Portraits Of An Extraordinary Gentleman For His 70th Year

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For his 70th birthday, Smoky Man has revealed a sequel, Alan Moore: Portraits of an Extraordinary Gentleman.

In 2004 for his fiftieth birthday, Gary Spencer Millidge as Abiogenesis Press revealed Alan Moore: Portrait Of An Extraordinary Gentleman, a group of tributes to the person, principally in comedian e-book type. Contributors included Neil Gaiman, Will Eisner, Bill Sienkiewicz, Dave Gibbons, Denis Kitchen, David Lloyd, Jim Valentino, Sergio Toppi, Bryan Talbot, Steve Parkhouse, Mark Millar, Howard Cruse, James Kochalka, José Villarrubia, Sam Kieth, Dave Sim, Oscar Zarate, DJ Paul Gambaccini, and Darren Shan. I even contributed a web page.

In 2023 for his 70th birthday, Smoky Man of the Alan Moore World Blog has revealed a sequel, Alan Moore: Portraits of an Extraordinary Gentleman. With contributors together with Eduardo Risso, Gene Ha, Zander Cannon, Jacen Burrows, David Hitchcock, Dan McDaid, Werther Dell’Edera, Gary Spencer Millidge, Iain Sinclair , Peter Hogan, Paul Gravett, Russell Willis, John Coulthart, Danijel Žeželj,  Koom Kankesan, Hilary Barta, Hunt Emerson, and extra. A 150-page quantity containing quick essays, reminiscences and portraits. With 100% of the web income donated to the NGO Doctors Without Borders.

Here’s a little bit take a look at some of what’s contained inside:

From his introduction, Iain Sinclair writes “The miraculous way he blends reminiscence with a trawl of local history and topography, anecdote with imagination, with prophesy. The weirdness of suburbia with ritual magic. This is the perfect demonstration of a multiverse thesis: domestic comedy, moon worship, esoteric studies, golf course curation, cacti fancying bleeds into fictive projections by Algernon Blackwood. Into military detritus. Into Bronze Age burial mounds. Researching a book on the Soho photographer John Deakin and reaching the point where I lost track of what was documentary and what was fiction and how I could weave these warring elements together, I received a package from Alan. It was precisely what I needed. A copy of that rare example of English surrealism by the poet David Gascoyne: Man’s Life Is This Meat. Gascoyne makes a cameo appearance in Alan’s latest London venture. And his image, stolen by Deakin, sits on my desk. The title was random, gleaned from a scrap of promotional paper witnessed by the poet. At the sound of heaven cracking, stars collide… In vain, the firmament postpones its doom.’  Alan Moore: seventy years to heaven! Long may the thing that is out there, hovering over your inland sea, continue to write you.” – lain Sinclair, July 2023

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