Moore

March 16th, 2006 by Hennessy

The Beat interviews Alan Moore and as you can expect he has some very pointed things to say about the American comic industry, V For Vendetta, and he talks about his upcoming novel.

“The Beat: But, Alan, isn’t that throwing out the baby with the bathwater?

Moore: Well, I don’t own the baby anymore, Heidi! The baby is one I put a great deal of love into, a great deal of passion and then during a drunken night it turned out that I’d sold it to the gypsies and they had turned out my baby into a life of prostitution. Occasionally they would send me increasingly glossy and well-produced pictures of my child as she now was, and they would very, very kindly send me a cut of the earnings. This may sound melodramatic, but I’ve been writing for 25 years and I think that the passion with which I write is probably evident—it’s not faked. I really do feel intensely passionate about nearly everything I write. Obviously, it’s going to vary, but I try to be passionate about everything I write. In some cases I succeed. V for Vendetta was one of those cases. It’s that—I mean for 20 years since then, it’s been a kind of a dull ache that the regular paychecks of our cut of the money don’t really do an awful lot to assuage.”