Author Susanna Clarke interviews comics genius Alan Moore about a variety of subjects for The Telegraph. And as always, Moore provides all sorts of great quotes, like this one on sex in Swamp Thing and Lost Girls:
‘After a couple of years, it had hit me that it might be possible to do a story about sex that didn’t involve a swamp monster,’ he says. ‘It was an outrageous, wacky idea?…’
This one on men and pornography:
‘Frankly,’ says Moore, ‘creating a piece of pornography that men will respond to isn’t rocket science. Charlie Brooker wrote in The Guardian that men get aroused simply by glancing at a crude charcoal sketch of a single boob scrawled on the side of a shed. Quite wretched, and probably true. Most visual pornography is lit as if for brain surgery – the most repulsive strip-lighting imaginable. Every pore, every hair visible. Not in any way sensual. But thanks to Melinda’s artwork, there was almost no conceivable scene that, if it were approached with enough layers of soft, beautiful colour, could be said to be obscene.
And this one on society and the sexualization of kids:
‘It is undeniable that a huge part of mass sexuality has this obsession with children. I’m not just talking about the paedophile chat-rooms or websites, I’m talking about broad culture. We are on the one hand rightly decrying the abuses of children, but on the other hand we are sexualising children at an incredibly young age. We had the Spice Girls bringing about a situation – not entirely on their own – where every 10-year-old girl in the country wanted a belly-button ring and wanted to zig-a-zig ahh.’
Yes, Moore quotes the Spice Girls. Priceless.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Sex without swamp monsters is like a day without sunshine.
October 8th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
There’s a reason this guy is at the top of the comic book food chain–and this interview makes that notion resound with clarity. He’s the James Joyce of this industry.
October 8th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Hmmm… think I’ve heard of him. Didn’t he once write a Vigilante story?
October 8th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
“Miracleman From Hell” sounds awesome!
October 9th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
“Hmmm… think I’ve heard of him. Didn’t he once write a Vigilante story?”
“Father’s Day,” in issues #16 & 17 of the Adrian Chase run, yes.
And about 3 decades or so worth of other stuff.
October 9th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
I like the “brain surgery” line.
October 9th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
RMC… Dude, you don’t REALLY only know Moore from Vigilante do you?
I mean, this is the man who also wrote stories for WildCATS, Supreme and Spawn, by god! How could you not have read those astounding works??
October 9th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Wasn’t there some Violator mini, too? Killer clowns, my friend. Killer clowns.
December 29th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Each sub culture and independent people have their own views of what is considered desirable, as far as physical beauty is concerned, and many people will go to great lengths to change their figure to reflect that perception of ideal natural beauty.