/lit/ - Literature

>>2316811

Probably loads of times. I don't know him personally. He was right about that League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie. It was complete pants.

OH FUCK YOU SODDING SODDERS, I'M AT IT AGAIN
SCRIBBLIN' WITH THAT OLD STYLE SWAG LIKE ITS 1810
MY DICK IS LIKE MY BEARD, CAUSE IT HANGS TO THE FLOOR,
THAT'S WHY THEY CALL ME FUCKING ALAN MOORE.
SEQUENTIAL ART, YOU GODDAMN TART, ITS THE PERFECT MEDIUM TO RIP YOUR MIND APART
ITS TIME TO GO, ITS TIME TO SPLIT, IF YOU MAKE A MOVIE ADAPTATION OF MY WORKS I GUARANTEE IT'LL BE SHIT.

>Translator or whatever keeps on rambling for 30 pages about how the author is the greatest writer in history

Who cares, I would put a bag over Emily Dickenson's head and then I promise you there'd be some real dickin', son.

The term "graphic novel" was something that was thought up in the '80s by marketing people and there was a guy called Bill Spicer who used to do a brilliant fanzine back in the sixties called Graphic Story Magazine. He came up with the term "graphic story". That's got something to recommend it, you know, I can see "graphic story" if you need it to call it something but the thing that happened in the mid-'80s was that there were a couple of things out there that you could just about call a novel. You could just about call Maus a novel, you could probably just about call Watchmen a novel, in terms of density, structure, size, scale, seriousness of theme, stuff like that. The problem is that "graphic novel" just came to mean "expensive comic book" and so what you'd get is people like DC Comics or Marvel comics - because "graphic novels" were ge tting some attention, they'd stick six issues of whatever worthless piece of crap they happened to be publishing lately under a glossy cover and call it The She-Hulk Graphic Novel, you know? It was that that I think tended to destroy any progress that comics might have made in the mid-'80s. The companies, the marketing people, who are not terribly bright individuals, they're not terribly creative, they don't really have the hang of - well, I mean, they really haven't got the hang of the 1970s yet, so the 21st century is a long way behind them and they think in very short term measures and consequently they were more or less to blame for destroying whatever kind of momentum the comic book picked up in the '80s by immediately using it predictably to sell a load of Batman, Spiderman shit.
Alan Moore

Neil was chatting to a publisher who became very awkward upon discovering he wrote comics. When he realized who Neil actually was he relaxed saying, "Ah, but you don't write comics. You write graphic novels." And Neil suddenly felt like a prostitute who had just been referred to a "lady of the night".
Anecdote about Neil Gaiman

Help here please. I have a PDF of Road Side Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky translated from Russian by Antonia W. Bouis. I can change it to html but I want the book. I really don't like PDF books. Thanks for any help. Should someone help me find this BOOK I will try to repay with an ebook or PDF book if I have it. Thanks for any help with this.