{"id":9670,"date":"2011-07-12T02:07:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T01:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=9670"},"modified":"2011-07-12T02:07:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T01:07:29","slug":"alan-moore-storyteller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/07\/12\/alan-moore-storyteller\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Moore: Storyteller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilex-press.com\/books\/alan-moore-storyteller\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/millidge.jpg\" alt=\"millidge.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another book out this month from Ilex Press (the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/07\/07\/the-thackery-t-lambshead-cabinet-of-curiosities\/\"><em>Lambshead<\/em> anthology<\/a> should be out in the US today), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilex-press.com\/books\/alan-moore-storyteller\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Alan Moore: Storyteller<\/em><\/a> is an illustrated biography of Mr Moore by comics writer and artist Gary Spencer Millidge whose 50th birthday tribute <em>Alan Moore: Portrait of An Extraordinary Gentleman<\/em> appeared in 2003.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Subjects covered include rarely-seen early work, breakthrough UK comics, the hugely successful American work that brought comics to a wider, adult audience, and the genre-defying independent stories of the 1990s, up to his current alternative periodical, <em>Dodgem Logic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Of equal interest, and covered in full here, are Moore&#8217;s other endeavours: freedom of speech; magic and ritual; performance art; anarchism; self-publishing; and supporting the arts in his native Northampton, amongst others. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilex-press.com\/books\/alan-moore-storyteller\/\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My copy is on its way, apparently, so I haven&#8217;t seen the contents yet but it should include some of my designs and illustrations for the Moon &amp; Serpent CDs. The book also includes a 19-track CD of songs, readings, and performances by Alan and co. I&#8217;m looking forward to this one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/decalcomania\/snakes.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/snakesout.jpg\" alt=\"snakesout.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>My insert for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/decalcomania\/snakes.html\" target=\"_blank\">Snakes &amp; Ladders<\/a> CD (2003).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/10\/23\/alan-moore-tisser-l\u2019invisible\/\">Alan Moore: Tisser l\u2019invisible<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/06\/12\/dodgem-logic-4\/\">Dodgem Logic #4<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/06\/24\/watchmen\/\">Watchmen<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/02\/20\/alan-moore-interview-1988\/\">Alan Moore interview, 1988<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another book out this month from Ilex Press (the Lambshead anthology should be out in the US today), Alan Moore: Storyteller is an illustrated biography of Mr Moore by comics writer and artist Gary Spencer Millidge whose 50th birthday tribute Alan Moore: Portrait of An Extraordinary Gentleman appeared in 2003. Subjects covered include rarely-seen early &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/07\/12\/alan-moore-storyteller\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alan Moore: Storyteller&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[42,9,4,3,23],"tags":[103,1403,1877,247],"class_list":["post-9670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-comics","category-design","category-music","category-work","tag-alan-moore","tag-dodgem-logic","tag-gary-spencer-millidge","tag-watchmen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2vY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}