Alan Moore's Writing For Comics

Alan Moore's essay on how to write comics is not a groundbreaking guide on how to write like him. Rather, it's a passionate argument for being conscious of the choices you make when writing. He's thoughts on idea, plot, structure and so on are not new, but it's interesting to hear his perspective on it all, and see him analyze his own works. He is a marvelous writer, and the essay ends up being almost more entertaining than it is educational. The highlights are probably when he writes about what makes the comic medium different from writing for movies, and writing novels/short stories. This edition ends with an afterword written many years later, where he reflects and expands on his essay. That addition came 13 years ago. I hope he will revisit it once again.

This is an essay by Moore that doesn't go into much detail, illustrated strictly functionally by Burrows. One would have expected more, but then, not from Avatar Press.