Alan Moore's New Anthology

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>Surprisingly, once we’d hit upon that central concept of a creepy and liminal cinema that was for some reason showing these unnerving little B-movies, our ideas for the stories we wanted to tell and the storytelling devices we wanted to use seemed to come thick and fast. I think my own main contribution was mentioning an ingeniously-themed anthology of short stories that I’d read by the magnificent Robert Coover which in the prologue established a drunk and despairing manager of a condemned regional cinema, alone in the projection booth on the night before his venue is demolished and maniacally running several films through the projector at once, so that the celluloid scenarios literally melt into each other. The rest of the book is a cinema programme with a cartoon, a documentary short, a main feature, a continuing serial and so on, each one a strange and affecting little vignette that gets its effect from mutating our expectations of these familiar tropes and genres.

>it wasn’t really horror movies we were concerned with so much as the horror of movies: our work in Cinema Purgatorio seems to be focussing in on the uneasy aspects of the way we watch films, with our simultaneous awareness of the lives of the actors and directors and production companies that are going on behind the painted flats, and our conditioned acceptance of cinematic conventions that are in as complete a contradiction of reality as anything that H.P. Lovecraft ever attempted, simply because we’ve grown used to them and barely notice them anymore. This, to us, seems to have opened up a new and unexpected vein of horror stories which are different in their effect to anything that we or the audience have ever seen before. I suppose that if you were looking for a single tenuous precedent in the field of comic storytelling you’d have to go back to an occasional feature in the early days of Mad magazine, and say that Cinema Purgatorio is “Scenes we definitely wouldn’t like to see”.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/02/08/has-the-human-centipede-taught-us-nothing-alan-moore-answers-questions-about-cinema-purgatorio-for-bleeding-cool/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/avatarpress/alan-moores-cinema-purgatorio

>>79687602
>Morrison becomes EiC of Heavy Metal
>Moore starts his own anthology comic in retaliation
wew

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>>79687602
>Max Brooks
>Kieron Gillen
>Christos Gage

>>79687672
to be fair he has been making anthologies long before grant was announced for Heavy Metal

It's a neat concept and I'm looking forward to a horror comic from Moore and O'Neill. It's just too bad the rest of the "talent is pulled from Avatar

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>>79687672
>pleb doesn't know about Dodgem Logic
>thinks it's all about his TV-stealing idol
Anotherrr day in /co/ land, oh well

>>79687602
The art's gonna be shit though. Why the hell do they stick with Avatar anyway? Alternatively, why don't they force Avatar to seek out better artists? Truly a mystery for the modern times

>>79687906

>Why the hell do they stick with Avatar anyway?

Because the company's entire "hook" is letting people write or draw whatever the fuck they want with no interference whatsoever (provided it's not outright illegal).

>>79687906

>Alternatively, why don't they force Avatar to seek out better artists?

It's a third-tier company, so all that's available to them is the leftovers who can't get work at the A and B-levels.

>>79687602
... Did Alan Moore just say something sensible for once? It's like he stopped smoking bad pot for a second and actually made a point.

And hey, I'm all for anthology stuff, so go for it, wizard man.

Jesus christ Alan, brevity is the soul of wit.

I'm not even sure what this is, is it just an ordinary B&W horror anthology or is there something to do with movies going on?

>>79690077
The talk about launching a black and white horror anthology is interspersed with a admittedly reasonable speech about how the industry should avoid stagnation and falling victim to becoming mere fodder for movies and TV.

See, this shit is one of the reasons why Moore grates on me. He's a cranky old man who hates everything, but he has the occasional good point to make, which he ruins by rambling on about bullshit.

>>79687602
>It is the responsibility of genuine artists to create work which is sufficient to their turbulent times, and in my opinion you cannot accomplish this by continually rebooting and recycling the pop culture of the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties.
Right up there with you, Moore.

>writing a throwback to old movies and old horror anthology comics
OH MOORE!

