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Alan Moore, né le 18 novembre 1953 à Northampton, est un scénariste de bande dessinée et écrivain britannique dont les œuvres les plus connues sont les comics Watchmen, V pour Vendetta et From Hell.

Moore commence sa carrière au Royaume-Uni avant de travailler pour des éditeurs américains. Célèbre pour avoir rendu dans les années 1980 les comics plus matures et plus littéraires, il a également beaucoup apporté à la forme du médium, par des effets de mise en page inédits jusqu'alors. Ses influences, très diverses, comptent des auteurs comme William S. Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Mayer et Iain Sinclair, des écrivains de science-fiction comme Michael Moorcock et d'horreur comme H.P. Lovecraft, Clive Barker, des cinéastes comme Nicolas Roeg. En bande dessinée, l'influence de Bryan Talbot, précurseur de la bande dessinée « adulte » avec The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, a été déterminante.

Végétarien et connu pour ses opinions anarchistes, il se présente par ailleurs comme un magicien et un adorateur de Glycon, une divinité-serpent romaine.

✵ 18. novembre 1953
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Alan Moore citations célèbres

“L’art est supposé nous aider à comprendre le monde dans lequel on vit, malgré ses métamorphoses et évolutions les plus complexes. Actuellement, tout change si vite que personne, absolument personne n’arrive à suivre. L’art est plus vital actuellement que jamais. À la place, il fait tout le contraire.”

Alan Moore

Sur l'art

“L’art est supposé nous aider à comprendre le monde dans lequel on vit, malgré ses métamorphoses et évolutions les plus complexes. Actuellement, tout change si vite que personne, absolument personne n’arrive à suivre. L’art est plus vital actuellement que jamais. A la place, il fait tout le contraire.”

Alan Moore

Sur l'art

“Je suis fier de faire partie de la working class.”

Alan Moore

Je me sens plus libre grâce à ça. Plus fort aussi. Jérusalem est une célébration de nos principes.
Sur la classe ouvrière

“Je pense que Jérusalem est une très bonne affaire. C’est le seul roman que je connaisse qui promet de manière catégorique l’immortalité à ses lecteurs. Il me semble que c’est assez généreux et j’espère qu’ils l’apprécieront.”

Alan Moore

Sur son roman Jérusalem

“Le fait que des centaines de millions de soi-disant adultes se rendent au cinéma tous les six mois pour aller voir Batman m’inquiète beaucoup. On dit de moi que je suis rancunier, que je déteste les super-héros, mais ça n’a rien à voir. On parle de gens de 30, 50 ou 70 ans qui se délectent des aventures de personnages créés pour distraire des adolescents de 12 ans il y a cinquante ans. On me dit que les comics sont pour les adultes désormais, qu’il n’y a pas de mal à s’amuser. Je remarque pourtant que l’année où Donald Trump a été élu et une majorité du peuple britannique a voté pour le Brexit, les six premiers films au box-office mondial étaient des films de super-héros.”

Alan Moore

Sur les super-héros

Alan Moore: Citations en anglais

“Truly, whoever we are, wherever we reside, we exist upon the whim of murderers.”

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Alan Moore livre Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

“Her name is. And she has taught me more as a mistress than[Justice] ever did! She has taught me thatis meaningless without. is honest. makes no promises and breaks none. Unlike,.”

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Source: V for Vendetta, Vol. II of X

“By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.”

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Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

“The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him… [from Macbeth]”

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Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

“They offered you a choice between the death of your principles and the death of your body. You said you'd rather die. You faced the fear of your own death, and you were calm and still.”

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Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

“Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap.”

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Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

“Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike… except in California.”

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Alan Moore livre Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

“The superman exists and he's American.”

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Alan Moore livre Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

“Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world…”

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Alan Moore livre Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

“I did the right thing, didn't I? It all worked out in the end.'In the end'? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.”

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Alan Moore livre Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

“Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist.”

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Alan Moore livre Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

“Sex is glorious, it's how we all got here, and it's most people's favourite activity.”

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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/alan-moore-the-reluctant-hero-64407.html

“Remember? Ohh, I wouldn't do that! Remembering's dangerous. I find the past such a worrying, anxious place.

"The past tense", I supposed you'd call it. Ha ha ha.”

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Alan Moore livre Batman: The Killing Joke

Source: Batman: The Killing Joke

“I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.”

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Alan Moore livre Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

“For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain… It just won't be the same.”

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Source: V for Vendetta, Vol. I of X

“My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.”

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Alan Moore

Source: Lost Girls, libro 3: Grande y terrible

“Som-Som would later learn that the girl's name was Book. Ambiguous and suggestive sentences swirled out from the maroon bud of her nipple. Verses of elegant and cryptic passion followed the orbit of her left eye. Her fingers dripped with poetry.”

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Alan Moore Alan Moore's Hypothetical Lizard

Alan Moore's Hypothetical Lizard, #1 (January 2005)
Alan Moore's Hypothetical Lizard (January 2005 - May 2005)

“If you look at early shamanic texts and cultures, the magical powers that the shaman hopes the gods might give him, flying, turning into animals, invisibility, poetry – as if poetry was a magic power. As if it was the equivalent of turning into a dog or flying. As if. What does this tell us? Maybe there was a time when we could legitimately ask the gods for it as a gift. But we know there aren’t any gods, and that they can’t give those gifts, so the best thing we can do is go to church, listen to the lesson and hope we don’t burn. Have no direct contact with whatever form of god we choose to worship. It’s like the magical or spiritual equivalent of the big flaw in Marxism. Karl Marx, lovely geezer, very humane, a bit middle class but we’ll gloss over that, but his big flaw was that when he said “The reins of society will inevitably rest in the hands of those who control the means of production” didn’t take into account middle management. All the people who get between those with the means of production and the society. That translates onto a spiritual level as the shift from our earliest beliefs, which are all shamanic.”

