Alan Moore bibliography


This is a bibliography of works by British author and comic book writer Alan Moore.

Comics

Early work

Short stories and strips published in various British magazines and newspapers include:Embryo #5: "Once There Were Daemons" Anon #1–5: "Anon E. Mouse" The Back Street Bugle :
  • * "St. Pancras Panda"
  • * "Moeby Palliative"
  • * "Fat Jap Defamation Funnies"
  • * "Just Another Day" Dark Star :
  • * "The Avenging Hunchback"
  • * "Kultural Krime Komix"
  • * "Talcum Power"
  • * "Three Eyes McGurk and His Death Planet Commandos" – Axel PressbuttonSounds :
  • * "Roscoe Moscow: Who Killed Rock n' Roll?"
  • * "The Stars My Degradation" – Axel Pressbutton
  • * "Ten Little Liggers"
  • * "The Rock and Roll Zoo"
  • * "Christmas on Depravity" – Axel Pressbutton
  • * "The Bride of Pressbutton" – Axel PressbuttonMaxwell the Magic Cat
  • ''Scant Applause''

Marvel UK

Titles published by Marvel UK include:Doctor Who Magazine:

IPC Media

Titles published by IPC Media include:2000 AD:
  • * "A Holiday in Hell"
  • * Ro-Jaws' Robo-Tales:
  • ** "Killer in the Cab"
  • ** "The Dating Game"
  • * The Complete Alan Moore Future Shocks collects:
  • ** Ro-Jaws' Robo-Tales: "The Final Solution"
  • **Other Short Stories:
  • *** "Hot Item"
  • *** "Dr. Dibworthy's Disappointing Day"
  • *** "The Hyper-Historic Headbang"
  • *** "The Lethal Laziness of Lobelia Loam"
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  • ** Future Shocks:
  • *** "Grawks Bearing Gifts"
  • *** "The Return of the Two-Storey Brain!"
  • *** "The English/Phlondrutian Phrase Book"
  • *** "The Last Rumble of the Platinum Horde"
  • *** "They Sweep the Spaceways"
  • *** "The Regrettable Ruse of Rocket Redglare"
  • *** "A Cautionary Fable"
  • *** "Mister, Could You Use a Squonge?"
  • *** "A Second Chance!"
  • *** "Twist Ending"
  • *** "Salad Days!"
  • *** "The Beastly Beliefs of Benjamin Blint"
  • *** "All of Them Were Empty"
  • *** "An American Werewolf in Space!"
  • *** "The Bounty Hunters!"
  • *** "The Wages of Sin!"
  • *** "Return of the Thing!"
  • *** "Skirmish!"
  • *** "The Writing on the Wall!"
  • *** "The Wild Frontier!"
  • *** "The Big Day"
  • *** "One Christmas During Eternity!"
  • *** "No Picnic!"
  • *** "The Disturbed Digestions of Dr. Dibworthy"
  • *** "Sunburn"
  • *** "Bad Timing"
  • *** "Eureka!"
  • *** "Dad"
  • *** "Buzz Off!"
  • *** "Look Before You Leap!"
  • ** Abelard Snazz:
  • *** "The Double-Decker Dome Strikes Back"
  • *** "Halfway to Paradise"
  • *** "The Multi-Storey Mind Mellows Out!"
  • *** "Genius is Pain"
  • ** Time Twisters:
  • *** "The Reversible Man"
  • *** "Einstein"
  • *** "Chronocops"
  • *** "The Big Clock!"
  • *** "Going Native"
  • *** "Ring Road"
  • *** "The Time Machine"
  • *** "The Startling Success of Sideways Scuttleton"
  • * "Southern Comfort"
  • * Ro-Busters:
  • ** The Complete Ro-Busters includes:
  • *** "Bax the Burner"
  • *** "Old Red Eyes is Back"
  • *** "Stormeagles are Go!"
  • * Rogue Trooper:
  • ** Rogue Trooper: Tales of Nu-Earth Volume 1 includes:
  • *** "Pray for War"
  • *** "First of the Few"
  • * Skizz: "First Contact" collected as Skizz
  • * The Complete D.R. and Quinch collects:
  • ** "D.R. and Quinch Have Fun on Earth!"
  • ** "D.R. and Quinch Go Straight"
  • ** "D.R. and Quinch Go Girl Crazy"
  • ** "D.R. and Quinch Get Drafted"
  • ** "D.R. and Quinch Go to Hollywood"
  • ** "D.R. and Quinch Get Back to Nature"
  • * The Complete Ballad of Halo Jones collects:
  • ** "Book 1"
  • ** "Book 2 Prologue"
  • ** "Book 2"
  • ** "Book 3 Prologue"
  • ** "Book 3"
  • * ABC Warriors: "Red Planet Blues" Eagle:
  • * The Collector:
  • ** "Trash!"
  • ** "Profits of Doom" Scream!:
  • * ''Monster''

Other UK publishers

Titles published by various British publishers include:Warrior :