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Moore is really tough because I agree with pretty much everything he says about the industry being cynical and backwards looking and creatively stagnant and unwilling to push further outside of short term gains. Then I read one of his comics and it's just a piece of shit druggy fish rape Lovecraft pastiche with terrible art.

If comics are so shit then either (A) stop writing comics or (B) write comics that aren't shit like you used to. Be the change you want to see Alan. He shits on Morrison for being a sellout company boy but Multiversity is creatively miles ahead and a million times more innovative than anything Moore is doing right now.

>>79690382
It doesn't sound a throw back to those movies and comics, but how they made him feel when he first experienced them

I'm down for Moore doing an anthology, horror makes it sound interesting too

>Moore, Graham, Morrison

you feel that, the anthology wave's a coming.

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> If the ‘war for the new’ has indeed been lost then there is now, officially, no point to the continued existence of our culture or, conceivably, of our species. If the massive asteroid were to hit us now, it wouldn’t be any great loss. Luckily, I don’t think that the situation is anywhere near as bad as that. I mean, what you’re describing wasn’t really a war, was it? It was more the mass capitulation of a generation or so of creators – or ‘content providers’, to use the current terminology – to the fact that, for the most part, they and their culture no longer possessed the capacity to generate new ideas or to bring those ideas to competent fruition. That’s not a war. Having been born in the aftermath of quite a serious war, I can assure you that there’d be a lot more bombsites, ration books and fondly mentioned relatives you never got to meet. No, a closer analogy to what’s happened to culture is more like if we neglected or worked everybody who actually understood, say, farming to death, replaced them with people who had enjoyed farm produce at one point in their lives and who had thought “Well, how hard could that be?”, and had subsequently seen our entire bio-diverse cultural landscape turn into a barren wilderness that yielded only one increasingly nourishment-free variety of potato. A lot of this might well be related to the ease of modern production methods engendering a certain laziness throughout culture, as mentioned above, but it still isn’t a war if we do not have an enemy except our own complacency and inertia.

So what Alan is saying is, this isn't a culture war, it's a culture famine waiting to happen since comic companies keeps farming the same crops of potatoes over and over again?

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>Alan Moore Rebukes Backers, Refuses to Accept Kickstarter Money

>Earlier this month, Avatar Press launched a Kickstarter to fund Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's Cinema Purgatorio,

>But as the funding blew past the original $9100 goal, racking up over $57,000 with 12 days left to go, it seems that Moore has begun to have second thoughts about the commercialization of his latest venture.

>"The rapacious jackals who have sullied the integrity of this once dignified venture must be shown the error of their ways," said Moore in an update to the Kickstarter page. "Henceforth, this project shall be referred to as 'The Original Writer and Kevin O'Neill's Cinema Purgatorio,' as I won't allow my good name to be dredged through the mud by the materialistic designs of these so-called 'crowdfunders.'"

>>79691417
I fucking wish

>>79691513
>But with Moore's sudden change of heart, it's unknown how the project can possibly continue. Officials from Avatar Press reportedly tried to calm Moore down, but the Watchmen scribe threatened to shave his head and beard if they pressed him any further to continue with a project he felt was "creatively and morally compromised."

>"Let this be a lesson to those who would place avarice before art by pledging funds to a project for which I asked them to pledge funds," Moore said in his Kickstarter update. "I cannot be bought. Begone."

>>79691417

Aren't both of Graham's dead already?

>>79691570

Island's getting at least 12 issues, no idea what's going on with 8House except they're retooling it

>>79691570
island is on hiatus but he has been promised 12 issues, 8house is fully dead. They are going to release all the stories they started for it as OGNs now.

>>79687602
>Moore has seen Human Centipede
of fucking course

>>79691603

>They are going to release all the stories they started for it as OGNs now.

MY TRADEWAITING IS JUSTIFIED

>>79691513
>>79691568
What happened exactly?

