Alan Moore's cane

Few weeks ago DC co-bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran finally revealed their plans for the new DC movies included one focused on The Authority. In his newsletter - Orbital Operations for 5 February 2023, titled Big Sound Authority - Warren Ellis commented the news:

THE AUTHORITY was a comics series I created with and for the artist Bryan Hitch, with colourist Laura DePuy (now Laura Martin) in the late 1990s at DC Wildstorm. It was actually just Wildstorm when we started - I remember Jim Lee and Scott Dunbier gathering us all to dinner in London to explain that Wildstorm was being bought by DC, that doughty pair having just returned from Northampton to explain it all to Alan Moore.

"Alan got out of the cab with a walking stick in his hand, and I swear to god it looked like a cudgel he'd brought to beat us to death with."

Alan Moore, to me later: "Ah, yes.  I affect a cane these days."

(Note: this is the correct English formulation of a sentence that might otherwise read, "I carry a cane as a personal affectation.") - Warren Ellis

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Moore against... Thesauri

Above, a funny memory from Scott Dubier's Facebook page. Dunbier was the editor of Alan Moore's America's Best Comics line. 

Obviously, it's a joke: remember that Moore is also the man behind AARGH (Artists Against Rampant Government Homophobia), among other things. Furthermore he has a great sense of humour, too (just read, for example, his D.R. and Quinch stories!) Enjoy! ;)

Original proposal for the ABC line

The original proposal for the ABC line. By Alan Moore.

The 6th and 7th of April, Scott Dunbier posted some Moore texts and scripts on his Twitter account. Here, here, here and here. Above, an excerpt from Moore's original proposal for ABC. 

Alan Moore: [...] The broad agenda for the line will be the manufacture of comic books to a standard of excellence and beauty in both art and writing that will make them unique in today's marketplace and more importantly, fit for tomorrow's. With the comic industry in a state of panic, fragmention and decline; with little else to lose and everything to play for, it would seem a strong, decisive move is necessary.

Rather than dwell pointlessly and inconclusively upon the many problems and negative factors that afflict the field, now is perhaps the time to play our strongest cards, those of imagination, Energy and Vision. These were, in truth, the only cards the industry was ever holding. All the rest was bluff. [...]

The complete text has been transcribed by BleedingCool, here.