Mischievous Bitz

Excerpt from Smash Hits, January 7 - 20, 1982, "Bitz" section, page 10.

TRANSPORT OF DELIGHT
They're really a caution these pop groups, aren't they? The latest artistic wheeze from David Jay, bassist with ever so serious Bauhaus, is to play a gig on an ordinary double decker bus as it plies its regular route around his home-town of Northampton. He plans to pull it off with his spare-time outfit The Sinister Ducks who also feature Sounds cartoonist Curt Vile.
The whole point, he says, is that there will be no advance warning to Press, public or passenger transport authority.
The lads will just wait at a request stop with their instruments, battery amps and so on, go upstairs and set up whether the audience is a full house of choking smokers, three men and a dog or just the conductor.
When his associate outlined the scheme, Bauhaus singer Peter Murphy observed: "You are mischievous, Dave. It's a nice idea, but don't you think as an event it's really rather obscure?"

Mister Vile and the others

Excerpt from an interview from Cerebro vol.3 no.15, July/August 1982.  

CEREBRO: Good morning, Mister Vile. Would I be correct in assuming that 'Curt Vile' is a pseudonym? 

Good evening, Mr. Stachelski. Yes of course Curt Vile is a pseudonym, you jerk. What kind of mother would name her firstborn Curt Vile? My real name is Elrod Sanilav. On occasion I have also posed as Alan Moore, Jill de Ray, and Translucia Baboon. And as a scintillating tidbit of information for all you fans of the adorable Bauhaus pop group I can reveal that the sleeve notes on the second album 'Mask' were also by me in the guise of avant garde poet Brilburn Logue. My one abiding fear is that one day I'll wake up and find that I'm really a pseudonym for John Wagner or T.B. Grover. Incidentally, is Stachelski your real name, or did you arrive at it by throwing darts at a Scrabble board?

Watchmen and... Moore's self-plagiarism

Above, the final panels from the Three-Eyes McGurk and His Death Planet Commandos story originally printed in "Dark Star" n. 22-25, published by Dark Star Publishing in 1979-1980. It was reprinted in 1981 in Rip Off Comix n. 8. Art by Curt Vile (a.k.a Alan Moore), story & inks by Pedro Henry (a.k.a Steve Moore).

Below, some iconic panels from Watchmen, issue n.7, cover date March 1987, DC Comics. Art by Dave Gibbons, colours by John Higgins. 

You can see the similarities, can't you? :)