Hey everyone. Two days ago we talked about Watchmen, about Alan Moore. And that's why I thought it was a good idea to talk about the writer himself.
Not of each one of his novels but about all of his work of this great artist and graphic novel writer, for you to see examples of his work, which he stills does.
He has done a little bit of everything. I'll put here my favorites and some of his most popular work. But he has done more and has collaborated in comic books.
And he has done a little bit of everything. He has a very prolific career. About his characters, his design of them, is that he likes them to be very deep.
He likes them to think a lot, to reflect on everything and be philosophical in their personalities. Obviously, the "drawings" are not done by Alan Moore.
He doesn't do that because he's a writer. In a graphic novel there's always a writer and an artist, who does all the drawings and puts everything in place.
Alan Moore is the one that decides what happens. He's does not define the graphic design of the characters but he probably has some suggestions for the artist,
so that the artist can really get what the characters are like. Weirdly enough, most of his characters have angular faces, their facial traits are really defined.
And I think that it goes with their personality. They're very deep, with lots of existential problem like Swam Thing or like the killer in From Hell.
They all have issues to resolve, some more serious than others like with that killer. It's a very big issue to catch that killer in London. It's Jack the Ripper.
But others like Swamp Thing have more unique problems, not so common. They are conflictive and they're not good or bad. They are all a little bit of both.
There are bad characters like the Comedian in Watchmen. They don't have any good in them, they are all bad and could even be deemed nasty.
And he has other more heroic characters. They can do it all and sacrifice themselves for others, like Nemo in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
or like Night Owl from Watchmen. And, of course, V from V for Vendetta who's the biggest hero around. But even he isn't a completely good person.
He has dark aspects to him, surely related to everything that happened to him, so he's capable of doing things that could be questionable.
So he has a great assortment of characters and the amount of stories he invents adjust themselves to those characters. They represent our society and
they represent what we see every day. We can see a lot of contemporary society. In Watchmen, V for Vendetta and the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
It all reflects our real society, wether it is in the Victorian times, the near future or in an alternate reality. Even then, we see our world and I think he has a lot to say about it.
I will put pictures here of Alan Moore and you will see a person that doesn't really "look" like an artist, certainly not a graphic novel writer.
And he seems to be a very private person, probably not very into the world today. Things like cellphones and apps and our connections with each other.
I even think that his most recent work doesn't really talk about that but goes into more general things like our systems of government, decision making and such.
He wants us to talk about those subjects, question them and really think about them. Of course, that's what artists want in general. They want us to think.
They want us to really think and say "Maybe this is not okay, maybe this is okay" or just realize differences between characters. There's a bit of everything in the world.
And I think that's what Alan Moore wants, he wants to illustrate the real world and the people living in it in his fictitious worlds, even extraordinary characters
It's very interesting. In every one of his graphic novels you will see a whole world opening up that reflects thing we have in real life that we don't want to see.
That's why his characters are so well crafted , as well as the scenarios and everything that happens. They do not require lots of chapters or books.
It can all be summed up in one book, like in V for Vendetta. That novel doesn't need prequels or sequels, it's a work of art in itself and that makes it a masterpiece.
He's one of the best in the genre and I hope he keeps publishing because he's a great writer and there are things of him I haven't read yet.
I highly recommend to read his novels. Give his books as presents, not only in Christmas but in birthdays in order to make people go into the world of graphic novels.
And of course, if you have any recommendations, do them below. Tell me what are your favorite graphic novels from Alan Moore, what you've like and what you haven't.
What books of him do you want me to talk about? If you'd like that. I'd love to talk about his work and of course graphic novels. I'll do more videos about them.
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