p298 extra $20 – Don Murphy, email correspondence for this book May 2013 [Murphy]
p298 puzzling – Moore, PC
p298 Rich Veitch – Veitch discusses this at comicon.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=447439&page=4,#447288 – 02/26/00 09:45 AM Re: Question about this week’s CBG Cover Topic
p299 smugly proud – CBA25, p54
p299 Gorillaz – Strange Attractor #4 (March 2011)
p300 Glyconism – Egomania
p300 musical partner – Arthur
CHAPTER IX
p301 four adaptations – Constantine (2005) featured a character co-created by AM, but was not adapted from comics written by him
p302 make us rich – Lloyd
p303 intrigued and interested – movieweb.com/news/producer-joel-silver-and-director-james-mcteigue-talk-v-for-vendetta
p303 Samurai – Interview65, pp64–5
p303 Schwarzenegger – Interview65
p304 but killed it – Bob McCabe, Dark Knights & Holy Fools: The Art and Films of Terry Gilliam (Universe, 1999), p144 [McCabe]
p304 Therein lies – Portrait (Introduction)
p304 two fools – Holy, p144
p305 Paul Revere; Rupert Bear – Peter Murphy, ‘Eroto-graphic Mania’, The New Review (August 2007) [New07]
p306 Uslan – Scene7, pp55–6
p306 Battleship Potemkin – Storyteller
p307 Tundra – Murphy
p307 synopsis – Companion p167
p307 laundry lists – New07
p307 the first issue – CBA25
p307 idea sheet – Murphy
p307 lucrative for Moore – bleedingcool.com/forums/dc-comics/61526-did-alan-moore-turn-down-two-million-bless-watchmen-prequels-8.htmlpost403677
p307 under the illusion – Tim Franks, HARDtalk, BBC News 24, April 2012
p308 Barry Norman – news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1295972.stm
p308 Robert Stam, ‘Literature and Film: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation (Blackwell, 2005), p3. Stam goes on to tease out seven common beliefs that lead people to think that novels are superior to movies: older arts are better arts; there’s a rivalry between genres; the visual arts are inferior to the written; literature is seen as more thoughtful and less spectacular; movies are easier to watch than books are to read so spoonfeed their audience; class prejudice; movies are seen as parasitical. Interestingly, it’s possible that none of these apply to comics as compared with movies, but when comics adaptations are discussed, the discourse is very similar
p309 convince a studio – From Hell, DVD 2-disc edition, ‘Graphic Novel’ extra
p309 parlour game – classic.tcj.com/interviews/the-eddie-campbell-interview-part-one-of-four
p309 American world empire – Iain Sinclair, ‘Jack the Rip-off’, Guardian (28 January 2002) [Sinclair]
p310 certainly improved – Deppey
p310 little substance – threemoviebuffs.com
p310 comics any day – Jennifer Vineyard, The Last Angry Man, MTV (2005)
p310 slasher film – classic.tcj.com/interviews/the-eddie-campbell-interview-part-one-of-four/
p311 reports from Prague – Uncut. Hawthorne was cast as Gull (after the original choice, Sean Connery dropped out to make The Avengers instead), but was diagnosed with cancer very shortly afterwards. He died in December 2001.
p311 sainthood – uncredited, ‘Mad Man’, Newsweek (17 October 2001) [Newsweek]
p311 on video – Steve Rose, ‘Moore’s Murderer’, Guardian (1 February 2002) [Guardian02]
p311 had fun – Murphy
p311 unfilmable – Exit, p12
p312 quite the opposite – Scott Thill, ‘Alan Moore: Comics Won’t Save You, but Dodgem Logic Might’, Wired (31 December 2009) [Wired]
p312 useless – villagevoice.com/2003-07-15/film/die-another-day/1
p313 literate pedigree – Charles Taylor, ‘Review: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’, Salon, 11 July 2003
p313 whim of an actor – MTV
p313 lawsuit – donmurphy.net/codgers.html
p314 Lost Girls – Panel08
p314 Still haven’t – Murphy
p315 briefed to write it – andydiggle.com/alanmooreinterview.htm
p315 conspiring with the head of the studio – Murphy
p315 exonerate himself – NYT Notice of settlement retrieved from legalmetric.com/cases/copyright/cacd/cacd_203cv06906.html, 12-29-200315 Notice of settlement selection procedure by defendants Fox Entertainment Group and 20th Century Fox Film Corporation (mg) [Entry date 12/30/03]
p315 swearing off; they had nothing – Murphy
p315 funny side – Exit, p14
p316 within three days – Chain5. This is possible: the three days would fall in late September or early October 2003.
