Monday, January 29, 2007

Alan Moore's Writing, Unlike Mine

Eddie Campbell is a comics artist (and writer). He's most well known for having illustrated From Hell, written by Alan Moore (of Watchmen and V for Vendetta fame among many others). Eddie has a blog and he often posts pages from From Hell with the associated script.

Moore is famous for writing very long very detailed scripts; often over 1,000 words describing each page, (apparently except during tax season). I came across this and just loved it: "In another writer's script you will read that 'it is raining', but In Alan Moore's you may read that the precipitation falls 'like morse code for some huge, depressing Russian novel'."

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