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Alan Moore

De Abaitua interview (1998)

“Murder? Don't talk to me about murder. I invented murder!”

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Alan Moore

Cain, Saga of the Swamp Thing #33
Swamp Thing (1983–1987)

“I can deal with functionality on a practical level. And I still have this relationship with this imaginary snake. My imaginary pal. If I’m going to be dealing in totally imaginary territory, it struck me that it would be useful to have a native as a guide. So I can have my imaginary conversations with my imaginary snake, and maybe it gives me information I already knew in part of myself, and maybe I just needed to make up an imaginary snake to tell me it.”

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De Abaitua interview (1998)

“What had originally been a straightforward battle of ideas between anarchy and fascism had been turned into a kind of ham-fisted parable of 9-11 and the war against terror, in which the words anarchy and fascism appear nowhere. … It struck me that for Hollywood to make V for Vendetta, it was a way for thwarted and impotent American liberals to feel that they were making some kind of statement about how pissed off they were with the current situation without really risking anything. It’s all set in England, which I think that probably, in most American eyes, is kind of a fairytale kingdom where we still perhaps still have giants. It doesn’t really exist; it might as well be in the Land of Oz for most Americans. So you can get set your political parable in this fantasy environment called England, and then you can vent your spleen against George Bush and the neo-conservatives. Those were my feelings, and I must admit those are completely based upon not having seen the film even once, but having read a certain amount of the screenplay. That was enough.”

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On the film adaptation of V for Vendetta
Alan Moore on Anarchism (2009)

“When modern horror films or fundamentalists talk about “demons,” they mean something very different than what Socrates meant by the term. It was a lot closer to what I was talking about: the essential drive, the highest self, if you like. So maybe there is a connection, when I met, or appeared to meet, a demon. It was a little bit frightening at first, but after a while we found that we got on OK and we could have a civilized conversation, and I found him very engaging, very pleasant. And it struck me that this was a brilliant literal example of the process of demonization. That when I had approached the demon with fear and loathing, it was fearsome and loathsome. When I approached it with respect, then it was respectable. And I thought, All right, there’s a kind of mirroring that is going on here that is probably applicable to a wide number of social situations. The people or classes of people that we demonize, and that we treat with fear and loathing, respond accordingly. We are projecting a persona of manner of behavior upon them, as well as responding to a manner of behavior that’s already there. When we’re looking at the flaws in their personality that we are able to recognize, the fact that we can recognize them suggests that they are probably in some way a version of flaws that we have ourselves.”

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As quoted in ""HEY, YOU CAN JUST MAKE STUFF UP." Differences between magic and art: None" https://www.believermag.com/issues/201306/?read=interview_moore, by Peter Bebergal, The Believer, (2013).
The Believer interview (2013)

“The DC comics were always a lot more true blue. Very enjoyable, but they were big, brave uncles and aunties who probably insisted on a high standard of you know mental and physical hygiene. Whereas the Stan Lee stuff, the Marvel comics, he went from one dimensional characters whose only characteristic was they dressed up in costumes and did good. Whereas Stan Lee had this huge breakthrough of two-dimensional characters. So, they dress up in costumes and do good, but they've got a bad heart. Or a bad leg. I actually did think for a long while that having a bad leg was an actual character trait.”

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Interview on BBC Radio 4 (27 January 2005) http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=4533

“They were kept in the dark, squatting there with nothing to dwell upon beyond the fact they were unclean. Even the touch of their shadow would sour the land, blighting crops that grew there…. At the end of their confinement they were led out blinking into the harsh and masculine glare of the sun. Their clothing was taken from them and destroyed. Their anger in darkness turning, unreleased, unspoken, its mouth a red wound…”

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Alan Moore, Swamp Thing #40 The Curse
Swamp Thing (1983–1987)

“I suppose that the main drive is to find the edge of something and then throw myself over it.”

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Alan Moore V for Vendetta

On the issue of creativity, from the interview with Channel 4, "V for Vendetta: the man behind the mask" (11 January 2012) http://www.channel4.com/news/v-for-vendetta-the-man-behind-the-mask

“I saw no reason why you couldn't create a work of pornography that adhered to all the same standards as the best art or literature. The big difference between art and pornography is that art, at its best, makes you feel less alone. You see a painting or read a piece of writing that expresses a thought that you had but didn't express, and you suddenly feel less alone. Pornography, on the other hand, tends to engender feelings of self-disgust, isolation and wretchedness. I wanted to change that.”

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http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/alan-moore-the-reluctant-hero-64407.html

“I like a film where you can see every penny of the budget up there on the screen.”

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De Abaitua interview (1998)

“Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.”

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"The Craft" - interview with Daniel Whiston, Engine Comics (January 2005)

“Memories so treacherous…”

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Batman : The Killing Joke (1988)

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