MemeMachineGo!

Some things in this world are predictable. Alan Moore gives an interview, LinkMachineGo links to it, and I lift it from there. Excerpts from an interview to appear in Eddie Campbell's Egomania:

Can you imagine anyone else being able to get a wonderfully accomplished artist to spend thirteen years drawing pornographic material for them, customised to demand; being able to declare himself a pornographer and have everyone take it as some bold new intellectual position; or even claiming against tax for high class scud-books like The Art of the Marquis Von Bayros as "reference material"? No. You can't. This is why I am a genius.

From the Times Online:

While the question “where do your ideas come from?” gets short shrift from most authors, to Moore it is “the only question worth asking.” Six years ago he was toying with the notion of “Idea Space”, a literal pool of shared concepts into which a correctly attuned artist could dip. Now he is beginning to map it.

“This planet has a physical geography with which we have already familiarised ourselves. But since the dawn of the first stories, there is a fictional geography, where the gods and demons live. We have created this big imaginary planet that is a counterpart to our own; and in some cases these places are more familiar to us than the real ones.”

Oh, I give up. I'm going to go subscribe to The Third Alternative to get their 2-part interview with Moore in issues 30-31, and my friend John Aegard's story in issue 31.