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In
a recent interview (available at http://comicsuk.mkm-wpe.com)
answering a "what is comics for you?" question, Mr. Alan
Moore said:
Comics is
for me an art form which is of tremendous importance but which
is largely marginalized, is seen as unimportant. The more I
look at comics, the more interesting they become. It strikes
me that comics are perhaps the original human art form, that
a sequence of pictures telling a story has got to be one of
the oldest forms of language, whether you’re talking about Egyptian
hieroglyphics or Chinese ideograms. […] There’s still such a
lot that could be done with comics, still new forms that can
be achieved and imagined. I’ve been doing them for twenty years;
I’m nowhere near reaching the limit of what comics can do. [...]
Even if the spotlight of public attention moves away, that won’t
faze me in the slightest. It’s still a form I can see potential
in, it probably sounds arrogant but that’s the only person I’m
interested in. If I can see the potential there, there’s potential
there, it doesn’t matter if other people can’t see it. In fact,
I’d probably rather I was the only one who could see it; there’d
be more for me, all the more unbroken ground. […] I cannot imagine
a point in the future where I will completely abandon comics
for another media. I think there’s enough there for me to continue
working with different combinations of words and images for
the rest of my days. It’s a boundless ocean that I could get
lost in; I would really like to see a few more people taking
the plunge.
Among
these words we can find the key to understand.
The
starting point to comprehend the true power of the best writer comic
art has ever had.
In
these words all becomes clear and we can feel, as a tangible thing,
the passion Mr. Moore has for the comics medium.
This
passion is the natural propelling force he uses to imagine words
and worlds.
It’s
passion that feeds technique and structure, that gives him the input
to ideate anomalous comics masterpieces such as Watchmen, V for
Vendetta, From Hell.
It’s
passion that makes him happy to play with minor toys such as Supreme
or Mr. Majestic breathing in them a shining life.
It’s
passion that moves his respect for the audience and the artists.
It’s this passion that gives him the impulse to put on paper thousands
of words to describe a single panel.
And
again it’s this inextinguishable feeling that guides Mr. Moore in
the deep waters of comics ocean while all the others stay around
the coasts.
Long
life to the Long-haired Bearded Genius and… long life to comic art!
[Alan Moore’s portrait
by Bill Sienkiewicz and taken from http://dreamers.com/karetos]
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