoughtful dude, if you haven't yet in the last 7 years tho: Check out Grant Morrison's run on Animal Man. I think their style and philosophy will hit with you
I dream that in my life time, Alan Moore will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
He deserve the price, but the price doesn't deserve him
Man, listen to that sweet 80's synthesizer.
It’s “listen” by Tears for Fears. Songs From The Big Chair album on UA-cam.
and by the way, I just noticed that this is where Pop Will Eat Itself got their sample "Television, Movies, Comics" for "Shortwave Transmission on 'Up to the Minuteman Nine'" from This Is The Day. Nice to finally see it in context.
The good old days when Alan Moore was happy
foreal i swear
It's going to be coming out on DVD in America in a couple of months, If you look in last months 'Previews'
(The catalog for Diamond Distribution)
you should be able to find it in their
video section, I've already ordered mine.
"Do I see an inter ego problem creeping in here?" The dude is talking to himself. Gotta love Moore
My funking god, i just fucking love this bastard. He is bloddy briliant.
I love how Allan is so dark. I feel like his view and my view on the world are one in the same.
this man is such a well-spoken,cultured and high-classed person! i really respect him for showing the world that you can make comics be complex and mature
I love the way he explains why comics are great. Freaking brilliant!
This documentary is just fantastic. Thank you so much for uploading it!
this is a young, happy, confident in the bright future of his chosen medium and concomitantly his career in said medium, moor... he no longer has the same enthusiasm for comics... and who can blame the guy? hollywood bastardized near enough all of his best work.
Comics are dead now
Not true
Hollywood bastardized his work? I don't know. I have all his work on my bookshelf. Looks the same as it did when I originally purchased it. Hollywood hasn't done anything to my Alan Moore collection.
it was comic corporations who turned him jaded, long before any adaptations of his work on the big screen
@@RockandrollNegro
Hey, look at that, it’s an adult.
Moore's Swamp Thing is very Ballardarian.
Quote - resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in Ballard’s novels and stories, esp dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes and the psychological effects of technological, social or environmental developments.
"I'm Alan Moore, I'm a comic book messiah for the 1990's".
God, I love this guy. My girlfriend has just given me Lost Girls for my birthday and there's absolutely nothing this bloke did I haven't enjoyed. It's suprising to see how he has been consistent with his opininions (not 100% consistent but, what the hell...).
Where does this video come from? Never heard about it!
This is pretty bizarre and undoubtedly awesome.
He's with out question one of the most brilliant authors in comic book history!
I love the set up for this where he's talking on stage to the audience (himself). Very well done.
Good vid. Didn't think I'd watch this again but it's good and I'm glad I'm watching it one last time.
Thanks for posting!
Alan Moore is THE MAN!
~K
Amazing how relevant the things he talks about still are. Maybe even moreso. This is 21years ago, and we're still dealing with the problems he speaks of.
The music is awesome
Yes! i would love to know who is responsible for the music. It's fantastic
Oh shit! Thanks, it's time to hit the Tears For Fears deep cuts
At roughly 9:00 Alan remarks something similar to that in the future, kids would not get their information from 'traditional' sources but from more 'vulgar' ones. With the newspapers dying and the internet dominating everything else, it's interesting to see Moore be a prophet once again.
observations, insight and values that are timeless and universal and still valid, alan moore genius.
Alan Moore!!!
All day, every day!!!
The young Alan as ecologist - nice message.
He should return to these themes more often.
(Nice shades, man)
Hee hee hee...I love his attitude at the end of this thing...combination of hippy easiness, punk disrespect and yuppy self-confidence. And not a single HINT of nastiness or spite. Fantastic bloke.
i really like swamp thing but was kinda iffy on it at first but i'm starting to appreciate the horror anthology aspect of it. read while on drugs
Wow, I found this my serendipity.
alan moore is such a genuis he may look like a emo type heavey meatal person but he is such a genuis he is so smart probly the best comic wrtier in histroy period end of story ALAN MOORE IS THE BEST.
He's not the 1990's comic book messiah. He's a very naughty boy.
Alan Moore would be able to implode Morris' mind with his magick. I'd love to see that fight played out in a comic mini-series though.
