Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman

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Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman is a tribute to comics creator Alan Moore edited by Gary Spencer Millidge and Smoky Man and published by Abiogenesis Press in May 2003. Published to raise awareness and funds for charity, its first printing swiftly sold out, with a second, "corrected" published in November 2003.

It was co-published with Black Velvet Editrice of Italy and raised over $36,000 for

In January 2007, Abiogenesis Press declared the second printing sold out also, with no plans for a further English printing.^[1]

Contents

It contains acknowledgments, academic essays, cartoons and reminiscences by 145 artists and writers.

Notable contributors include Moore's daughters

(A complete list can be found on Millidge's website.[2])

Highlights include:

• A 12-page comics biography (a "biographic") of Moore by Millidge.
• A League of Extraordinary Gentlemen drawing by Adam Hughes
• "Hungry is the Heart" (with Dame Darcy)
• An interview with Moore conducted by Omar Martini
• Steve Bissette
  's reminiscences about his collaborations and fallout with Moore
• "Correspondence:
  Cerebus
  #217-220)

Publication

• Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman, by Gary Spencer Millidge and Smoky Man (ed.s), 352pp (Abiogenesis, Dec 2003)
  ISBN 978-0-946790-06-7

The book was nominated for the 2003 Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction.

Notes

References

• Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)

External links

• Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman at WorldCat
• Alan Moore: Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman at the Open Library