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Alan Moore works as sort of a comics shibboleth. If you know who he is, you're hip to the whole "comics are a vibrant artform capable of expressing things that neither film nor literature can do quite as well;" if you've never heard of him, there's a good chance that you don't spend a lot of time at the comic shop.

We've rewritten this intro several times to be relevant to both camps, but, frankly, we can't make it work. So we'll be blunt: if you've read any Moore, you certainly have an opinion and should start rocking the links. If you haven't, we recommend you do so right away (we suggest starting with League of Extraordinary Gentlemen-- which is exciting and funny and accessible, and fully as awesome as the movie was lame—or Watchmen, which you'll probably inevitably read if you stick around the comics scene for any length of time) and maybe hit the AV Club interview and Comics 101 article linked below for a taste of what the guy's like and where he's coming from.

Enjoy!

AV Club Interview

Comics 101's Scott Tipton provides a quick rundown on the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Slate overview of Moore's work and career

Collected AM Coverage from comics criticism site Ninth Art

Free Moore comic scripts and more
(including Twilight of the Superheroes, a brilliant, insane, and almost certainly impossible-to-pull-off proposal of Moore's from the late 80s)

3-Part Interview with Comic Book Resources about Lost Girls, the unabashedly pornographic book Moore and artist Melinda Gebbie are releasing during the summer of 2006

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Watch comics legend John Byrne make an ass of himself talking Lost Girls

2000 interview at Salon

Nobody bats a thousand; comics blogger Jog on Moore's worst

Index of other Moore Interviews

Barbelith, the Cadillac of comics discussion sites:
The Best of Alan Moore
Barbelith on Moore's controversial request to have his name removed from promotional materials for film versions of his work

ANNOTATIONS

Jess Nevins annotates many comics, especially Moore's

Watchmen Annotations:
theory.lcs.mit.edu/~wald/watchmen-index.html
www.capnwacky.com/rj/watchmen/chapter1.html