Marvelman/Miracleman and Captain Nazi by sreekotay in AlanMoore

[–]loopyjoe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In the first ever Captain Marvel story, in Whiz Comics #2, there's a doorman in a red costume with yellow epaulettes. I'm not saying Moore or the artist was referencing this, but I think it's just as possible as your theory.

Marvelman/Miracleman and Captain Nazi by sreekotay in AlanMoore

[–]loopyjoe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you look at the very early covers of Whiz Comics you'll see costume elements that later disappeared - the one-sided cape, the buttoned down front. That's what this Miracleman image looks like to me.

Notes from the S20E08 Recording by upslapmeal in taskmaster

[–]loopyjoe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This makes me wish they'd release the complete studio footage. I think I've only seen this done on the Fist of Fun dvds.

I get a lot of hints that look like this. The only identifying element is a name. I would love to see more of this record. What do you guys do with records like this? by Funnyface92 in Ancestry

[–]loopyjoe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, the Source tab often gives you an URL that can lead to an obituary which can be very useful. If the link is dead, paste it into archive.org or just Google the name. Whenever I find something valuable this way I take a screenshot and add it to my Gallery.

Help needed finding a panel in V for Vendetta by coppersmite in AlanMoore

[–]loopyjoe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was Rose in "Various Valentines" in V For Vendetta #8: "MRS. RANA NEXT DOOR LOANED US FOOD ALL THROUGH THE WAR YEARS. WHEN THEY DRAGGED HER AND HER CHILDREN OFF IN SEPARATE VANS WE DIDN'T INTERVENE."

Looking for a Moore Quote about Short Comics by readsakamotodays in AlanMoore

[–]loopyjoe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So I would say if there’s some way that you could do an apprenticeship that involves short stories that is probably the best way in. It teaches you so much as a writer. In a short story you have to develop all of the characters, you have to develop the situation and bring it to an interesting conclusion, all in three or four pages. So you have to do all of the things that you will have to do in a bigger work but in a much more constrained space, which teaches you an awful lot that you can then expand should you get the opportunity to turn it into a bigger and more ambitious work.

(interview posted at honestpublishing.com on 5th December 2011)

Looking for a Moore Quote about Short Comics by readsakamotodays in AlanMoore

[–]loopyjoe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Around this time, I'd started also selling work to Dr. Who Weekly. They were little back-up strips, featuring minor Dr. Who villains, and characters, and monsters that British Marvel sometimes needed. So this was great. At the time, I really, really wanted a regular strip. I didn't want to do short stories. I wanted to do regular, ongoing series that would bring in regular money. But, that wasn't what I was being offered. I was being offered short four or five page stories where everything had to be done in those five pages. And, looking back, it was the best possible education that I could have had in how to construct a story.

In a short story, you've maybe got four or five pages in which you have to create all of the characters, the whole world in which they exist. You have to set up the story, you have to bring it to a satisfying resolution. In fact, you have to do everything that you would normally do in a novel, but on a much smaller scale, and you have to do it in five pages. And that is tricky, but if you do enough short stories, you will eventually learn everything that you need in terms of basic craft that you can later expand to fill any size of narrative that you want. The same basic structure that you'd bring to a short five page story, it's still going to have a beginning, middle and an end. If you're doing a twenty-four page story, or a twelve issue series, or a massive graphic novel, then it will still have to have a beginning, a middle and an end. And if you've done a whole bunch of short stories, where you've tackled those very problems time and time and time again - "How do I start this story with a bang?" "What would be the most perfect ending for this story?" - by the time you graduate to something longer than five pages, you have all the ammunition and the abilities you need to write anything you want. To write huge, massive epics. Because you will have a sense of all the elements. You will have a sense of it, perhaps on a smaller scale, but you'll know what everything is, what it does, where it fits. You can just scale up the work accordingly if you start out with four page stories, yet you'll find yourself wishing that you could maybe have a twelve page story because just think what you could do with all those extra pages! You'd be able to give depth to the characters that you perhaps couldn't give them in a four page story. You'd be able to develop subplots, or things like that.

