You know, he really should stop the drugs and dark magicks Dude is not even 60 yet he looks like a 180 year old wizard. I was surprised to learn his age, thought he was much older.
Funny thing he was in a band, just not a big one. It’s called the Sinister Ducks. Alan on vocals and some members of Bauhaus. It also had a b-side called old gangsters never die.
Len Wein was such a talent. He created so many interesting and hugely popular characters. His writing influenced the future direction of many books. And he was a great editor. Huge fan
I wish she had asked him what Swamp Thing sounded like, when Alan talked in his voice. Think about it. If he'd let us hear it, that would be Swamp Thing's ACTUAL voice. As he envisaged it to actually be. I could have reread the whole run with Swamp Thing's actual voice, as the creator intended it to sound, playing in my head the whole time.
When he talks about writing dialogue by acting as the character and saying the dialogue to hear how it sounds, is exactly what I did when translating the script for Project School Days episodes 8 through 12.
It's so weird hearing this because it's very similar to my own writing style, always just presumed others did this but to know one of my favorites does as well? Both happy and a little terrified lol
He used to look so happy back then. He became kinda angrier after he broke with DC Comics. I mean, here it looks like he's living the dream of his life.
With all the talk about Watchmen and V for Vendetta, it's great to hear to him talk about one of his earlier, and IMO, greatest works. It's a shame that his run on "Swamp Thing" isn't praised as much as the other books I mentioned, because it's just as great.
I feel like in the 12 years since your comment, Swamp Thing has gained a lot of traction with comic book fans. I've always thought it was the most brilliant thing I ever read in the medium.
@@anthonychobot2342 I think you meant Jack Kirby and Warren Ellis. I kid (somewhat) of course. Stan was a great filter for the artists ideas and knew how to sell the books better than anyone but I don’t know if I would throw him in the best writers conversation. Anyways what about Chris Claremont, Frank Miller, Ed Brubaker, Archie Goodwin, and last but not least, the bane of Alan Moore’s existence, Grant Morrison.
@hypnodance Alan's a very honorable writer, & he was honorable to Len Wein's work. A creative, thoughtful retcon indeed. I loved the fact when Alan made the character realized that he was never a man nor a monster, he discovered that he was going around in circles only to find out he is the cure to all life on earth & beyond. What an epiphany.
Those poor kids! I've read a lot of the swamp things he wrote and they scared the crap out me; let alone hearing your father speak those things or act that way.
@CapNCorn He introduced John Constantine as a character in Swamp Thing too. But I have to admit I am a huge fan of his earlier work, Skizz, and The Ballad of Halo Jones.
I wonder if it was because I didn't rate this as for or not for kids? Try again and let me know if it still isn't working. I'm not sure what's going on.
She was shown in her first as well as the final House of Mystery, looking adorable. I saw her in person in 2008, and she looks quite attractive for a middle-aged woman.
The House of Mystery issues in question are #292 and 321. #292 ends with Cain (Len Wein lookalike) kicking Len Wein out of the House and Karen Berger giving Cain cookies. 39 issues later, she denounced him as old fashioned, probably never guessing he'd be featured in one of DC's biggest hits of all time.
+darkknight07100 I think this was an promo DC put together. I got this as a gift, from someone who had the video on video tape and needed it digitized.
The REAL money in Swamp Thing is the comic book drug pushers ...a back issue being 30 years old is a dollar and the new stuff is ten dollars. Paper will wipe you either way, literally.
Even though he looks physically similar now to how he did back then, he comes across as a completely different person in this video than he does nowadays. There's no bitterness, petulance or self-indulgence to be seen in this video - I wonder what he'd say if he saw this today...
i think he gets a bad rap as being a bit grumpy. during interviews he does seem a little odd and uninterested but from what i have seen as far as meeting fans and other people outside of interviews he seems sweet.
Yes A.David Silverman. This was his introduction to the industry. The 'bitterness# you speak of NPChilla has not been earthed yet. Check out what Karen Berger says about Swamp Thing at the end of Part 4 (for obvious insight) 4:00 in [this clip] is pretty funny, no? I think he may have grown more serious in his old age. Given his specific career...who'd a'thunk it?
@gianmariacaschetto Agreed. And when he seemed a lot less cynical towards others. Like other writers, or creators in other mediums of entertainment, and his America bashing is more of a yawn with its childishness rather than the (de)contructiveness it was in the past.
Don t know, In this case i did It because I had no idea how Karen was way back when, And comic book fans dont have an inmediate chance to know how a person looks like, opposed to celebrities e.g. Be Well.
Young Alan Moore was just waiting to become an old wizard.
You know, he really should stop the drugs and dark magicks
Dude is not even 60 yet he looks like a 180 year old wizard. I was surprised to learn his age, thought he was much older.
@@FredMaverikAlan is 69 years old.
Who had the mind to record such a thing?! God bless them for doing so.
RIP Len Wein.
Funny watching Alan Moore this young and snappy
Alan Moore looking like he belongs in a thrash metal band in them days...and still does. Delightful.
