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Alan Moore’s low-budget home movie

Look up the word "iconoclasm" in the dictionary, and you're likely to find a picture of Alan Moore. One of the U.K.'s most successful writers, Moore has been mythologized since making a splash with his ... Read More »

December 17, 2012 | Filed under: Authors

Watchmen and Canadian zombies at the box office

By Steven W. Beattie

To no one's surprise, Watchmen, Zack Snyder's noisy, bloated, and obnoxious adaptation of the graphic novel co-written by Dave Gibbons (according to the film's credits; writer Alan Moore's name doesn't appear anywhere in relation to ... Read More »

March 9, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Capes and tights save publishing

By Steven W. Beattie

Spider-Man has already saved incoming president Barack Obama; he's now poised to save the entire publishing industry. In the midst of the gigantic economic clusterfuck global financial meltdown at the end of 2008, one segment ... Read More »

January 12, 2009 | Filed under: Industry news

Reissue! Repackage! Re-evaluate the words!

By Leigh Anne Williams

On the Book Standard website, Bookslut's Jessa Crispin looks at one of the fond traditions of the holiday season -- publishers trying to sell us things we already have. She's referring to new deluxe editions ... Read More »

December 7, 2006 | Filed under: Bookselling

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Search Results by tag: Watchmen

Alan Moore’s low-budget home movie

Watchmen and Canadian zombies at the box office

Capes and tights save publishing

Reissue! Repackage! Re-evaluate the words!

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