p317 perplexed, ‘Moore Leaves the Watchmen 15 Anniversary Plans’, Newsarama (August 2000)
p318 not been reciprocated – Exit
p318 secretly wanted – comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=1493720=article
p319 pure bliss – bigpicturebigsound.com/article_700.shtml Joe Lozito 17/03/06
p319 faithful to the book – Exit, p17
p320 au fait – comicbookresources.com/?page=article&old=1&id=6685
p320 retraction – Exit, pp19–25
p320 FedCo – Lying, 23 May 2005. It’s not too difficult to deduce that AM’s friend was Steve Moore, who had been hired to write the novelisation, not least because his book works in a few sly comments. When the colloqualisms of one character’s dialogue are laid on a little thick, someone notes they ‘half expected her to break into Cockney rhyming slang and refer to going up the apple-an-pears or talkin’ on the ol’ dog-an’-bone’ (p47)
p321 core of it – Lloyd
p321 ever been understood – Exit, p51
p322 cowboy’s guns – Spencer Lamm and Sharon Bray (eds), V for Vendetta: From Script to Film, (Universe, 2006), p176 [Script]
p322 serious advances – MTV
p322 James R. Keller, V for Vendetta as Cultural Pastiche: A Critical Study of the Graphic Novel and Film (McFarland, 2008) [Keller], p194. Keller’s argument often seems to depend on the story having its genesis in 1988, the year DC started to publish it – for example his citing of Terry Gilliam’s movie Brazil (1985) as a possible source (Chapter 5 passim)
p322 viral avenger – Keller, p15
p322 AIDS avenger – Keller, p199
p323 deemed homosexual – Script, p240
p324 liberal fantasy – MTV
p324 rudderless – Mindscape
p324 Yes it is upsetting – Exit, p47
p325 timid – MTV
p325 fascism and anarchy – Exit
p325 superhero – Script, p209
p325 regard to rulers – Buster
p326 fireworks – efilmcritic.com/review.php?movie=13855&reviewer=416
p326 People should not be – ‘When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty’, attributed to John Jason Barnhill at monticello.org/site/jefferson/when-governments-fear-people-there-libertyquotation. Barnhill was a London-based poet, essayist, anarchist, socialist and Nietzschean who used his magazine The Eagle and the Serpent (written 1898–1902 under the pseudonym John Erwin McCall) to express the belief that certain individuals were supermen shortly to usher in an enlightened age, but they weren’t to be found among the aristocracy. He declared approvingly, ‘a race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists’. Barnhill was, then, an anarchist self-publisher obsessed with the concept of the superman. History does not record if he ever visited Northampton
p327 Extraordinary Animals – Sam Ashurst, ‘Why Alan Moore Hates Comic Book Movies’, Total Film (2 February 2009)
p328 validates it – Storyteller
p328 combination of both – Wired
p329 Prague – CBA25, p73
p329 spitting venom – Geoff Boucher, ‘Hero Complex’, Los Angeles Times (18 September 2008) [L
A]
p329 devout – James Parker, ‘The Sorcery of Alan Moore’, The Atlantic (1 May 2009)
p329 hard R – LA
p330 computer graphic – FA100
p331 copious slo-mo – totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/watchmen
p331 overlong – washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/05/movies-watchmen-leap-into-action/ixzz2FcUvuBYl
p331 hhhhhhhhhhmmmmm – comicbookmovie.com/comics/news/?a=9516cggwIFEjJvThG3tA.99
p331 check back – Wired
p332 full-blown ten – comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=36726
p332 emotionally distant – newsarama.com/comics/jms-before-watchmen-details.htmlI
p332 fairly unremarkable – David Hughes, The Greatest Sci-fi Movies Never Made (Titan, 2001), pp146–8
p332 ‘multiple platforms’ – Wired
