28 Facts About Alan Moore

1. Alan Moore is a member of The Arts Emergency Service, a British charity working with 16—to 19-year-olds in further education from diverse backgrounds.

2. In 2007 Alan Moore appeared in animated form in an episode of The Simpsons—a show of which he is a fan—entitled "Husbands and Knives", which aired on his fifty-fourth birthday.

3. Alan Moore is a member of The Arts Emergency Service, a British charity working with 16—to 19-year-olds in further education from diverse backgrounds.

4. In December 2011, Alan Moore responded to Frank Miller's attack on the Occupy movement, calling his more recent work misogynistic, homophobic and misguided.

5. Alan Moore is a member of Northampton Arts Lab and takes walks with the novelist Alistair Fruish.

6. Alan Moore took as his primary deity the ancient Roman snake god Glycon, who was the centre of a cult founded by a prophet known as Alexander of Abonoteichus, and according to Alexander's critic Lucian, the god itself was merely a puppet, something Moore accepts, considering him to be a "complete hoax", but dismisses as irrelevant.

7. Alan Moore has taken to wearing a number of large rings on his hands, leading him to be described as a "cross between Hagrid and Danny from Withnail And I" who could be easily mistaken for "the village eccentric".

8. Alan Moore estimated it to be 'at least a few million dollars' and said: "You can't buy that kind of empowerment.

9. When he and Mr Alan Moore sold their film rights to the comic book, Mr Lloyd said: "We didn't do it innocently.

10. Alan Moore has won multiple Eagle Awards, including virtually a "clean sweep" in 1986 for his work on Watchmen and Swamp Thing.

11. Alan Moore brings a wide range of influences to his work, such as William S Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Anton Wilson, and Iain Sinclair, New Wave science fiction writers like Michael Moorcock, and horror writers such as Clive Barker.

12. In 2018 Alan Moore contributed to the comic anthology 24 Panels.

13. Alan Moore has appeared live at music events collaborating with a number of different musicians, including a 2011 appearance with Stephen O'Malley at the All Tomorrow's Parties 'I'll Be Your Mirror' music festival in London.

14. In 2010 Alan Moore began what he described as "the 21st century's first underground magazine".

15. In 2007 Alan Moore appeared in animated form in an episode of The Simpsons—a show of which he is a fan—entitled "Husbands and Knives", which aired on his fifty-fourth birthday.

16. Alan Moore decided that there were too many people involved to back out from the project, and so ABC was launched in early 1999.

17. Alan Moore named this imprint America's Best Comics, lining up a series of artists and writers to assist him in this venture.

18. In 1993 Alan Moore declared himself to be a ceremonial magician.

19. Alan Moore wrote the lead story in Batman Annual No 11 drawn by George Freeman.

20. In 1987 Alan Moore submitted a proposal for a miniseries called Twilight of the Superheroes, the title a twist on Richard Wagner's opera Gotterdammerung.

21. Alan Moore began producing further stories for DC Comics, including a two-part story for Vigilante, which dealt with domestic abuse.

22. The third series that Alan Moore produced for Warrior was The Bojeffries Saga, a comedy about a working-class English family of vampires and werewolves, drawn by Steve Parkhouse.

23. Alan Moore had already produced a couple of strips for several alternative fanzines and magazines, such as Anon E Mouse for the local paper Anon, and St Pancras Panda, a parody of Paddington Bear, for the Oxford-based Back Street Bugle.

24. Alan Moore was born on 18 November 1953, at St Edmund's Hospital in Northampton to a working-class family who he believed had lived in the town for several generations.

25. Alan Moore is an occultist, ceremonial magician, and anarchist, and has featured such themes in works including Promethea, From Hell, and V for Vendetta, as well as performing avant-garde spoken word occult "workings" with The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some of which have been released on CD.

26. Alan Moore started writing for British underground and alternative fanzines in the late 1970s before achieving success publishing comic strips in such magazines as 2000 AD and Warrior.

27. Alan Moore has occasionally used such pseudonyms as Curt Vile, Jill de Ray, and Translucia Baboon;, reprints of some of his work have been credited to The Original Writer when Moore requested that his name be removed.

28. Alan Moore was born on 18 November 1953 and is an English writer known primarily for his work in comic books including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Ballad of Halo Jones and From Hell.