Now 62 years old, Moore is on the very short list of people responsible for why mainstream audiences - and corporations - treat superheroes as very serious stuff.ĭespite his status as a comic-book genius, Moore has disavowed some of the genre work - along with its Hollywood adaptations - that made him famous because of what he sees as the shady business practices and shallow creativity of corporate comic-book publishers and the studios behind the characters’ onscreen incarnations.
In emotionally and intellectually complex masterpieces of genre deconstruction like his work on Watchmen, Batman: The Killing Joke, and Swamp Thing, the lifelong resident of Northampton, England, showed how all of these crime-fighters running around in capes and masks could transcend simple entertainment and instead function as some of our most culturally potent myths. With his legendary run of comic-book writing in the 1980s, writer Alan Moore changed the way we think about superheroes.
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