Dave McKean: V for Vendetta is the one!

Transcript from a short video in the great Bob Fish presents channel.

You can watch the video HERE.

Bob Fish presents channel HERE. Highly recommended! 

Dave McKean: [V for Vendetta] is the best book that Alan did.

Bob Fish: Better than Watchmen?
 

DMK: I'm not a fan of Watchmen anymore. I was. I loved it...

BF: Because of the superheroes?

DMK: Because of the superheroes. 
Whereas this one... it always seemed like a really strong personal vision, conceived with no pressures on it. It didn't have to use characters from here... 'cos Watchmen started with Charlton characters.

Whereas this is a total from scratch, "I can do anything I want and I feel passionate about this and I need to make this story". That's why I think this one survives. 

Watchmen now feels like the end of an era rather than this that feels much more like the beginning.

David Lloyd really was a terrific for this particular story. Endlessly inventive and beautifully crafted ideas. 

And I think this Alan's work will be the one that will be remembered from this particular era.

Agents of Oblivion

Above a great illustration by the amazing Dave McKean included in Agents of Oblivion by the extraordinary Iain Sinclair. The illustration features Algernon Blackwood but also Steve Moore and... Alan Moore!

Four stories starting everywhere and finishing in madness. Four acknowledged guides. Four tricksters. Four inspirations. Algernon Blackwood. Arthur Machen. J. G. Ballard. H. P. Lovecraft. They are known as “Agents of Oblivion”. And sometimes, in brighter light, as oblivious angels . . .

As host, as oracle, Iain Sinclair moves through this quartet of tales, through a spectral London that once was, or might never have been.

Furthermore: Alan's presence is very much there in the first story, 'The Lure of Silence'. - Iain Sinclair.

Unfortunately the hard-cover seems to be sold out. But... 

Paperback edition forthcoming Autumn 2023.

Highly recommended!

Voice of the fire new edition

Cover by Dave McKean.

Subterranean Press announced a new edition of Voice of the Fire, the first novel written by Alan Moore, originally published by Gollancz in 1996. The book was later published in 2004 by Top Shelf Productions with colour plates by artist José Villarrubia and an introduction by Neil Gaiman (paperback edition published in 2009; new printing scheduled for August 2015).

The Subterrean Press edition will be published in June and it's available for preorder (here) with dust jacket and endpaper illustrations by Dave McKean, original introduction by Joe Hill.

Limited: 750 signed numbered oversize hardcovers.

Lettered: 26 signed leatherbound copies, housed in a custom traycase. This version is already sold out.