p333 Altman or Coppola – Writing, pp4–5
p333 fragmenting – AV09
p333 box office – According to boxofficemojo.com, From Hell had a budget of $35m, an $11m opening weekend, total domestic box office of $31.6m and international take (excluding the US) of $42.9m. LXG’s figures were $78m, $23m, $66m/$112m, V for Vendetta $54m, $25.6m, $70m/$62m, and Watchmen was $130m, $55m, $107m/$78m
p334 yoghurt – Martin Cannon, Critics’ Choice Volume 1, p12
p334 first murder – 4colorheroes.com/fromhell7.html lists the print runs for most of the issues, as follows: 1: 15,000; 3: 3405; 4: 4230; 5: 4355; 6: 4125; 7: 4090; 8: 4170
p334 total had doubled – eddiecampbell.blogspot.com/2008/12/c-hris-mclaren-has-posted-seven-photos.html
p334 oeuvre – One striking example is that on the back cover of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Omnibus, DC describe AM as the writer of ‘From Hell and Watchmen’, rather than naming another of his books they publish
p335 million copies – NYT
p335 Egyptian – youtube.com/watch?v=UNggw8xDaE0
p335 tide of idiocy – Bram E. Gieben, ‘Alan Moore: Unearthed and Uncut’, Weaponiser, 2010 – an uncut version of interview at skinny.co.uk/books/features/100258-choose_your_reality_alan_moore_unearthed) [Weaponiser]
p336 unfair – Seraphemera
CHAPTER X
p337 barely knew – Panel08
p337 works wonders – AV06
p337 between Big Numbers – CC
p337 great modern – Sneddon11
p338 anarchic visionary – Channel Four News, 11 January 2012 (see youtube.com/watch?v=FumNSfY7SfI)
p338 rural – Strictly, Dorothy and Wendy are not from different generations – Dorothy first appeared in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and Wendy in the stage play of Peter Pan (1904)
p338 bowler hat – journal.neilgaiman.com/2007/05/interrogatory.html
p339 obsessed with rape – rollingstone.com/music/news/grant-morrison-on-the-death-of-comics-20110822ixzz2AQNXmauq. In fact Morrison’s The Filth includes a number of rapes and examples of women coerced into having sex. One major subplot of his The Invisibles involves a videotape of Princess Diana being raped by an extradimensional monster
p339 child together – A common misreading is that the Comedian rapes Silk Spectre and Laurie is conceived as a result. The Comedian attempts to rape Silk Spectre in 1940, but is prevented from doing so by Hooded Justice. Laurie is not born until 1949
p340 windmills – TCJ118, p64
p340 rapture – Jess Nevins, ‘A Blazing World’ (Monkeybrain, 2004) [Blazing]. Reprinted in Conversations
p340 sexual act – Mindscape
p341 Sunday funnies – Dodgem Logic
p341 eight pages – Noel Murray, ‘Lost Girls’, Onion AV Club (20 September 2006)
p341 fiercest – AM, ‘Bog Venus versus Nazi Cock Ring’, Arthur #25 (2006). Reprinted as ‘25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom’ (2009) [Venus]
p341 banjo – reason.com/archives/2004/12/01/disneys-war-against-the-counte
p341 Jupiter – Graham Lord, John Mortimer: The Secret Lives of Rumpole’s Creator (Thomas Dunne, 2006), p152
p342 cure – Reflex, pp20–1
p343 sangfroid – Works, p158
p343 Chanel; fidelity – Panel08
p343 $350,000 – comicbookresources.com/?page=article&old=1&id=8374
p344 incredibly proud – AV06
p344 not obscene – comicbookresources.com/?page=article&old=1&id=8374
p344 Neil Gaiman, Signature Review: Lost Girls, Publishers Weekly (19 June 2006)
p345 Dworkin – Venus
p345 Denmark – AV06
p346 Dark Ages – Venus
p347 Freud – AV06
p347 warheads – AM, ‘No More Sex’, Escape #15 (1988)
p347 sixteen years – AV06
p348 Patriot-News – Chris Mautner, ‘We Wanted to do Something Which Solved a Lot of the Abiding Problems that Pornography Has’, Patriot-News (25 August 2006) [Mautner]. Reprinted in Conversations.
