![]() ![]() Great British Holiday.Īlan Moore tells a hilarious story about a disastrous recent holiday he took with his wife, Melinda Gebbie, to the British seaside town of Yarmouth, after he made the mistake of telling her about his childhood holidays there that brought him joy, only to turn up and immediately become miserable at it all. What We Can Know About Thunderman is divided into chapters with different voices, no omniscient narrator and includes excerpts from media like fanzines. "If I was going to badmouth the comics industry, I felt I had to talk about why people loved to read these comics." says Alan Moore, emphasising that it's not just bitterness."This is a neurological addiction brought about by chest emblems and colour combinations." Lee mentions a character in the book talking about comics readers being like drug addicts. You think you might have been clued in when he says that he achieved some catharsis from writing the What We Can Know About Thunderman story and now has "less dark mutterings" about his time in comics, when in the bath. So when Alan Moore talks to Stewart Lee about "The suppurating boil of my comics career". I would like you to remember that Alan Moore had a very dry self-deprecatory sense of humour, and often says over-the-top statements which are meant to be mockingly self-critical and ironic, and people who take them as straight text and quote them in that fashion are generally bad actors of one stripe or other. The suppurating boil of my comics career. Here are a few highlights – they won't be a substitute for the real thing of course. Lee, who first interviewed Alan Moore for BBC's Radio 4's Chain Reaction back in the day, and has collaborated on a number of projects over the years, including Dodgem Logic and Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle. One with the Guardian newspaper with Stewart Lee, ran yesterday. ![]() There are also a number of online talks arranged. ![]()
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