In 1988 he received a World Fantasy Award for Best Novella for A Hypothetical Lizard, which Avatar Press published in 2004 as a comics adaption by Antony Johnston. Moore also won two International Horror Guild Awards in the category Graphic Story/Illustrated Narrative (in 1995 with Eddie Campbell for From Hell and in 2003 with Kevin O'Neill for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen). [118] Moore received a Bram Stoker Award in the category Best Illustrated Narrative for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in 2000, then again in 2012 for Neonomicon as Best Graphic Novel. Alan Moore statement for Momentum in Northamptonshire". Momentum Northants. Archived from the original on 10 December 2016 . Retrieved 19 September 2016. Khoury, George (1 September 2001). Kimota!: The Miracleman Companion. Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing. ISBN 978-1-893905-11-5. Campbell, Eddie( w, a). Alec: How to be an Artist,p.108/9(1 August 2001). Top Shelf Productions, ISBN 978-0-9577896-3-0. "The last straw may well go down as apocryphal." The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory is that conspiracy theorists actually believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is chaotic. The truth is, that it is not the Jewish banking conspiracy or the grey aliens or the 12-foot reptiloids from another dimension that are in control. The truth is more frightening, nobody is in control. The world is rudderless.

Ross, Jonathan (30 July 2005). "In Conversation With Alan Moore". The Idler Magazine. Archived from the original on 1 May 2013 . Retrieved 1 January 2013. Leah Moore discusses the award-winning Electricomics". Pipedream Comics. 11 January 2016. Archived from the original on 3 May 2016. Grossman, Lev; Lacayo, Richard (16 October 2005). "All-Time 100 Novels". Time. Archived from the original on 24 May 2009 . Retrieved 23 April 2010.V for Vendetta's Press Conference". Newsarama. 2005. Archived from the original on 12 October 2007 . Retrieved 7 January 2006.

In 2010 Moore began publishing a series of comics set in the H. P. Lovecraft universe returning to an earlier interest in the work and worlds of the author. Avatar Press had previously published Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths, a compilation of unpublished scripts and strips and comic adaptations of previously published poems by Moore themed around or based upon Lovecraft's work in 2003, followed by the two part The Courtyard adapted from a previously published Lovecraftian Moore short story. The horror mini-series Neonomicon, the first of Moore's original comic works released by Avatar Press, were illustrated by Jacen Burrows who had also illustrated the earlier adaptations, and the fourth and final issue was released in January 2011. [71] Scoles, Steve (8 November 2006). "Writer drawn into Simpsons show". Northants Evening Telegraph. Archived from the original on 15 June 2007 . Retrieved 7 February 2007. The other series that Moore began for Taboo was Lost Girls, which he described as a work of intelligent "pornography". [56] Illustrated by Melinda Gebbie, with whom Moore subsequently entered into a relationship, it was set in 1913, where Alice from Alice in Wonderland, Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz and Wendy from Peter Pan – who are each of a different age and class – all meet in a European hotel and regale each other with tales of their sexual encounters. [3] :49–50 With the work, Moore wanted to attempt something innovative in comics, and believed that creating comics pornography was a way of achieving this. He remarked that "I had a lot of different ideas as to how it might be possible to do an up-front sexual comic strip and to do it in a way that would remove a lot of what I saw were the problems with pornography in general. That it's mostly ugly, it's mostly boring, it's not inventive – it has no standards." [2] :154–155 Like From Hell, Lost Girls outlasted Taboo, and a few subsequent instalments were published erratically until the work was finished and a complete edition published in 2006. Moore has been nominated for the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Awards several times, winning for Favorite Writer in 1985, 1986, 1987, 1999, and 2000. He won the CBG Fan Award for Favorite Comic Book Story ( Watchmen) in 1987 and Favorite Original Graphic Novel or Album ( Batman: The Killing Joke with Brian Bolland) in 1988. [108] Manning "1980s" in Dolan, p. 220: "In 'Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?', a two-part story written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Curt Swan, the adventures of the Silver Age Superman came to a dramatic close."Since his teenage years Moore has had long hair, and since early adulthood has also had a beard. He has taken to wearing a number of large rings on his hands, leading him to be described as a "cross between Hagrid and Danny from Withnail and I" who could be easily mistaken for "the village eccentric". [100] Born and raised in Northampton, he continues to live in the town, and used its history as a basis for his novels Voice of the Fire and Jerusalem. His "unassuming terraced" Northampton home was described by an interviewer in 2001 as "something like an occult bookshop under permanent renovation, with records, videos, magical artefacts and comic-book figurines strewn among shelves of mystical tomes and piles of paper. The bathroom, with blue-and-gold décor and a generous sunken tub, is palatial; the rest of the house has possibly never seen a vacuum cleaner. This is clearly a man who spends little time on the material plane." [100] He likes to live in his home town, feeling that it affords him a level of obscurity that he enjoys, remarking that "I never signed up to be a celebrity." [62] He has spoken in praise of the town's former Radical MP, Charles Bradlaugh at the annual commemoration. He is also a vegetarian. [134]

