Moore talked about his relationship with Pekar and how he helped a Kickstarter campaign to fund a statue for Pekar here.
Alan Moore working for Rob Liefeld? One of the unlikeliest combinations in comics, and yet, for a short but prolific time, they made it Awesome.
Welcome
Having gathered quite a bit of information about Moore's Supreme and Awesome runs, I decided to create a home for the forgotten Awesome. Over the course of a year, I put it all together here.
Each week I did a main "Weekly Reading" post that was a read-through of that issue. I followed that up with a couple of other posts about topics from that Weekly Reading or whatever else I came up with to talk about. You'll find the lost Youngbloods in the Youngblood section and the fan-edit of the last Supreme in After Awesome.
Below is the archive of posts broken up by book. Thanks for checking the site out!
Book 1: Supreme: The Story of the Year
Book 1: Judgment Day
Book 3: Supreme: The Return
Book 4: Youngblood
Book 5: Glory
Book 6: After Awesome
Book 7: 1963
Book 8: Night Raven
Book 9: A Small Killing
Monday, December 9, 2019
Alan Moore as artist for Harvey Pekar's American Splendor
I always got the sense that a part of Moore wanted to be Robert Crumb and do underground comics and the superhero stuff kind of came as a lucrative surprise. In 1990 he followed in R. Crumb's footsteps and did this page of artwork for Harvey Pekar's American Splendor:
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