John Higgs intervista Alan Moore sul 20° secolo I had declared to Nes, following his latest review
La luce del tuo volto - Alan Moore - Recensione di nes my intention to delve deeper into the topic regarding the author of the story, and so I semi-immersed myself and gleaned little but enough for now, and in summary here’s what I gathered:
A small biography partially (99.99%) if not entirely copied from Wikipedia in various paragraphs and poorly summarized here.
§ Alan Moore (Northampton, November 18, 1953), um, on the same day our very talented Anna Marchesini was born as well, Italian actress, comedian, and voice actress, RIP, is a British comic book writer, novelist, composer, singer-songwriter, and occultist.
§ He is also a novelist, singer, and songwriter (notable are his theatrical performances: a mix of acting and music, preferably electronic), and from the day of his fortieth birthday, he has proclaimed himself a wizard.
§ Um, Ernest, his father was a worker in a local brewery, and I believe this partly explains many things…
§ Blind in his left eye and deaf in his right ear, Moore nonetheless manages to survive in his neighborhood…[source needed]
§ Due to his parents' work, Alan is raised by his grandmother along with his younger brother Mike or, more often, is left alone…
§ He enrolls in Northampton Grammar School, often skipping classes to have fun with friends…
§ When he is 17, his small LSD distribution operation set up at school is discovered, and as a result, he is expelled…
§ Moore is thus forced to enter the workforce, taking on various odd jobs, um, like sheep shearer or cleaner…
§ He then sold the comic strip Maxwell tha Magic Cat to the Northampton Post, a local newspaper, which he produced for over seven years under the pseudonym Jill Deray, adding another £10 a week to his income.
§ In 1996, he proposed the novel Voice of the Fire, which was translated into Italian in 2006 by Edizioni BD, a complex work through which Moore attempted to describe 6000 years of history of his Northampton.
Despite excellent reviews from critics, commercial success eluded him: the first chapter written entirely in a prehistoric dialect specially devised by the wizard of Northampton certainly didn’t help the novel’s spread.
§ Moore’s idea of atoning for a sort of sin committed with the writing of Watchmen had collapsed when it was proposed in the pages of 1963.
However, Moore had not completely abandoned it, and his choice to dedicate himself to magic actually reinforced it.
Being a vegetarian and therefore unable to carry out rituals and sacrifices involving meat and blood, Moore began to write comics somewhat as if they were spells and partly to try to regain that innocence and spontaneity that had been lost with the advent of the a