>>79691629

It's fake anon

>>79691501
>No, a closer analogy to what’s happened to culture is more like if we neglected or worked everybody who actually understood, say, farming to death, replaced them with people who had enjoyed farm produce at one point in their lives and who had thought “Well, how hard could that be?”, and had subsequently seen our entire bio-diverse cultural landscape turn into a barren wilderness that yielded only one increasingly nourishment-free variety of potato


He seems pretty sensible here, better than the usual rant about hating superheroes and claiming to not have read one since the 80's which is a lie since has said he enjoyed Hellboy , Madman, and The Maxx

>>79691629
that is a joke article from outhousers

here are some actual sources: >>79687669

>>79691658
>outhousers
>publish fiction not fact
I knew it.

>>79691639
Yeah that's actually sensible. I think one of the problems is either he's trying to hard to play up an act in mainstream interviews years ago or the interviewers misquoted him.

>>79691639

he's reasonable like 80% of the time people just only read the quotes that are posted for clickbait and act like he's personally attacking them when he doesn't like capes

>>79691639
>which is a lie since has said he enjoyed Hellboy , Madman, and The Maxx
I think he is saying that he doesn't like and hasn't read mainstream (big two) superhero comics, not that he stopped reading all action comics that use some of the trappings associated with capes

>>79687602
>>79687640
>>79687669
I just want to read Code Pru. I don't want to buy this fucking thing

>>79690991
Providence > Multiversity
Fuck off, neckbeard.

I want to read the Moore O'Neill but not anything else in this it all looks terrible.

Goddamn it, also Avatar Press doing a Kickstarter for an Alan Moore comic is a pretty fucked up thing.

>>79692289

Nah.

>>79687906
>The art's gonna be shit though.

It's Kevin O'Neil. Same artist as The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

>>79690991
In the history of Superhero comics Multiversity is nothing that innovative or creatively new

By the way.

>>79692289
You're a fucking idiot fedora if you think anything Moore has done in the last 10 years is worth reading.

>>79692794
Providence is legitimately one of the best comics coming out currently.

>>79692836
Providence is Moore missing the whole point of Lovecraft's body of work again, as he has for the whole of his life.

>>79695918

He's actually one of the few Lovecraft pastiche/homage writers I've read who have actually nailed what Lovecraft was about. Namely in his short piece "recognition". His intro to the new annotated Lovecraft book is also bretty gud.

Neonomicon was an odd beast and it seems Moore regrets it somewhat.

>>79695918
It's actually bringing it back to it's roots.
Using the sexual imagery he failed to use in any way usefully in Neonomicon to actually tense effect while also looking for real world context.
It's a good melange.

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>Kieron Gillen and Ignacio Calero on Modded - a dystopian future where enhanced monsters and daemons are pitted against each other, with a goal of catching them all!

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>Garth Ennis and Raulo Caceres continue Code Pru - the two issue series leads directly into the ongoing tale of the night shift FDNY paramedic Pru as she learns about the beastly NY City underworld... and how to offer them medical assistance!

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>Christos Gage and Gabriel Andrade bring a new kind of giant monster story to life with The Vast! A war that humanity is losing seems never ending. Until one woman discovers a monster that will fight to protect her!

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>Max Brooks (World War Z) and Michael DiPascale bring Max's heavily-researched and period-authentic story of the Civil War to life in A More Perfect Union. But this time, the South has been invaded by Giant Insects! Written as only Max Brooks can, taking no detail for granted and treating everything realistically.

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>This ongoing monthly series will feature Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill in every issue and is their first major new project together since League of Extraordinary Gentlemen! They take a trip through the dark recesses of cinema, the people behind it, the damage it has done, and the story of one woman forced to bare her soul, one short film at a time. Every issue and every story is radically different yet all weaved into one tapestry of breathtaking complexity as only Alan Moore could do.

>>79697641

>Gillen doing evil Pokemon

Ok ok I'll kickstart

>>79697714

20 bucks this ends with superhero movies taking over and ruining movies forever, who wants in!

but really these all sound great, too bad about all the shitty Avatar artists

>>79697641
>>79697674
>>79697655
>Avatar does Pokemon
>Avatar does Godzilla
>Caceres
sign me up

>>79697693
>Civil War with bugs
what

>>79697714
>Moore doing film commentary
>Kevin O'Neil
LarryDavid.gif

>>79697641
>>79697655
>>79697674
>>79697693
>>79697714

All trash 0/10 Avatar artists.