"In one episode of swamp thing we had an entire tropical rainforest bursting up through the streets of New York and smothering the city in vegetation.
In the resultant chaos and carnage all the animals escaped from the zoo.
So that you have parakeets roosting on top of street lamps, and tigers padding through the cosmetics department of your local chain store.
All that we were trying to suggest is that although mankind can cover nature and smother the wilderness with a layer of concrete and cement, even though mankind can erect huge, powerful, and impressive looking buildings; that underneath out feet, underneath the very pipes and the very cables; nature is still there, the wilderness is still there.
And although man may boast of having conquered nature, that is not the case, for if nature were to shrug, or to merely raise its eyebrow, then we should all be gone."
thanks for uploading this!
I was just thinking, maybe the reason we seem to be so willing to expect that nature will always be there, and will always serve us, is because that's the relationship many children have with their parent. To a relative helpless child, the parent has illimitable powers, and always takes responsibility for the child's well-being.
I wonder, if parents let their children have more responsibility for themselves, if the populace would be more ecologically responsible as adults.
I will read anything by this man.
is this the documentary thats mentioned in the first The Moon And Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre Of Marvels recording?
It's so strange to me that he looks his age here (30s) yet he also looks like he's been in his 60s for about 30 years
fantastic! thank you!
@kriahambul Hahaha, I can assure you, I suffer from no mental illness. But Alan has introduced a deeper literary element to the medium of comics, and has made it accessible for people of all ages world wide. I think that is definitely commendable, especially looking at all the topics he has covered (anarchism/government, environmentalism, nuclear war and British colonialism).
I got mine a couple of weeks ago, It's well worth ordering for any Alan Moore fans, It's on a region 0 DVD so compatability shouldn't be a problem,
It also has a making of featurette,
Director interviews, And commentary etc,
Plus interviews with Melinda Gebbie,
Dave Gibbons, David Lloyd, Kevin O'Neill
and some others,
You can order it on Amazon or at
shadowsnake dot com.
i love the beginning song its just great and Alan Moore were do i start just amazing and i just love comic books
brilliant documentary
this video was made about 12 years before promethea was being published.
Alan is a legend
i love his writing. his writing nobodty will ever do. his writing is almost like potery. it makes since when you read it its not like frank miller who gives you one sotry. alan moore gives you something realstic and makes since out of and aslo adds a litle bit of whats goging on in real life.
Man that intro music is nostalgic
Moore's series, "Miracle Man" is wonderful, but hard to find as it's in a legal quagmire.
You might like his recent works, done for "America's Best Comics" -- a part of DC Comics: "Promethea" is a deep mix of Wonder Woman and Doctor Strange.
"Top Ten" presents a vast city, where everyone is a superhero. "Tom Strong" is a lighthearted look at a pulp character, like a Doc Savage. Great stuff! ^_^
Swamp Thing was his first DC series -- and he recreated the character as an Earth-elemental.
These videos are great thanks. If you know somebody or can do it yourself you could run the audio through a cleaning tool to remove excess noise, it's not that hard. They can be a bit harsh on the ears. But again thanks for these.
Alan Moore is not the 90's comic book messiah, he is the comic book messiah of entire history.
'...Would you say you have sort of a messiah complex?'
'Well i wouldn't cut my hair this way if i didn't.' XD
Great stuff!
9:21 - "Television, Movies, Comics". Always wondered where the Poppies got that.
Amazing as usual, Alan Moore is one the greatest writer that ever work in the medium, there is Neil Gaiman but still I prefer Alan moore, because I have read more of Moore than Gaiman, anyway thanks master for your wonderful philosophy, writing and mystic
I love the part where Alan reads the excerpt from "Swamp Thing"
Oh and it's a 2 disk DVD set with a booklet on the film that has an forward
by Michael Moorcock.
@MavsWorld Haha, excellent point. Moore is an avid reader and an intellectual, and his writing indicates that. In what I've read of Alan Moore so far, however, at least he educates the reader as the story progresses, so that the reader isn't left in the dark wondering "What in God's name is he talking about?" It's all really thought provoking, which is why I love his work.
Thanks for this... try uploading Mindscape of Alan Moore...
Damn right!
