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Alan Moore confirms he is retiring from comics

September 9th, 2016 by Marc Comments

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Alan Moore

Comic book writer Alan Moore has announced his retirement from the medium.

He confirmed the news at a press conference for his latest work, Jerusalem.

Best known for helping create Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, Moore said he had “about 250 pages of comics left in me” during the event.

There are a couple of issues of an Avatar [Press] book that I am doing at the moment, part of the HP Lovecraft work I’ve been working on recently,” he said. “Me and Kevin will be finishing Cinema Purgatorio and we’ve got about one more book, a final book of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to complete. After that, although I may do the odd little comics piece at some point in the future, I am pretty much done with comics.

Jerusalem is named after William Blake’s poem exploring the history of Moore’s native Northampton through several lives. He also said that it would not be adapted into a film, “or not at least if I have any say in the matter”.

Source: Guardian

Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….