DC Comics/Vertigo

Titles published by DC Comics include:The Saga of Swamp Thing collected as:

Eclipse Comics

Titles published by Eclipse include:Miracleman #1-16 collected as:

Image Comics/Awesome Comics

Titles published by Image and its Awesome imprint include:Spawn:
  • * "In Heaven " collected in Spawn: Dark Discoveries
  • * "Blood Feud: Preludes & Nocturnes"
  • * Spawn: Blood Feud #1–4
  • * "The Freak" collected in Spawn: Betrayal of Blood 1963 #1-6
  • Violator:
  • * Violator #1–3: "The World"
  • * Violator vs. Badrock #1–4 collected as Violator vs. Badrock: Rocks & Hard Places Shadowhawks of Legend #1: "Shadows in the Sand" The Maxx No. 21 collected in The Maxx Volume 4 Supreme:
  • * The Story of the Year collects:
  • ** "The Supreme Story of the Year..."
  • ** "Secret Origins"
  • ** "Obscured Clouds!"
  • ** "The Age of Gold"
  • ** "Featuring Supreme's Pal Billy Friday"
  • ** "The Girl of Our Dreams!"
  • ** "The Finest of All Possible Worlds"
  • ** "Just Imagine"
  • ** "There is a Light That Never Goes Out..."
  • ** "A Love Supreme"
  • ** "A Roster of Rogues"
  • ** "The Return of Darius Dax"
  • * "Tales of the Supremacy featuring Squeak the Supremouse"
  • * "Public Service Announcement: National Flashlight Battery Inspection Day!"
  • * The Return collects:
  • ** "19th Dimensional Nervous Breakdown!"
  • ** "The Ballad of Judy Jordan"
  • ** "Silence at Gettysburg"
  • ** "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side"
  • ** Supreme: The Return #1–6
  • * "Special Bonus Feature!"
  • * "Revelations" Judgment Day collects:
  • * "Heroes, Heroines & Homicide"
  • * "The Trial"
  • * "Brought to Book"
  • * "Youngblood Prologue featuring Shaft"
  • * Judgment Day: Aftermath Youngblood:
  • * "A Brief History of Twilight"
  • * "Prologue "
  • * "Occupations"
  • * "Bad Blood"
  • * "Dandy in the Underworld"
  • * Alan Moore's Awesome Universe Handbook Glory #0: "Glory and the Gate of Tears" Mr. Monster's Gal Friday... Kelly #3: "It's Kelly's Boyfriend... Mr. Monster – Shopping"
  • 24 Panels Anthology: "If Einstein's Right..."

Wildstorm/America's Best Comics

Titles published by Wildstorm and its ABC imprint include:WildC.A.T.s collected as:

Avatar Comics

Titles published by Avatar include:

Other US publishers

Titles published by various American publishers include:American Flagg! :

Text stories and prose

"The World of The Watchmen" "A Hypothetical Lizard" "Alphabets of Desire" "Belly of Cloud" "The Children's Hour" "The Courtyard" "Fuseli's Disease" "The Gun" "Here Comes the Jetsons" "I was Superman's Double" "Judge Dredd" "Light of Thy Countenance" "Mystery and Abomination" "Protected Species" "Recognition" "Sawdust Memories" "Shrine of the Lizard" "Terror Couple Kill Telegram Sam in the Flat Field" "To The Humfo" "Zaman's Hill" "Between the Angels and the Apes" "Objects Discovered in a Novel Under Construction" "The Town Planning in Dreams" "Illuminations: Stories", 2022, Bloomsbury..

Novels and illustrated books

Voice of the Fire, 1996, Victor Gollancz; 1997, Orion Books; republished 2003, Top Shelf Productions. This new edition features a dust jacket designed by Chip Kidd, an introduction by Neil Gaiman and thirteen colour plates by José Villarrubia. Paperback edition released 15 July 2009, Top Shelf Productions.The Mirror of Love, 2003, Top Shelf Productions. A new version of his story for AARGH (Artists Against Rampant Government Homophobia). This edition features an introduction by David Drake and forty-one colour illustrations by José Villarrubia.25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom, 2009, Abrams. Illustrating the essay from Arthur magazine..Jerusalem, 2016, Knockabout ; 2016, Liveright..The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic The Great When: A Long London Novel, 2024, Bloomsbury..I Hear a New World, 2026, Bloomsbury..

