Marvelman (later retitled Miracleman for legal reasons) was a series that originally had been published in Britain from 1954 through to 1963, based largely upon the American comic Captain Marvel. Illustration of the comic was begun by Bill Sienkiewicz, who left the series after only two issues in 1990, and despite plans that his assistant, Al Columbia, would replace him, it never occurred and the series remained unfinished. The same year marked a move by Moore back to the mainstream comics industry and back to writing superhero comics. During the September 11 attacks, Heather Graham was flying to New York City for a number of meetings with film directors when she saw smoke coming out of the World Trade Center.

Abberline consults Sir William Gull, a physician to the royal family, drawing on his experience and knowledge of medicine. During its initial serialization, From Hell received the 1996 International Horror Guild Award for Graphic Story/illustrated Narrative, [16] and the 1997 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Story. Not that I'm recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of – it hammered home to me that reality was not a fixed thing. Upon resurrecting Marvelman, Moore "took a kitsch children's character and placed him within the real world of 1982".

The series will move from the “shell-shocked and unravelled” London of 1949 to “a version of London just beyond our knowledge”, encompassing murder, magic and madness. Gull boasts to Abberline that he will be remembered in history for giving "birth to the 20th century". His own career in comics – The Ballad of Halo Jones, Swamp Thing, Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and From Hell are just the highlights – is too well documented, and too long past, to bear much rehashing here.

The other series that Moore began for Taboo was Lost Girls, which he described as a work of intelligent "pornography". I’ve disowned it now [another casualty of his falling out with DC], but it was, and is, a very good work. The disparity in height between Hawthorne and the much shorter Holm forced some of the scenes to be altered. Early on, Gull's friend James Hinton discusses his son Howard's theory of the "fourth dimension", which proposes that time is a spatial dimension.That said, always be cautious when downloading files from the internet, especially from sites external to Anna’s Archive. Eventually, it received an R rating due to "strong violence/gore, sexuality, language and drug content". Although Moore's work numbered amongst the most popular strips to appear in 2000 AD, Moore himself became increasingly concerned at the lack of creator's rights in British comics. In 2012, Moore claimed that he had sold the rights to these two works simply for the money; he did not expect the films ever to be made. In 2003, a documentary about him was made by Shadowsnake Films, titled The Mindscape of Alan Moore, which was later released on DVD.

I wasn't interested in Hollywood," and demanded that DC Comics force Warner Bros to issue a public retraction and apology for Silver's "blatant lies". In April 2016, Moore began curating a comic book anthology series entitled Cinema Purgatorio published by Avatar Press, each issue opening with a story written by Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill.The series was published in ten volumes between 1991 and 1996, and an appendix, From Hell: The Dance of the Gull-catchers, was published in 1998. In 2006, the complete edition of Lost Girls was published, as a slipcased set of three hardcover volumes.