Welp there goes that idea. Moore forgot the thing that made anthologies work: Bernie Wrightson, Richard Corben, Steve Ditko, Joe Orlando, Wally Wood, Frank Frazetta, Moebius, etc. etc.

Now Morrison is gonna smack him up and embarrass the hell out of him with the caliber of artists he brings to heavy Metal.

>>79698646
Those aren't the anthologies.
Just other Avatar Press series.

>>79699839
No you are mistaken those other titles are the stuff with the Moore and O'Neill thing as part of an anthology being kickstarted.

>>79698646
Yeah but a 50 year old guy after a 30+ year stint at DC doesn't seem like the kind of person you want running Heavy Metal

>>79700400
Is that what it is?
Huh.

Some of them sound like your normal Avatar Press fluff.
Probably the giant insect war sounds the best,

>>79700400
>Yeah but a 50 year old guy after a 30+ year stint at DC doesn't seem like the kind of person you want running Heavy Metal

Why? He's been exclusive at DC for less than a decade and continued doing creator owned stuff on the side the whole time he was doing mainstream capes.

>>79700505
I don't get the same excitement from him I used to, he feels over the hill.

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>>79698646
>Kevin O'Neil
>0/10

The kickstarter also revealed that there's going to be 3 Providence trades before any possibly complete collection..


Who's going to double dip?

>>79700742

You're right but it's true for the rest of them

>>79700910
If we're talking in just Avatar terms, Dipascale and Caceres are the top stringers.

>>79700950
But we aren't because no one buys comics like that.

>>79700968
Oh, and I forgot Andrade.
The first Crossed + 100 arc was pretty good looking

>>79701002
It's more of the coloring than the actual pencilling they dis.

AND FUCK HOW MUCH I HATE THEIR PALLETES.

>>79701036
Yeah the coloring can be pretty dire.

It's quite honestly part of the reason why Burrow's recent work on Providence looks so great.
Good coloring.

how can americans get Heavy Metal anyway? i wanna be on that GMo kick

>>79701074
Comic Shops can order it like anything else.

>>79687602
Why is it no one gives folks shit for redoing stuff like Hercules, Romeo and Juliet, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes or King Arthur for literally thousands of years? But do superheroes for a few decades and it's bullshit.

>>79701256
Because you are describing 5 different things and Superheroes are 1

>>79690193
I actually like the idea of "film.horror" taking that feeling when you watch something and notice "man these people are kinda fucked up" and building the whole thing around it.

>>79701256
Because drawing upon thousands of years of culture for rehashes is less off-putting than drawing on a few decades of culture for rehashes.

>>79692289
>>79692836
>>79695918
>>79696501
>>79697036
Please elaborate, tell me what's rhe rap about providence?

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Kevin O'Neill is my favorite comic artist

>>79701546
It's the prequel/sequel to Neonomicon.
Pretty much your basic Lovecraft formula.

An everyman goes on a journey of discovery and ends up tangled into the dangerous and deadly world of the occult.
The twist?
Everything he encounters is the basis for a famous Lovecraft story.

>>79701376

I'm so interested in Moore wading into that kinda shit. hope it doesn't devolve into old man yells at clouds

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>>79701546
It is what Moore has always done so well just applied to the Lovecraft body of work.

He tells a story that you want to follow and doesn't bog down the story but you know reading it that there is so much crammed down on top of what you are reading that is waiting for you to unpack. It is also legitimately creepy.

Burrows is also the perfect artist for that kind of Horror because his style is so plain that when an angle doesn't look right or someone gives a not right expression it just sings.

Reminds me a lot of League which has had Lovecraftian elements but this amount of focus really shows. The book also shows why he can just write circles around most people writing comics.

