Alexander Sorondo at The Metropolitan Review:
Alan Moore is 72 years old now. Since the 1980s, he’s been celebrated as the greatest writer in comics history. But he’s done with all that. Full-time novelist now. Finally. Spends his days at home just writing, reading, and smoking “frightening,” “staggering,” “saturating” amounts of weed.
“I use it to work,” as he told Alex Musson. “Always have done.”
Except these days he does it without the weekly deadlines, the phone always ringing, questions and chitchat with illustrators, coauthors, publishers, press — none of it.
Life of a novelist now. Solitude.
And he’s embarked on something new: a five-novel series called The Long London. It might not seem like a huge venture, given that Book One, The Great When (2024), reads as a fairly straightforward fantasy story, just about 300 pages, self-contained, quick-moving, irreverent.
But it marks a big change for Moore.
There’s no illustrator for this series. No coauthor. No photos to pair with the text.
More here.
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