“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”

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This reads as a rejection of neat categories. Life is presented as mixed and unruly, carrying dread, desire, humor and fantasy all at once, with no need to separate them into tidy shelves. It lands when someone is trying to make sense of a messy stretch of living and needs a way to name its contradictions without smoothing them over.

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About Alan Moore

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Alan Moore is an English author best known for his work in comics. His name is tied to titles including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Ballad of Halo Jones, Swamp Thing, Batman: The Killing Joke, Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? and From Hell. He is widely regarded by peers and critics as one of the strongest comic book writers in the English language. Moore has also used several pseudonyms, including Curt Vile, Jill de Ray, Brilburn Logue and Translucia Baboon, and some reprints have been credited to The Original Writer at his request.

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Books by Alan Moore

Watchmen

1987

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V for Vendetta

1988

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From hell

1991

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Batman

1988

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The Absolute League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

2012

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