Alan Moore is an English writer widely regarded as the best and most influential writer in the history of comics. His seminal works include From Hell and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. He is also the author of the bestselling Jerusalem. He was born in Northampton, and has lived there ever since.
One of the great fiction minds of his generation * Rolling Stone * The king of comics * Guardian * Moore makes the parochial universal, the mundane sublime and the temporal neverending * Financial Times * His bighearted passion for his people ... and the whole monstrous endeavour of the human condition is infectious. I'm not sure there's a God, but I thank Her for Alan Moore * Entertainment Weekly *