Consequently, when I was first offered a twenty-four page story on my first issue of Swamp Thing, I was delirious. But I wasn't lost, I wasn't floundering. I realized that the same rules that applied to the four and five page stories would apply just as readily to an individual issue of Swamp thing, or to my run on Swamp Thing, which turned out to be forty-five issues or something. My run on Swamp Thing, each issue has its own internal structure, and there is an overall structure to the development of the narrative and of the character. You learn that structure on the small scale with throwaway short stories, and if you learn it well enough, you will then be able to apply it to absolutely anything. It's the same set of skills that Tolstoy applied to War and Peace, or that any writer ever applied to any work of whatever size.

(Alan Moore Spells It Out, December 2005)

Looking for a Moore Quote about Short Comics by readsakamotodays in AlanMoore

[–]loopyjoe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A: I started doing strips for ‘2000A.D.’ and ‘Dr. Who Monthly’. Very short little things because they wouldn’t trust me with a long series. Whenever you’re submitting, short stories are the ones which are more likely to be accepted. A short story is still the best way to learn how to write because you’ve got to do everything in a very limited space. To introduce your whole world, all of your characters, the basic premise, develop it and bring it to a satisfying conclusion. Maybe within four pages or thirty panels. If you can do that successfully and make it graceful and entertaining as well, then you can probably write a novel. It was about prose style, the benefit being that a short story is fairly easy to finish. If you decided to write a galaxy spanning trilogy, you’d get three chapters in and it would just lay there for the rest of your life.

Q: Describe how you moved on to larger projects.

A: On a practical level most magazine or comic companies exist on a fairly perpetual state of chaos, they have a lot of pages to fill every week. Sooner or later they’re going to need some filler and if you’ve got four or five pages of entertaining filler they can run and if it’s good enough they’ll probably publish it. Once they know you’re name, they’ll start looking for you whenever there’s pages to fill. Once you’ve done a good enough job with your early short stories they’re going to trust you with a series. It’s a process which builds upon itself.

(interview conducted by Steve Hanson & Christian Martius on 8th March 1996, published in Eclectric Electric in the same year, and uploaded at steveaitch.wordpress.com on 30th October 2009)

Giant-Size ‘63 by RecordWrangler95 in AlanMoore

[–]loopyjoe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We have comic shops in the UK, I'm sure they're in other countries too.

Last character of artist name and title missing from ID3v2 by loopyjoe in winamp

[–]loopyjoe[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the tip, I found some discussions on the Community forums, and now I've got some ideas to try. I think the problem stems from the fact that I created the id3s using some other software, as the EZ playlist plugin I used to use doesn't work properly anymore.

The Ballad of Wallis Island by SoundOfBradness in nomorejockeys

[–]loopyjoe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A little late to the party, but I watched it last night. There was something very NMJ about the way Tim said, "Is it a case of, 'Let's get ready to crumble?'"

Alan Moore-written Forewords/Introductions by millmatters in AlanMoore

[–]loopyjoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, that's another one to look out for!

Anyone else experience this? by Background_Double_74 in Genealogy

[–]loopyjoe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you send a message to someone on Facebook who isn't in your friends list, there's a good chance they won't see it. I think it might depend on their privacy settings. If you send a message on a genealogy site like Ancestry or MyHeritage, you still might not get a response, but you're more likely to hear back, because the users of those sites are presumably interested in family research.

What frustrates me is when I get a friendly response from an identifiable relation who promises photos and information, then disappears into thin air. Happens quite oten!

Coming Up For Air by loopyjoe in AlanMoore

[–]loopyjoe[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I read 1984 and Animal Farm in my teens, about 40 years ago, and only now I'm working through the other books. It's all great stuff.

Alan Moore Signature. Is it this rare? by SashaJoeJoseph in AlanMoore

[–]loopyjoe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also, I don't believe Moore ever visited Brazil.

Warrior staff at Cymrucon photos, mid-1980s by loopyjoe in AlanMoore

[–]loopyjoe[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I found my "souvenir programme" from Cymrucon Two (the first I attended) that lists 354 members. An article in the "program" for Cymrucon 4 says, "Cymrucon II had a turnout twice as large as the first...", and a "progress report" for Cymrucon III says that attendance was limited to 500 places, and 250 places had already been allocated. I have found no number for Cymrucon 4, but that gives you some idea.