Alright, today's post will be covering a man who took the happy, carefree world of comics that we all knew and in 1986, turned it on its head. That man is Alan Moore. Moore started out doing scripts for British comic books including Warrior and Marvelman. He then came to America in 1983, working on DC's then flagging comic book Swamp Thing. He then penned a two-part piece in Vigilante on domestic abuse and wrote the famous "For the Man who has Everything" story for Superman, followed by "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow". In 1986, Watchmen was released to the public, and the affect was amazing. Moore had created characters (based on the Charlton Comics group), placing them in the world at the height of the Cold War, having played a huge part in the war, and the world up to that point. In 1988 he released the Batman story entitled "The Killing Joke", after which he left working for DC over royalty issues. After returning to mainstream comics work in the 90's, Moore started an imprint group of WildStorm Productions, calling it America's Best Comics. His first work was the comic entitled "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", in which classic Victorian England characters band together to save the world. His next works included the famed comics Tom Strong, Greyshirt and Nubia. He has recently returned to doing independent work, and his upcoming work "The Moon and the Serpent Bumper Book of Magic", is to be published in 2013 by Top Shelf Productions. From all of us fans to you Mr. Moore, thank you for all that you have done and continue to do for this fantastic enterprise.
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