Moore took as his primary deity the ancient Roman snake god Glycon, who was the centre of a cult founded by a prophet known as Alexander of Abonoteichus, and according to Alexander's critic Lucian, the god itself was merely a puppet, something Moore accepts, considering him to be a "complete hoax", [6] [137] but dismisses as irrelevant. According to Pagan Studies scholar Ethan Doyle-White, "The very fact that Glycon was probably one big hoax was enough to convince Moore to devote himself to the scaly lord, for, as Moore maintains, the imagination is just as real as reality." [138] Moore has an altar to Glycon at his home. [100] Friends and hobbies [ edit ]From Hell was partly inspired by the title of Douglas Adams' novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, in that it explores the notion that to solve a crime holistically, one would need to solve the entire society in which it occurred. [4] Lamont, Tom (26 November 2011). "Alan Moore – meet the man behind the protest mask". The Observer. UK. Archived from the original on 5 December 2013 . Retrieved 12 December 2011.

I will always love and adore the comics medium but the comics industry and all of the stuff attached to it just became unbearable...Hundreds of thousands of adults [are] lining up to see characters and situations that had been created to entertain the 12-year-old boys – and it was always boys – of 50 years ago. I didn't really think that superheroes were adult fare. I think that this was a misunderstanding born of what happened in the 1980s – to which I must put my hand up to a considerable share of the blame, though it was not intentional – when things like Watchmen were first appearing. There were an awful lot of headlines saying 'Comics Have Grown Up'. I tend to think that, no, comics hadn't grown up. There were a few titles that were more adult than people were used to. But the majority of comics titles were pretty much the same as they'd ever been. It wasn’t comics growing up. I think it was more comics meeting the emotional age of the audience coming the other way." [127] [128] A planned future project is an occult textbook known as The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic, written with Steve Moore. It will be published by Top Shelf in "the future". [74] In September 2016, he published a novel called Jerusalem, which is also set in Northampton. [75] [76]Moore began producing further stories for DC Comics, including a two-part story for Vigilante, which dealt with domestic abuse. He was eventually given the chance to write a story for one of DC's best-known superheroes, Superman, entitled " For the Man Who Has Everything", which was illustrated by Dave Gibbons and published in 1985. [34] In this story, Wonder Woman, Batman, and Robin visit Superman on his birthday, only to find that he has been overcome by an alien organism and is hallucinating about his heart's desire. [3] :37 He followed this with another Superman story, " Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?", which was published in 1986. Illustrated by Curt Swan, it was designed as the last Superman story in the pre- Crisis on Infinite Earths DC Universe. [35] [36] The threat of nuclear war during the Cold War influenced the setting and tone of Watchmen. Barsanti, Sam (18 July 2019). "Alan Moore's Retirement from Comics Is Now Apparently Official". The A.V. Club . Retrieved 18 July 2019. Alan Moore interview with LeftLion magazine". 7 August 2012. Archived from the original on 11 August 2012 . Retrieved 17 August 2023. What's the point of arts and humanities?". Arts-emergency.org. n.d. Archived from the original on 5 April 2014 . Retrieved 5 April 2014. Daniels, Les (1995). DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes. Bulfinch Press. p.196. ISBN 0-8212-2076-4.