Films

Show Pieces, short film anthology directed by Mitch Jenkins, written by Alan MooreThe Show, feature film adaptation of and sequel to Show Pieces, directed by Mitch Jenkins, written by Moore

Non-fiction

As well as his run on Captain Britain in The Daredevils Moore contributed text Night Raven stories, fanzine reviews and a number of long articles. The non-fiction pieces include:"The Importance of Being Frank" "Stan Lee: Blinded by the Hype – An Affectionate Character Assassination" "Invisible Girls and Phantom Ladies" "O Superman: Music & comics" "About the Special Executive"
Other work includes:"C.B.? – That's a Big Ten-Four!" and "Bear's Monkey Business" in B.J. and the Bear Annual 1982, article and illustrations"Too Avant Garde for the Mafia?" "Alan Moore's Writing for Comics", Avatar Press, "Comments on Crumb" Comics Forum 4, 1993, transcript of a lecture discussing 1963, feminism, pornography and Image comicsComics Journal No. 167, 1994, tribute to Jack Kirby"Correspondence: From Hell", 1997, letters between Moore and Dave Sim in Cerebus #217–220; reprinted in Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman.Beyond our Ken, 2002, review of works by Kenneth Grant, published at free magazine, '"Rolling Commentary", a political essay on the "War on Terror" "Indoor Thunder: Landscaping the Future With Brian Eno"Technical Vocabularies: Games for May Unearthing, 2006, about Steve Moore, in London: City of Disappearances, edited by Iain Sinclair, hardcover, paperback."" Dodgem Logic #1–8 Buster Brown at the Barricades "Limehouse Variations"'''

Introductions to work by others

The Adventures of Luther Arkwright by Bryan TalbotAlec: Episodes From the Life of Alex McGarrity by Eddie Campbell Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank MillerThe Big Book of Everything by Hunt EmersonBread and Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York by Samuel DelanyBrickman Begins by Lew StringerCleveland by Harvey Pekar and Joseph RemnantDoc Chaos by Dave ThorpeEscapeErotic Comics 2: A Graphic History from the Liberated '70s to the Internet by Tim Pilcher, Abrams ComicArts, 2009Grendel: Devil by the Deed by Matt WagnerGreyshirt: Indigo Sunset by Rick VeitchHellboy: Wake the Devil by Mike MignolaH. P. Lovecraft's The Haunter of the Dark by John Coulthart Mechanics by Jaime Hernandez Mr. Monster: His Book of Forbidden Knowledge by Michael T. GilbertThe One by Rick VeitchPlanetary Volume 1 by Warren Ellis and John CassadayResist Everything Except Temptation: The Anarchist Philosophy of Oscar Wilde by Kristian WilliamsThe Spiral Cage by Al Davison

Audio recordings

March of the Sinister Ducks b/w Old Gangsters Never Die Hexentexts, 1994, Codex, Moore made one track and drew the coverThe Birth Caul, 1996, D.O.R.; adapted for comics by Eddie Campbell, 1999, Eddie Campbell ComicsThe Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, 1996, CleopatraBrought to Light, 1998, Codex BooksThe Highbury Working, 2000, Re:Angel Passage, 2002, Re:Snakes and Ladders, 2003, Readapted for comics by Eddie Campbell, 2001, Eddie Campbell ComicsUnearthing, 2010

Adaptations of Moore works in other media

Comics

Alan Moore's The Courtyard, 2 issues, Avatar Press; story by Moore, adapted for comics by Antony Johnston with artwork by Jacen Burrows. Collected into softcover and hardcover editions by Avatar Press.

Films

Ragnarok, 1982, a British mostly-animated sci-fi adventure, with story/script by Moore. The Return of Swamp Thing, 1989, directed by Jim Wynorski and partially inspired by Moore's comics runFrom Hell, 2001, adaptation directed by the Hughes BrothersThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 2003, adaptation directed by Stephen NorringtonConstantine, 2005, based on the character John Constantine, created by Moore with Steve Bissette, John Totleben and Rick Veitch in Swamp ThingV For Vendetta, 2006, adaptation written by the Wachowskis; directed by James McTeigue Watchmen, 2009, adaptation written by David Hayter and Alex Tse; directed by Zack Snyder Batman: The Killing Joke, 2016, adaptation written by Brian Azzarello; directed by Sam Liu; part of the DC Universe Animated Original Movies series

Television

Works about Alan Moore

There have been numerous works examining Moore and his output.

Books

Alan Moore The Pocket Essentials Kimota! The Miracleman Companion Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore Heroes & Monsters: The Unofficial Companion to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Alan Moore Spells It Out A Blazing World: The Unofficial Companion to the Second League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Alan Moore's Exit Interview Impossible Territories: An Unofficial Companion to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen The Black Dossier The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore – Indispensable Edition Alan Moore: Comics as Performance, Fiction as Scalpel by Annalisa Di Liddo, 212 pages, University Press of Mississippi, 2009, Alan Moore: Storyteller Alan Moore: Conversations Sexual Ideology in the Works of Alan Moore: Critical Essays on the Graphic Novels Magic Words: the Extraordinary Life of Alan Moore Alan Moore and the Gothic Tradition The British Invasion: Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, and the Invention of the Modern Comic Book Writer Alan Moore, Out from the Underground: Cartooning, Performance, and Dissent The Last War in Albion Volume 1: The Early Work of Alan Moore and Grant Morrison
  • ''Alan Moore: A Critical Guide''

Films

The Mindscape of Alan Moore, 2003, Shadowsnake Films