Funny thing he was in a band, just not a big one. It’s called the Sinister Ducks. Alan on vocals and some members of Bauhaus. It also had a b-side called old gangsters never die.
I love Alan Moore and Swamp Thing... An unkempt, swamp-dwelling beast... And Swamp Thing is great too.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Len Wein was such a talent. He created so many interesting and hugely popular characters. His writing influenced the future direction of many books. And he was a great editor. Huge fan
His run on Swamp Thing was an inspired piece of work. I reread it at least once a year and it gives me chills every time.
I just finished all 6 Saga of the Swamp Thing Books by Alan Moore, so this mini series of interviews was really insightful & fun!
He just seems so young and happy and optomistic here....
It's probably because he was just starting out and truly and deeply loved Swamp Thing's character.
before he hated everyone/thing.
Sane time
Great interview. Alan gives some brilliant advice for writers. Not everyone can write as well as him though!
Alan Moore is metal as hell xD
🤘😈🤘
A classic Norseman
Why Alan Moore look like he bout to give the powers of Shazam to a boy named Billy?
a fucking genius.. the amounts of LsD this man has done only made his mind more incredible
karen berger looks like laura dern
I loved Swamp Thing in the 80's such brilliant stories and graphics.
I don't know if you've checked it out, but New 52 Swamp Thing is also a must-read. Something about the character always seems to attract talent.
Yuloforce Thanks, I'll check it out.
Alan Moore is just like his Watchmen characters in the sense that he's had the same hair for his whole life.
It's so weird seeing Alan Moore act like a normal guy and not a frightening cult leader
whats weirder as any interview I've seen of him he just seems like a normal guy.
You're simultaneously a drama queen and a real dipshit
We are all normal. But some just become more interesting as they age. At the same time that also pushes the normal people away from them.
"It`s sadism and I am getting paid for it " XD Swamp Thing is actually my favorite Dc Comics character.
I wish she had asked him what Swamp Thing sounded like, when Alan talked in his voice. Think about it. If he'd let us hear it, that would be Swamp Thing's ACTUAL voice. As he envisaged it to actually be. I could have reread the whole run with Swamp Thing's actual voice, as the creator intended it to sound, playing in my head the whole time.
Thank you for posting these!! 💚
I love you
It's been so long since anyone last saw Alan Moore's neck that it can now be declared legally dead and science has yet to prove that it even exists.
R.I.P Len Wein
From your mind and hands came one the greatest Marvel characters ever....
Wolverine !
When he talks about writing dialogue by acting as the character and saying the dialogue to hear how it sounds, is exactly what I did when translating the script for Project School Days episodes 8 through 12.
By the way it took about 30 years for me to hear Alan Moore's voice.
Interesting to hear that he had MUCH less of an accent back then. It has really thickened over the years as he got older.
Alan’s Northamptonshire accent has gotten so much stronger over the intervening years.
Wow I was just thinking as I was watching this how metal Alan looks and then scrolled down and everyone else agrees. He looks brutal as fuck.
Young Alan Moore was just basically a baby wizard
It's so weird hearing this because it's very similar to my own writing style, always just presumed others did this but to know one of my favorites does as well? Both happy and a little terrified lol
He used to look so happy back then. He became kinda angrier after he broke with DC Comics. I mean, here it looks like he's living the dream of his life.
This is great. Thanks for uploading
Love seeing Alan before the comics business broke his heart.
Still the greatest single run on a mainstream comic ever.
The Punisher Max Series 1 ?
@@markpatjoebilldinousar1111 Um...nah.
@@GodLovesComics um yea .....Man thing isnr even on the same level lol
With all the talk about Watchmen and V for Vendetta, it's great to hear to him talk about one of his earlier, and IMO, greatest works. It's a shame that his run on "Swamp Thing" isn't praised as much as the other books I mentioned, because it's just as great.
I feel like in the 12 years since your comment, Swamp Thing has gained a lot of traction with comic book fans. I've always thought it was the most brilliant thing I ever read in the medium.
Luna's person (Ya Boi Zack) sent me here. . .
Really great interview! 👍
It's funny when they ask him about horror and then zoom right in...like this is what real horror is...Alan Moores face!
The end of the second book had me in tears.
Eziokilla9595 you're an idiot
Dolphins101 and you're just a fuckin dolphin so
"I actually reduced myself to sort of slobbering terror!"... Legend :)
you are an absolute genius alan!!!!!!!!!!!!
I figure it'd be something about how his treatment at the hands of the big companies could transform him from that to this.
how can a man look in 2012 exactly the same as in 1985...
He seems very rock & roll.
World's finest.
He looks like if Swampy was human. I mean that in a nice way.
Alan is a great character as well as an artist. I d never figure Karen Berger Was such a looker, she was damn sexy back then.
alan moore the monk. delightful
Comics best writer hands down!
