Alan Moore sits down with Screen Rant in a wide-ranging discussion, discussing the state of modern media and his short story collection Illuminations.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The beloved creator of genre-shaping comics such as Watchmen and V for Vendetta, Alan Moore famously left superheroes - and ultimately the entire comics industry - behind, moving on from the medium he helped define to embrace prose writing in projects such as Jerusalem and the recently released Illuminations, now available in paperback from Bloomsbury Publishing.
And yet, there were some wonderful things accomplished by the Beat movement, things that I benefited from. I mean, I was reading the major Beats when I was a teenager and a young man, and that was hugely influential. I wanted to somehow capture all of this, so I thought, ‘right, what I’m going to have to do then is to do a short story that is actually a Beat poem.
One character you’ve written who might be considered a cautionary tale in treading too close to that zone is Snowy Vernall in the Jerusalem chapter 'Eating Flowers.' In terms of the danger of getting caught up in fantasy, what are you trying to say with that idea in Jerusalem? Yeah, in Jerusalem's 'A Host of Angles.' The prose is very structured and fine in that chapter, but then after that moment, everything starts spinning out of control throughout the rest of the book.
Alan Moore: I’d had a desire for some years to – I thought, ‘you know, I really ought to write children’s fiction.’ And then, with the Harry Potter thing, I tended to think, ‘Nooooo. If you do it now, it’ll just look like you’re eager for big bit of this lucrative children’s market. You’ve got a poetic use of prose that makes it the quickest, breeziest Bible-length read imaginable.
I’d heard that people like St. John the Divine, and some of the early Christian mystics, it would’ve been as a result of scourging that they had their visions. That, with uncured leather they’re flailing their backs, and they’re getting ill, and they’re having fever dreams. So, I thought, ‘well, there’s probably a story there,’ but it took me 30, 40 years to actually get around to doing it. But when I did, I just thought, ‘well, let’s just do this as dialogue.
And it's also sort of a throwback to the Francis Tresham chapter in Voice of the Fire, 'Confessions of a Mask.' Alan Moore Fixes Popular Entertainment Finally, you've talked before about what you see as a decline in popular entertainment. I was wondering - given your experience with small press or self-published magazines - if you think part of the problem lies in how to produce and distribute good stories.
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