p348 In spite – Paul Gravett, ‘Three Go Mad in …’, Independent on Sunday (1 October 2006)
p348 higher demand – comicbookresources.com/?page=article&old=1&id=8374
p348 backordered – icv2.com/articles/news/9602.html
p348 artistic benefit – Sardinian
p349 happy new year – Today, BBC Radio 4, 31 December 2011
p349 Rosetta Stone – Todd A. Comer, Joseph Michael Sommers (eds), Sexual Ideology in the Works of Alan Moore (McFarland, 2012)
p350 slender thread – Exit, p9
p350 early 2007 – ratmmjess.livejournal.com/132469.html
p350 Jeez – CBA25
p351 John Nee – Murphy
p351 boot – comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=14937%20=article
p352 fulsome – Exit, p36
p352 The Walking Dead – robot6.comicbookresources.com/2012/11/mint-copy-of-the-walking-dead-1-fetches-10000-on-ebay
p353 ruthless concept – rollingstone.com/music/news/grant-morrison-on-the-death-of-comics-20110822ixzz2HQdr0JHw
p353 insurance fire – PanelMagic
p353 top-flight – Tantimedh
p354 carrot – NYT
p354 unpretentious – Steve Rose, ‘Unearthing the truth about Watchmen Genius Alan Moore’, Guardian, 24 July 2010
p354 paranoid – Skinn
p355 imprisoned – web.archive.org/web/20011118115828/ www.eddiecampbellcomics.com/fromhell/history.htmle schedule
p355 Click. That was it – AV09
p355 slightly longer – Moore, PC
p356 abandon us – TCJ185, p69
p356 trash – Moore, PC
p356 hates doing business – AV09
p356 canon – bleedingcool.com/2012/07/27/dave-gibbons-dismisses-before-watchmen-as-really-not-canon/
p357 pay tribute – comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=36724
p357 terminally ill – Storyteller David Uzumeri, ‘Alan Moore Goes Beyond Paranoid in His Latest Crazy Old Man Rant’, Comics Alliance (9 September 2010)
p358 creepy – Tantimedh
p358 talented as hell – Murphy
p358 politically savvy – Skinn
p358 charts – bleedingcool.com/2013/03/08/idw-gains-marketshare-from-marvel-and-dc-as-justice-league-of-america-1-tops-the-february-2013-charts/
p358 perennial – Respectively 29th, 32nd and 44th in 2011, 14th, 24th and 38th in 2012. www.newsarama.com/comics/diamond-2012-year-end-comic-book-sales-report.html; diamondcomics.com/Home/1/1/3/597?articleID=117102
p359 Meltzer – comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2006/2006-08.html
p360 couple of years earlier – Morrison has objected to the idea he followed AM into the comics industry (e.g. at comicsbeat.com/the-strange-case-of-grant-morrison-and-alan-moore-as-told-by-grant-morrison), correctly noting that his first professional sales came before Moore’s. There isn’t the generation gap critics occasionally assert – they were both teenagers in the early seventies and broke into the comics industry a decade later. There are certainly a few years in the mid-eighties, though, where Morrison’s career trails AM’s. In 1986, the year Watchmen s
tarted, Morrison’s most high-profile work was writing a back-up strip based on the Zoids toys for Marvel UK’s Spider-Man and Zoids
p360 unfathomable – Storyteller
p360 couple of million – Leftlion
p361 sounds stupid – Moore, PC
p361 Ginger – Observer12
p361 empowerment – Leftlion
p361 bills – Wired
p362 thriving, vital – Joel Meadows, ‘Alphabet Soupcon’, Tripwire Spring Special (April 2000)
p362 occult school – Arthur
p362 Borderland – AM, The House on the Borderland, Introduction
p363 Stenographers – AM, ‘Prism and Pentecost: David Lindsay and the British Apocalypse’ (Introduction to A Voyage to Arcturus, Savoy, 2002) [Arcturus]
p363 significantly shared – Di Liddo, p172
p364 purer – Rapid, p172
p365 vaginal monsters – Weaponiser
p365 isn’t a Too Far – Writing
p365 gone too far – Weaponiser
p365 back rooms – Storyteller
p366 phrasebook – Arthur
p366 2017 – Nigh
p366 orgasm – Snakes and Ladders
p366 great change – Moore, PC
p367 chasm – Occupied Times
p367 form of blog – Dodgem Logic #1
p368 anecdotes – Mindscape
p368 less cosmopolitan – Nicole Le Marie, ‘Renowned writer Alan Moore pens huge book based in historic area of Northampton’, Northampton Chronicle (13 March 2012)
p368 nostalgie – Arkensword13/14
p370 mythical – Leftlion
p370 pointy – bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15359735
p370 glow – ‘Alan Moore Still Knows the Score’, Entertainment Weekly (16 July 2008)
p370 digging up – Sneddon11
p370 United Arab Emirates – thenational.ae/news/uae-news/guy-fawkes-masks-banned-from-uae-national-day-celebrations
p371 downtrodden – Observer12
p371 temper – Maxwell
p373 pamphlet – uncredited, distributed in 2011, and linking to aforanarchy.com. Reproduced at slackbastard.anarchobase.com/?p=170
p373 vested – AM, ‘Preoccupying’, Occupied Times (22 October 2012)
p373 illuminate – Mindscape
p374 minor works – Pádraig Ó Méalóid, ‘Lunar Man’, Forbidden Planet International website (11 November 2011)
p374 Serpent project – QuietusSM
p374 sublimated – Wired
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