AriesJ16 Yes besides Stan Lee & Warren Ellis
@@anthonychobot2342 I think you meant Jack Kirby and Warren Ellis. I kid (somewhat) of course. Stan was a great filter for the artists ideas and knew how to sell the books better than anyone but I don’t know if I would throw him in the best writers conversation. Anyways what about Chris Claremont, Frank Miller, Ed Brubaker, Archie Goodwin, and last but not least, the bane of Alan Moore’s existence, Grant Morrison.
@hypnodance Alan's a very honorable writer, & he was honorable to Len Wein's work. A creative, thoughtful retcon indeed. I loved the fact when Alan made the character realized that he was never a man nor a monster, he discovered that he was going around in circles only to find out he is the cure to all life on earth & beyond. What an epiphany.
Back when he didn't hate everything
He even looks like Swamp Thing.
Looking at Alan Moores posture makes my neck hurt.
best head of hair on earth....ever....
Those poor kids! I've read a lot of the swamp things he wrote and they scared the crap out me; let alone hearing your father speak those things or act that way.
This video’s a gem! 💎
@CapNCorn He introduced John Constantine as a character in Swamp Thing too. But I have to admit I am a huge fan of his earlier work, Skizz, and The Ballad of Halo Jones.
Is there a reason why I can´t save this video in in a list TH-cam?
I wonder if it was because I didn't rate this as for or not for kids? Try again and let me know if it still isn't working. I'm not sure what's going on.
This cameraman sure loves slow zooms into Moore's eyes.
Hey, I have that same Nesquik rabbit cup.
Who needs Swamp thig when youve got Alan Moore.
You know, he does kind of look like Swamp Thing. Never noticed that before.
Omg Gareth marrenghi is based on this interview
Alan is the coolest reincarnation of Jesus!
Poor lady didn’t have a clue who she was talking to 😂
Back then Alan was a lot creepier than now...
So when did he quit Kansas?
She was shown in her first as well as the final House of Mystery, looking adorable. I saw her in person in 2008, and she looks quite attractive for a middle-aged woman.
He looks young.
He's like a cool and tallented Garth Marenghi
my biggest inspiration for going into comics :)
Lol every genius is a little bit crazy I guess!
thx
The House of Mystery issues in question are #292 and 321. #292 ends with Cain (Len Wein lookalike) kicking Len Wein out of the House and Karen Berger giving Cain cookies. 39 issues later, she denounced him as old fashioned, probably never guessing he'd be featured in one of DC's biggest hits of all time.
Seeing that in the mirror would be some scary ass shit
1985? who watched this before youtube?
Scott Glass I was 2 years old at the time
I assume only the enlightened great question by you
Can someone tell me what this is a part of?
A DC Promo piece? Is this for TV? Where did it air?
+darkknight07100 I think this was an promo DC put together. I got this as a gift, from someone who had the video on video tape and needed it digitized.
I didn't actually meet her; I just saw her presentation and Q&A.
Kinda weird to see Alan Moore be so playful.
maybe because he got an idea for watchmen so he was so excited to see how it'd turn out
You obviously don't know much about him then.
tell me
Did she have a nice personality as well? I am asking this becaus some artists arent very friendly with the fans . Be well.
The REAL money in Swamp Thing is the comic book drug pushers ...a back issue being 30 years old is a dollar and the new stuff is ten dollars. Paper will wipe you either way, literally.
Even though he looks physically similar now to how he did back then, he comes across as a completely different person in this video than he does nowadays.
There's no bitterness, petulance or self-indulgence to be seen in this video - I wonder what he'd say if he saw this today...
@fabian5002
back then mainstream had rules indie stuff didnt
i think he gets a bad rap as being a bit grumpy. during interviews he does seem a little odd and uninterested but from what i have seen as far as meeting fans and other people outside of interviews he seems sweet.
Back when Alan Moore was only a level 10 wizard.
Yes A.David Silverman. This was his introduction to the industry. The 'bitterness# you speak of NPChilla has not been earthed yet. Check out what Karen Berger says about Swamp Thing at the end of Part 4 (for obvious insight)
4:00 in [this clip] is pretty funny, no? I think he may have grown more serious in his old age. Given his specific career...who'd a'thunk it?
Alan Moore channeling Colin Grigson.
alan is the comic book jesus
I only clicked on this cuz I thought that was Rob Zombie..........
The man has never cut his hair
0:57 Karen Berger looks like the chick in the picture
King Midas!
there's always smoke in his interviews lol
Is it me or if u look closely Alan looks like swamp thing
@gianmariacaschetto Agreed. And when he seemed a lot less cynical towards others. Like other writers, or creators in other mediums of entertainment, and his America bashing is more of a yawn with its childishness rather than the (de)contructiveness it was in the past.
Pretty sure Alan Moore is related to Bigfoot...
moore wrote things to scare neil gaiman
Young Alen Moore was just waiting to become an old Alen Moore...
this is a weird episode of garth merenghis darkplace
Don t know, In this case i did It because I had no idea how Karen was way back when, And comic book fans dont have an inmediate chance to know how a person looks like, opposed to celebrities e.g. Be Well.
Almost forgot how funny Moore could be.
Funny to see Moore before that angry Badger took up residence in his beard.