>>79701689
Like depending on how it ends up

Providence:Lovecraft::Watchmen:Superheroes

>>79692836
>>79696501
>>79701605

I'm a huge Lovecraft fan and I actually though Courtyard / Neonomicon was pretty ok even with the fish raping but by far his worst comic I've read. I really wish he'd move on and get back to something in the Top Ten / Tom Strong vein.

>Funnily enough, that is one of the most unpleasant things I have ever written. It was just at the time when I finally parted company with DC Comics over something dreadful that happened around the Watchmen film. Kevin [O’Neill] and I found that we were having some hiccups in our payments, after storming out of DC. I had a tax bill coming up, and I needed some money quickly. So I happened to be talking to William [Christensen] from Avatar, and he suggested that he could provide some if I was up for doing a four-part series, so I did.

>>79701741
I actually think that Providence has more shades of a reconstructive bent.
Lovecraft media has become too focused on the spectacle.
Providence brings the horror back to the context and the locations.

>>79701756
Providence makes those two look like complete crap

>>79701805
That is also very true.

>>79687602
Look at that, Moore still riding on more successful writers' works to make his dime. What a surprise. I hope he packages it with another totally oblivious rant about how modern writers (other than him of course) are totally intellectually bankrupt.

>>79701887
I mean everyone wants to get to Cthulhu, but no one wants to put the work in to make that a worthy pay off anymore.

One of Providence's best sequences was the reading of the Necronomicon, and that is just pure OG H.P.

We need some US artists to get all super researched stories cities (ie NYC) like Moore does. I mean Miller got the tone right and Marvel

>>79701895
You seem to think you have crafted a contradiction, when you haven't.

>>79687906
>Dodgem Logic

I picked up the whole run and it was really disappointing. And I'm a Moore fan.

>>79701074
Barnes and Nobles sometimes stock them.

>>79691658
>>79691692
Outhousers is an inferior source compared to Bleeding Cool?

>>79704890
Yes, theyre a satire website like the onion

>>79708839
Hi

>>79701074
You can always subscribe

>>79687672
>Morrison becomes EiC of Heavy Metal
When did this happen?
Holy fuck, man, I look away from my favorite anthology series for one week and Grant's got it?

>>79687672
I can't help but feel that Morrison is winning this war.
I mean the Hail to the Chief cover of Heavy Metal just screams "Fuck you, Alan. You're already dead."

>>79701951
You seem to think you have crafted a retort, when you haven't.

>>79708865

Morrison was EiC of Heavy Metal for a good while now, bro.

>>79709053
It must've been when I was offline. Last I checked the ninja turtle guy was still in charge.
Hell I didn't think grant would even have time.

>>79709199
Has taking over this month actually, it was just announced that he'd take over a few months ago.

Next issue is his first official issue.

>>79709257
I am extremely curious about how it'll turn out.

Moz was announced as new EiC for Heavy Metal like 6 months ago but there was very little talk or updates after.

How we know his first issue is April 2016

>>79687602
>>79687640
>cinema purgatorio
is this any relation to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_Paradiso

>>79710575
it was announced that he starts with issue 279 and then they announced theyre pushing it back to 280

>>79687602
>and in my opinion you cannot accomplish this by continually rebooting and recycling the pop culture of the Sixties, Seventies and Eighties.
That's funny coming from him. But I agree. Unfortunately people always seem to be interested in rehashing the culture of the last two to three decades, that wasn't different in the 60s or 70s
> Has The Human Centipede taught us nothing?
Now this is surprising. He has watched it. I thought he isn't much into modern culture.

>>79687640
focussing in on the uneasy aspects of the way we watch films, with our simultaneous awareness of the lives of the actors and directors and production companies that are going on behind the painted flats, and our conditioned acceptance of cinematic conventions that are in as complete a contradiction of reality as anything that H.P. Lovecraft ever attempted

I seriously hope this isn't going to be just "Cinema figures come to live". We already had that with Clive Barker as a horror story.