At More Intelligent Life, a profile of Art Spiegelmen.
…Spiegelman explained his rationale for what is perhaps one of his most shocking drawings from the 1970s: a decapitated man getting fucked in the neck.
“I did the most vile comics I could possibly think of, because I thought that’s what underground comics were all about,” he said with an unapologetic shrug. He then admitted that Robert Crumb, a comic artist renowned for testing the limits of taste in his own drawings, banned him from his house in San Francisco in the 1960s. His wife was just too disturbed by that particular image.
The Weird World of Alan Moore at The Independent.
Moore, who describes himself as an anarchist, is also deeply immersed in the occult. He belongs to a group called The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, which performs “occult workings” – prose and poetry set to music. He is said to worship a Roman snake god called Glycon, and has a shrine in his home. He is currently working on a “grimoire”, or black-magic handbook, called The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic.
Alan Moore is now tabloid news. From the UK Daily Mail:
The 55-year-old author says he wants nothing to do with the film because his story, published in 1986, is not suited to the big screen. He said: ‘It was designed to exploit all the things that comic books can do and no other medium can.’
Go look: Neil Gaiman on The Colbert Report. Full broadcast available here.