I've been looking for a collection of his works on Swamp Thing, and havent had any luck.
I spent ten minutes trying to remember what it was and why I knew it. Brace yourself: it's Tears for Fears, from Songs from The Big Chair. I forget the track, though. "Listen", possibly.
"My name is Alan Moore, I sing heavy metal songs" XD
What is the name of this song. Please someone help me
awesome that this starts with a Tears for Fears song!
hey, which tears for fears song is it?
"Listen"
Esse cara é muito loco, ele é o cara!
'' I could save the mankind , I can do anything , anything ''
I like him.
I think I actually love him.
Alan Moore talking (and insulting) to himself should really have been a lot more trippy than it is.
"My name's Alan Moore... I write comics"
Perfect way to end the video lol.
where did you find his documentry ?
can i buy it one dvd ?
Does anybody which swamp thing Moore is reading all that great stuff from? I'd really like to get it...
Swamp thing issue 34 she loves me issue,36,the nuke face, and I want to say either issue 23 or 22 for the red world.
@@anthonycorcino6700 thank you...13 years ago...and an answer came 13 minutes ago
@@drunkdonutboy That's crazy. I'm glad to help sorry it took 13 years haha.
reminds me of steve coogan's character Saxondale
Was I the only person who laughed when Alan Moore said you don't need schooling in the classics to read comics. Maybe you don't need it, but with his comics at least it really helps.
Would I have to pick up a bunch of seperate comics, or is there a Watchmen-esque graphic novel version?
Jesus Christ he's young in this one.
What song is being used in the background?
Neil Patel It's a Tears for Fears track. It's off their first album Song's From the Big Chair.
Some what Nihilistic always awesome
Then he should be the man to direct a Swamp Thing movie. They're gonna do it regardless, so I just want who ever is going to helm the project be knowledgeable about the source material.
You know what I like best about Alan Moore? He would never give you any of the 'trust your story, follow your heart' BS Neil Gaiman gives you.
eh? What about Promethea? and the whole ABC project?
i think it was swamp thing 1 or 2 you can find them on amazon. swamp thing 2 is out of print. so that one is gonna be hard. iam having turble find that one.
19 bought me a beer!!!!!
actully no the movie watchmen is great i think they only change a few things around like the ending for one but it keeps 95 % to the comic book
he is such a great writer and he did such an amazing job on from hell much better then watchmen. watchmen is a great book but i think from hell was way better he is such a great comic writer probly one of the best
30 pence? When's the last time Alan bought a comic, I actually stopped buying comics when I was a kid because of how much they cost and how fast they were read, wasn't worth paying for. I like the big graphic novels though since they take longer to read they're more worth buying
Some of those comics cost Thousands now!
this documentary is from 87' you jackass.
"When's the last time Alan bought a comic"
laff
Hmm, just wondering, is this a standalone documentary, or is it a series of documentaries?
great documentary. im reading swamp thing now it's so fucking wierd
Alan Moore is god
@zeppelin8 of all people, especially alan moore does not care about a crappy prize.
The Movie is good but the comic is even better, so read IT NOW !!!!!! :P
30p for a comic. Wow, those were the days.
wizard beaver
Alan Moore has a far less deeper voice than a few years later.
he perfected the character he played over time
Lol 30p comics. They cost like $40 now.
I thought the movie version of Watchmen was wonderful. Say 80%+ successful.
I would suggest that you read the graphic novel first -- it's considered a classic. And you'll pick up on little details in the movie. A bit of a flaw of the movie, is that is has to condense so much info, that it is very hard for some people to digest the first time, if they are not familiar with the comic book world it presents. I look forward to the Director's Cut.
is he still alive
Lol
Cor. Them days when you could pay around thirty pence for a comic, eh? I can remember the Beano being forty pence when I was about nine...no doubt it's some ridiculous price now, and comes with ASBO hoodie ipod ringtones as a free gift.
(Christ alive, I sound old)
Haha this one's more wacky and playful, he's doing a talking to himself bit like the one in Alice in Sunderland by Bryan Talbot. Or Bryan Talbot was inspired by this. Or neither, they just happened to have the same idea, maybe.
Alan Moore "hates doing interviews" my ass.