About the Book
This book consists of articles from Wikia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Alan Moore, Alex Akerbladh, Barrie Appleby, Barry Appleby, Bryan Talbot, C. D. Bagnall, C. L. Doughty, Carlos Ezquerra, Charlie Adlard, David Wright, Davy Francis, Davy Law, Don Harley, Don Lawrence, Dudley D. Watkins, Eric Bradbury, Eric Eden, Evelyn Flinders, Frank Bellamy, Frank Hampson, Frank Humphris, Freddie Adkins, Geoff Campion, Gerry Embleton, Harold Johns, Ian Kennedy, Jeff Anderson, Jim Baikie, Joe Colquhoun, John Cooper, John Kent, John McLusky, John Wagner, Julius Stafford-Baker, Keith Watson, Ken Reid, Kevin O'Neill, Kim Raymond, Leo Baxendale, Martin Aitchison, Mick Anglo, Mike Dorey, Mike Hubbard, Mike McMahon, Mike Western, Nick Abadzis, Patrick Wright, Paul Trevillion, Ray Bailey, Rex Archer, Robert Ayton, Ron Embleton, Steven Appleby, Yvonne Hutton. Excerpt: Alan Moore (b. Northampton, 18 November 1953) started out in comics as a cartoonist in the underground idiom, drawing strips like "Anon E. Mouse" for Anon and "St. Pancras Panda" for the Back Street Bugle. His first professional strips were published in the late 1970s in the music magazines NME and Sounds, using the pseudonym "Curt Vile," as well as the daily strip "Maxwell the Magic Cat" in the Northampton Post, under the pseudonym "Jill de Ray" - the pseudonyms were necessary because he was also claiming unemployment benefit. Concluding that he wasn't a good or fast enough artist to make a living at it, he asked his friend Steve Moore for advice on writing scripts for comics. He started selling scripts to 2000 AD, mostly one-off "Future Shocks" and "Time Twisters," and back-up stories to Marvel UK's Doctor Who Weekly and Star Wars Weekly. His first series for 2000 AD was "Skizz," a British take on E.T. influenced by Alan Bleasdale, drawn by Jim Baikie. This was followed by "D. R. and Quinch," a comedy about a pair of alien juvenile delinquents expanded from a popular Time Twister, drawn by Alan D...
